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Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis

At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world’s most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...

Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Terri Gross savages Jimmy Wales

Did anyone listen to Terry Gross interview with Jimmy "Free Culture" Wales last week on NPRs Fresh Air? Was it just my wishful thinking, or was the normally all-too-tolerant Terry really really appalled by Jimmy and his Wikipedia menagerie of idiot editors and idiotic information? Its definitely worth...

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Blog posts 2007-04-24

Edit-job from Jimmy Wales (a non-story)

Edit-job from Jimmy Wales (a non-story)in light of the recent Wikipedia having an article ....... on the death of Sinbad it would seem the new media types are just as guilty of making up stories.

Tags: Wiki, Jimmy Wales

Discussion threads 2007-03-19

Edit-job from Jimmy Wales (a non-story)

Its not often that one is lucky enough to get a free edit-job from Jimmy Wales. But I just got one for my piece last week about Jimmy-gone-wild in Toyko. Unfortunately, however, some of my "facts" were wrong and Jimmy hadnt gone quite as wild as I originally reported....

Tags: Wiki, Jimmy Wales, media

Blog posts 2007-03-18

Jimmy Wales is a super-duper rocket scientist

Jimmy Wales is a super-duper rocket scientistNo rocket scientists, but...I heard that Jimmy has hired someone from Kentucky to be the lead developer on Jimbo's Jumbo Engine. His name is Ryan, and he has a PhD in computer science from Stanford and a another PhD in physics from Harvard.

Tags: Jimmy Wales, His-Name

Discussion threads 2007-03-10

Jimmy Wales is a super-duper rocket scientist

If Jimmy Wales didnt exist, silly satiricists like myself would have to invent him.Yesterday, I promised myself that I wouldnt write any more about Jimmy Wales this week. I dont want you thinking that Im obsessed with him. After all, there is other news out there. AT&T are jumping out...

Tags: SEARCH, Wiki, Jimmy Wales, Wikia

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Wikidentity

Its Saturday, so it must be time for another Wikiscandal. Jimmy Wales has gotten caught with his fingers in the identity till again. This time its concerns "Essjay", one of the Wikipedia activists interviewed last July by Stacy Schiff in a New Yorker piece ominously entitled "Know It All". Essjay...

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Blog posts 2007-03-03

Wikis work because they're fun

Jimmy Wales says it's not about saving the worldWikipedia's founder says many volunteers in the wiki world are there for the fun, challenge, community and communication.

Tags: Wiki, Jimmy Wales

Videos 2007-01-18

Wales riding the cost train toward zero

Jimmy Wales is at it again.Through his for-profit company, Wikia, the founder of Wikipedia has launched a free hosting service called OpenServing. "Its based on Wiki software and can be sponsored," he said. "The first package were offering is a modified version of MediaWiki, which we bought. We intend to...

Tags: management, business models, publishing, General, mass market, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-01-04

Jimmy Wales finds Web 2.0's price point: Free

Jimmy Wales finds Web 2.0's price point: FreeWetPaint is free, tooWetpaint is a free and very user-friendly platform...but they do keep the ad revenue.

Tags: Channel management, Wetpaint, Jimmy Wales, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2006-12-11

Jimmy Wales finds Web 2.0's price point: Free

Wanted: Computing services--storage, bandwidth, software and computing power. Price: Free. If I offered you that deal your first response would be: "Whats the catch?" Amazon is trying to charge for cloud computing services. Others are too. Now here comes Wikia and...

Tags: Wikia, Utility computing, Web Technology, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Additional Resources

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...

Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-24

What really happened to Wikipedia

Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikimedia

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Will Wikipedia fail?

Simply stated: according to cyberlaw professor Eric Goldman, Wikipedia will fail. According to Ars Technica, Goldman fancies Wikipedia, but thinks that the site contains the "seeds of its own destruction" -- and the online encyclopedia will need to choose between being "high quality" and "open" to survive....

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Editing Crowd Sourced Content: the Wikipedia Discussion

Best Buy, the retail box store and internet source for electronics, televisions, DVD players, home & car audio, computers, cameras, music, movies, software, games etc is at the cutting edge of modern online technologies and facilitating their use by as many purchase prospects as possible. The embedded...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-26

From grassroots to government: Looking for a FOSS friendly national CTO

Will the first national CTO embrace open source? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes so. In a piece on CNN's Web site, Wales and Andrea Weckerle argue that the first national CTO needs to commit to open source and open standards: For the same reason that all government publications...

Tags: CTO, F/OSS, Government, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-01-08

News to know: Windows 7; Twitter phishing; Apple; Floppies

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: The bell tolls for your magnetic media Robin Harris: Long-term personal data storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First reactions to Windows 7 ...

Tags: Floppy Disk, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Operating Systems, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Poll: Do you really use Wikipedia?

Poll: Do you really use Wikipedia?They really do need to fix the user interface for editing articles. THAT isthe biggest thing keeping some from contributing.Wikis are a PainMost Wikis are just too much of a pain in the neck to learn/edit. I don't have the time to learn yet another...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

If you don't think Wikipedia is a worthy resource, make it better

If you don't think Wikipedia is a worthy resource, make it betterReally, Wikipedia can be all that you use for quick assignments. Sure,for a full research paper, there should be other sources. But, kids can learn a whole lot more if they do not spend as long looking for information....

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS, worthy resource

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

News to know: Windows 7 Beta; Google; $2,000 PC; Gates & Seinfeld; iTunes 8 fix

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Secunia launches pay-as-you-go exploit shop Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC Gallery: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Apple Inc., Video, Beta, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple iTunes, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-12