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Dec 12, 2019 · Listening to Jimmy Wales speak is a bit like reading a Wikipedia page: Sound bites are few, but the tone is fair and measured. ... Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Taking on Facebook and the ...
Nov 18, 2019 · The co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has unveiled a new social network that’s designed to go against the ad-funded models loved by Facebook, Google and Twitter. Perhaps not surprisingly ...
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Nov 14, 2019 · The platform aims to compete with Facebook and Twitter, except instead of funding it using advertising, Wales is taking a page from the Wikipedia playbook and financing it through user donations.
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Nov 18, 2019 · Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'. The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, says his new social network, WT:Social, now has more than 160,000 members. The platform says it will ...
Nov 16, 2019 · SAN FRANCISCO ( CBS Interactive) -- Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly rolled out a new social network that is intended to get right what Facebook and Twitter have so far been getting ...
Mar 7, 2012 · Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales says that the online encyclopedia is “very unlikely” to integrate Facebook’s Like button or other ways of sharing on the social network, despite it ...
Early life and education. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as August 8. His father, Jimmy Sr., was a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris Ann (née Dudley), and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning, a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales and his three ...
