Tag: Jimmy Wales
Finally we have the word directly from Jimmy Wales via the Wikia Search mailing list I am on. This comes after the IRC comment from yesterday. Looks like the alpha is live now and the public launch in approximately two weeks.
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Re: [Search-l] private pre-alpha invites available
Ping me if you want one.... we're launched. 
I'm going to be letting people in slowly over the next few days and we are aiming for a January 7th public launch. We want to run over the system with help from people to complain about what is...
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"Amazon has nothing to do with this project. They are a valued investor in Wikia, but people are really speculating beyond the facts. This has nothing to do with A9, Amazon, etc."
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
Mr Wales has begun working on a search engine that exploits the same user-based technology as his open-access encyclopaedia, which was launched in 2003.
The project has been dubbed Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”.
Mr Wales told The Times that he was planning to develop a...
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Daniel Brandt found the examples of suspected plagiarism at
Wikipedia using a program he created to run a few sentences from about 12,000 articles against Google Inc.'s search engine. He removed matches in which another site appeared to be copying from Wikipedia, rather than the other way around, and examples in which material is in the public domain and was properly attributed.
Brandt ended with a list of 142 articles, which he brought to Wikipedia's attention.
The site's founder, Jimmy Wales, acknowledged that plagiarized passages do...
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Did you guys remember Jimbo's post from last week about the $100m dream:
Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license?
I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a position to make this happen.
http://web2.commongate....lion_Dream
The "wallet" is none other than Jason Calacanis, and "of course" is not his wallet but AOL's.
Calacanis now...
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Jimmy Wales recently asked the Wikipedia community to suggest useful works that could in theory be purchased and freed, assuming a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights. He went on to say that he has spoken with a person 'who is potentially in a position to make this happen.'
I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be purchased and freed.
Dream big. Imagine there existed a...
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Every day, millions of people find answers on Wikipedia to questions both trivial and serious. Jack Herrick found his business model there.
In 2004, Mr. Herrick acquired the how-to guide eHow.com, which featured articles written by paid freelance writers. Although the business made a profit, he realized that the revenue brought in by selling advertising would not support the extensive site he had in mind. “If the page were about how to get a mortgage, it would work,” he said. “But the idea was to be the how-to guide to...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection.
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