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Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News Twitter CEO and co-founder, Evan Williams and Wikimedia founder and co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, took second and third places respectively. October's highlights on silicon.com were all about... [09 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's next for Wikipedia and why the site needs geeks of all kinds. If you've ever... [05 Nov 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. Under Wales' guidance wikis are gaining in... [08 Oct 2009]
Wikia Search killed off in economic gloom
News Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia and driving force behind Wikia Search, fully expected the development of Wikia Search to be a "long-term project". With only 10,000 unique users a month over the past six... [01 Apr 2009]
Photos: The top tech Twitterers
Photo There's also plenty of tech entrepreneurs and evangelists, including chairman of Virgin Group Richard Branson, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.... [23 Mar 2009]
Wikipedia's Wales "absolutely" still on the payroll
News Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is "absolutely" not out of a job at the Wikimedia Foundation, according to the foundation's director of communications. Jimmy Wales,... [05 Jan 2009]
Exclusive: 2008 Agenda Setters revealed
News Also earning spots in the top 10 are previous Agenda Setters Jimmy Wales (Wiki Media founder), Mike Lynch (Autonomy founder and CEO) and Eric Schmidt (Google CEO). Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been voted... [07 Oct 2008]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, founder of Wiki Media - and creator of the popular and sometimes controversial user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia - is back on the Agenda Setters list after a year-long hiatus.... [07 Oct 2008]
Wikia Search goes live but results are "pretty bad"
News Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikia Search, said: "This site, which we have been working on for a long time now, represents the first draft of the future of search. Wikia Search has so far been criticised... [08 Jan 2008]
Wikia Search ready for launch
News Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on 7 January, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales. In an email sent to the Wikia Search mailing list on 24 December,... [03 Jan 2008]
Wikipedia's Wales hypes open-source search plan
News The concept is being promoted largely by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Jabber founder Jeremie Miller. Wales said in a statement: "Jeremie is a brilliant thinker and a natural fit... [01 May 2007]
Experts enlisted for Wikipedia spin-off
News Since early 2001, when Sanger helped get Wikipedia off the ground with co-founder Jimmy Wales, the service has become one of the most popular research tools on the web and one of its fastest-growing sites. [17 Oct 2006]
Microsoft's Ozzie named the top man in tech
News Not just a collection of the usual big names, the top 50 includes several individuals who were chosen for creating innovative websites and user-generated content such as: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales... [25 Sep 2006]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile It's an interesting testimony to Jimmy Wales' best-known creation that writing biographies such as this was a lot more difficult before Wikipedia came along. Active in the dot-com world since the... [25 Sep 2006]
Britannica bites back in Wikipedia row
News Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has long maintained that the site's accuracy is ensured through self-policing by its readers and contributors. Encyclopaedia Britannica has reopened the debate over how its... [27 Mar 2006]
