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Jimmy Wales
Sex, Lies, And Wikipedia
By Jason Lee Miller - Tue, 03/04/2008 - 5:52pm. 2 comments
Before we get into this (and this is a guiltily delicious journey you may or may not decide to take), please consider what level of perfection you expect your Web icons—even the ones who refer to themselves as "spiritual leader"—to be on. While you're doing that, pretend he's not a Web icon, and decide what is forgivable in a regular (mortal) man.
Search Wikia Debuts To Mild Reviews
By David A. Utter - Mon, 01/07/2008 - 7:03am.
The ambitious project by Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, dubbed a Google challenger in search, elicited a tepid response from reviewers.
More from Scoble on the Facebook Situation
By Robert Scoble - Thu, 01/03/2008 - 11:26am.
I’m getting dozens of emails asking for my script. See, there’s a ton of people who WANT to be deleted from Facebook. So far Facebook has been denying them, saying it’s impossible to delete everything you’ve ever done from Facebook. Well, if you go over to Rodney Rumford’s blog you can see that’s totally hogwash. Facebook CAN totally delete you from Facebook IF IT WANTS!
Wikia Schmikia: Try Out These Sites
By David A. Utter - Thu, 01/03/2008 - 9:39am.
Jimmy Wales and Wikia Search may be getting all the press this week, but there are resources out there you may not know.
Jimmy Wales Unveils Facebook?
By Doug Caverly - Fri, 11/16/2007 - 5:13pm.
It seems like a sitcom gag in which a character, out of time and ideas, tries to promote an old product as a new one by scratching off a single letter. Instead, we’ve got Jimmy Wales, and the old/new product is none other than Facebook.
Wikipedia Gets Grub
By Doug Caverly - Mon, 07/30/2007 - 10:40am.
You may not have heard of Grub, but the Web crawler company was just acquired by Wikia. And now Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and co-founder of Wikia, thinks he may “change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers.”
Wikipedia To Make Experts Walk The Walk
By Jason Lee Miller - Thu, 03/08/2007 - 1:08pm.
Amid embarrassment over an academic fraud, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has announced that anyone claiming professional expertise in a subject would be required to provide proof of those credentials.
Jimmy Wales Wants To Go Tabloid
By David A. Utter - Tue, 02/13/2007 - 2:44pm.
His Wikia company launched three new projects where people can collaborate on topics in a community of like-minded, active users.
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