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Jimmy Wales

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Name: Jimmy Wales

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Group of Eight

G8 Opens Up to Your Community With G-everyone Meetups

Mashable is excited to announce G-everyone, a 24-hour digital convening that will unite local groups around the world to discuss the pressing issues addressed at the G8 Summit.Organized through Mashable’s Meetup Everywhere platform, G-everyone meetups ... [Published Mashable - May 17 2013]

Entities: Group of Eight, Meetup Inc, Joe Trippi, Mira Sorvino, Todd Park

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

Banks back Accelerate festival for high-growth firms

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and private bank Coutts have been confirmed as headline sponsors for Accelerate 2013, the inaugural festival for high-growth businesses taking place on 27 June in Liverpool.The event is set to bring together more than 1,000 ... [Published En the Web - May 17 2013]

Entities: Liverpool (United Kingdom), Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Jimmy Wales, United Kingdom

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Lily Cole debates the gift economy at the Cambridge Union

Cambridge graduate and supermodel Lily Cole last night explained the thinking behind her new altruistic social media venture at the Cambridge Union.BY Ellie Pithers | 17 May 2013Lily Cole was back on her old university stomping ground last night to debate ... [Published Telegraph - May 17 2013]

Entities: Lily Cole, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, Social Network, Supermodel

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 4 reports

Major banks back Britain's world-beating businesses

RBS and Coutts are backing the UK’s small business community by announcing their support of ACCELERATE 2013, the inaugural festival for high growth businesses, which is taking place in Liverpool on 27 June 2013.Gathering more than 1,000 entrepreneurs ... [Published Fresh Business Thinking - May 16 2013]

Entities: United Kingdom, Liverpool (United Kingdom), Entrepreneur, Andrew Haigh

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

Nexon Co Ltd

How Entertaining Should Education Be?

Jimmy Wales thinks dull lectures need to die. Ari Kohen pushes back :Wales asks, “why wouldn’t you have the most entertaining professor, the one with the proven track record of getting knowledge into people’s heads?” Is there evidence that the most entertaining ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 15 2013]

Entities: Jimmy Wales, Education, Nexon Co Ltd, Teaching

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Lily Cole brings new social network impossible.com to Cambridge students

Model, actress and King’s College alumna Lily Cole is in Cambridge today and tomorrow to present to Cambridge students a new “gift economy” social networking concept.Backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, *impossible* will first run as a closed beta ... [Published University of Cambridge - May 15 2013]

Entities: Lily Cole, Social Network, Jimmy Wales

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

University of Cambridge

Lily Cole launches gift economy app and website for Cambridge University students

:39 PMWritten bySupermodel and actress Lily Cole is launching an app and website in the city this week which will be accessible exclusively by Cambridge students. The King?s College alumnus has masterminded Impossible.com, a social network which invites ... [Published Cambridge News - May 14 2013]

Entities: Lily Cole, University of Cambridge, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

For and Against: Are conventional lectures outdated?

Following Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’ claim that lectures will die as more university courses move online, Jonny B Goode and Chris Williams assess whether this move would be a positive thing ... [Published Gair Rhydd - May 14 2013]

Entities: Chris Williams, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Should university students use Wikipedia?

Most academics look down on the open source encyclopedia, but does it really hinder students' studies? It goes without saying that students use Wikipedia extensively, probably more than any other social group. Although the website's founder Jimmy Wales ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]

Entities: Wikipedia, Open Source, Yochai Benkler, Jimmy Wales

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 2 reports

Jimmy Wales Is A Game Of Thrones Fan, But Not A Fan Of Its Distribution

Get the WebProNews Newsletter:Like many people on the Internet, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is a fan of Game of Thrones. He’s not the biggest fan of how the show is distributed, however.Wales is frequently active on Quora, where someone asked him if ... [Published WebProNews - May 10 2013]

Entities: Jimmy Wales, Game of Thrones, Quora Inc, Home Box Office Inc

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 3 reports

Business News: Accelerate 2013 running order unveiled

THE full running order for Accelerate 2013 has been unveiled, with the UK’s first festival for fast-growth businesses set to be headlined by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.More than 1,000 delegates are expected at the city’s Arena and Convention Centre ... [Published Liverpool Daily Post - May 10 2013]

Entities: Sean Fitzpatrick, Joanna Shields, Michael Cawley, Ed Wray, Liverpool (United Kingdom)

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 2 reports

Happy birthday Campus London. You’ve grown up so fast.

Just over 12 months ago, Campus London opened its doors to the young, upcoming London tech startup community. I’d like to think we always knew it would succeed, but I don’t think any of us expected the level of engagement and enthusiasm we’ve seen in ... [Published Google - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: London, Startup, Entrepreneur, Guy Kawasaki, Jimmy Wales

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David Gillespie, chief executive of RBS England & Wales and NatWest Scotland, added, "this is a unique chance to celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurship and help get behind a sector that is driving the uk recovery."

Banks back Accelerate festival for high-growth firms [Published En the Web - May 17 2013]

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For and Against: Are conventional lectures outd... [Published Gair Rhydd - May 14 2013]
Lily Cole to come to Cambridge for launch of ne... [Published Varsity - May 13 2013]
Should university students use Wikipedia? [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]
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Former Bebo boss joins Accelerate 2013 [Published Insider Media Limited - May 10 2013]
Business News: Accelerate 2013 running order un... [Published Liverpool Daily Post - May 10 2013]
Lifting the lid on accelerate 2013 [Published Your Business eZine - May 09 2013]
8 Successful Entrepreneurs Give Their Younger S... [Published Fast Company - May 09 2013]
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Blogs

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How Entertaining Should Education Be? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 15 2013] Jimmy Wales thinks dull lectures need to die. Ari Kohen pushes back : Wales asks, “why wouldn’t you have the most entertaining professor, the one with the proven track record of getting knowledge into people’s heads?” Is there evidence that the most ...
David K. Levine: Googazon: The Web 3.0 [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - May 06 2013] Will the next Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds or Jimmy Wales please step forward? Because I don't want information at my fingertips -- I want action at my fingertips, and I mean my fingertips. Read More... More on Amazon ...
Are university lectures doomed? [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - May 05 2013] Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has suggested that online courses herald the end of traditional lectures Philip Hensher: novelist and professor of creative writing at the University of Bath Spa Can it be true? Are there still institutions where ...
Wikimedia's small-screen future [Published Engadget - May 03 2013] The office is silent when our small film crew arrives at Wikimedia's San Francisco headquarters. There's none of the newsroom buzz one might associate with the operators of one of the world's largest sites. Hell, the day I started at AOL, there was a ...
Happy birthday Campus London. You’ve grown up s... [Published The Official Google Blog - Apr 22 2013] Just over 12 months ago, Campus London opened its doors to the young, upcoming London tech startup community. I’d like to think we always knew it would succeed, but I don’t think any of us expected the level of engagement and enthusiasm we’ve seen in ...

Audio/Video

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Wikipedia Defies Need for Regulation [Published FOX Business - Video - Jan 04 2013]
VIDEO: Wiki founder: Digital bill 'incompetent' [Published BBC News Video - Business - Dec 11 2012]
Wikipedia asks for your cash [Published CNN.com - Video - Dec 05 2012]

Press Releases

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RSA® Conference 2013 Expands All-Star Keynote L... [Published EON Government & Public Policy - Jan 15 2013]
RSA® Conference 2013 Expands All-Star Keynote L... [Published EON Computers & Technology - Jan 15 2013]