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Voices (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Friday that the online encyclopedia aspires to be a higher-quality source of information but added that mainstream publications could learn from its disclaimers and community features. “Our goal is to make Wikipedia as high-quality as possible. Britannica or better quality is the goal,” he said during a question-and-answer session at the ad:tech conference...
Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
WSJ – “Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Friday that the online encyclopedia aspires to be a higher-quality source of information but added that mainstream publications could learn from its disclaimers and community features.”
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Founder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.
The Register (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Nokia Foundation rewards cult Foundation leader Jimmy Wales can add "Nokia Foundation scholarship" winner to his list of achievements, having received €10,000 for his sterling work as Maximum Leader of the Wiki.… What is your recession sales strategy?
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
HELSINKI, November 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Nokia Foundation has granted its 2009 award to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the free, multilingual encyclopedia. Wales was awarded for his contributions to the evolution of the World Wide Web as a participatory and truly democratic platform.
Digital Planet (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia; Informed by Mendeley; Google Wave for scientists; Muse Trek at the Louvre
PC World (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Wikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Wikia, a site that its founders liken to a Web version of a library — offering user-generated “books” of content about specific issues — is seeing “explosive growth” after some software recent changes. Jimmy Wales, the founder of the popular site Wikipedia, and who later co-founded Wikia, a for-profit version of Wikipedia that goes into more detail about specific...
Travolution Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
As you may well know by now, Google has announced a Social Search experiment on its official blog.It scans your various profiles (Google Reader, Gmail contacts, Twitter followers &c) and serves up 'trusted' results based on them. Kevin May, late of this parish, has given it a try.Previous social search experiments - such as Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's effort several years ago - have been more...
ITProPortal (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, has announced that he has entered into an agreement with MagCloud, the printing service of computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard’s that will let users create their own customised print magazines.
Jewish Internet Defense Force (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
(IsraelNN.com) The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, calls on Israelis to join the Internet-based project. Wales fields questions from INN TV about allegations of anti-Israel bias. See also: Is Wikipedia Biased Against Israel? More Wikipedia Antisemitism: Wikipedia Article Features Antisemitic Cartoon (Without Even Realizing It) Jimmy... [Read more....]
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
PC and printing heavyweight HP has inked a deal which allows members of the Wikia community access to print-on-demand services through MagCloud, a cloud service that automates magazine publishing. What this means is that users around the globe will be able to create magazines based on the content and images created by Wikia's more than 50,000 communities. According to HP, its on-demand publishing service...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age offers a portrait of an exclusive community of neo-Victorians living within a dizzying nanotech future. One of the charming quirks of the upper echelons: Reading the same news as other people in their social group—sometimes even on paper: He sat down at the kitchen table. Mrs. Hull was already marmalading his crumpet. As she laid out plates and silver, Hackworth...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The founder of Wikipedia has announced a new partnership with Hewlett-Packard's MagCloud printing service. Jimmy Wales says the deal will allow users to publish their own magazines using content from his for-profit company, Wikia. MagCloud allows users to... Sponsored Topics: Wikipedia - Jimmy Wales - Hewlett-Packard - MagCloud - Guild Wars
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Filed under: Business , Web services Most people have heard of Wikipedia, but Wikia (co-founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales) is a little bit less well-known. It's a collection of fan-based wikis where people can obsessively catalog info about sports teams, bands, movies, and all kinds of other pop culture material. The latest addition to Wikia is song lyrics , now that the company has purchased LyricWiki....
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