CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Basho Technologies today announced Wikia, Inc. has selected Riak, Basho's next-generation distributed data store, as the foundation for a new set of global services.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the sites Wikia Search project, a movement that attempted to create a community-led search engine.

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Conduit, a leading provider of website syndication solutions for web publishers, today announced that Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW), creators of the leading answer engine offering reference site Answers.com(TM) and community Q&A site WikiAnswers.com(TM), has selected Conduit to power a downloadable toolbar (http://answerscom.ourtoolbar.com) that offers one-point access to both sites, along with a link to the company's 1-Click Answers software tool.

Answers Corporation today announced that Answers.com has been named a 2008 Webware 100 Award Winner (http://www.webware.com/8301-13546_109-9913318-29.html), placing it among the 100 best Web 2.0 sites, services and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation on the web.