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Jimmy Wales plans "quieter life"

3 MAR 2008 — "Planning a quieter life," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Twittered on Sunday. Good luck with that , Jimbo! Even ... »
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Jimmy Wales bores crowd with stump speech in Norway

6 MAY 2008 — "Yesterday we went to see Jimmy Wales speak at the Nobel Peace Prize Center during the seminar 'How Free is the Internet.' ... »
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Jimmy Wales, "punk capitalist"?

15 JUL 2008 — In a new book, The Pirate's Dilemma , author Matt Mason holds up geek heroes like Linus Torvalds and Jimmy Wales as icons of "punk capitalism." Given Wales's abject failure to profit from Wikipedia or his follow-on venture, Wikia, I'd say Mason has that label half-right. ... »
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Jimmy Wales's founding fib

11 APR 2008 — Who founded Wikipedia? Jimmy Wales likes to tell third-world denizens he did. Here's a clip from IJsbrand van Veelen's new documentary The Truth According To Wikipedia featuring Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger. ... »
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Jimmy Wales flees Facebook

5 MAR 2008 — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been leaving Facebook groups at a prodigious rate over the past few days. Is it related to his recent relationship troubles or is he just cleaning house? ... »
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How to piss off Jimmy Wales

10 JUL 2008 — Watch Jimmy Wales's face as he's introduced in a segment for this morning's episode of Squawk Box on CNBC. ... »
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Jimmy Wales: "It's like being a regular rock star, except there's no sex"

5 MAR 2008 — "What's it like to be a famous guy on the Web?" Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell asked Jimmy Wales in an interview last year . "Being an Internet rock star is like being a regular rock star, except there's no sex and drugs," Wales replies. ... »
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Jimmy Wales no longer contributing to world's knowledge

14 AUG 2008 — Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales is committed to bringing the sum of all human knowledge to everybody on the planet. Except, that is, his Twitter updates , which he has just made "protected," so that only his 2,862 "friends" on the microblogging service can read them. ... »
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Jimmy Wales drops off the Time 100 list again

1 MAY 2008 — Safe to say that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's plan to take Canadian journalist Rachel Marsden to the Time 100 party are definitely off. Not only have Wales and Marsden broken up, but Time has, as we predicted , declined to return Wales to its list of the most influential people. ... »
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Jimmy Wales's estranged wife watches over his Wikia failure

3 JUN 2008 — Believers in the wisdom of crowds will tell you that wikis, those collections of anyone-can-edit Web pages, are resistant to vandalism. Not so Jimmy Wales's Wikia Search, an attempt to build a search engine along wiki lines, which he is once again touting, this time to Forbes . ... »

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