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29 August 2006

Jimmy Wales on TEDTalks

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)

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... The video provides some quite interesting insights on Web 2.0 communities and how they work. Insights on the economic aspects of business models are not provided in Mr. Wales talk. Still, the video is interesting for everybody in our field of interest.

Posted by: Florian Komm | 03 September 2006 at 05:46 PM

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