Wikia Videos

Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia sits down for an in-depth discussion of the celebrated open source online encyclopedia and community. He discusses the philosophy behind Wikipedia as well as it s current and future designs for growth and innovation.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Although his non-profit Wikipedia made him best known as the selfless guru of wisdom-of-the-crowd publishing, Jimmy Wales has a second site designed to make as much money as possible. Called Wikia.com, it has become a sprawling universe of thousands of wikis on nearly every imaginable subject. It now logs more than 500 million page views a month and has growing stable of blue-chip advertisers. Many marketers have begun to explore wikis as vehicles for product promotion. But, as Wales explains in this ten-minute interview with Ad Age digital editor Abbey Klaassen, several deeply-ingrained flaws in marketers' thinking often causes their wikis to fail.

Free Culture and the Future of PublishingJimmy Wales, Chairman of the Board, Wikia, Inc.Jimmy Wales, a founder of Wikipedia, will provide insights into the surprisingly successful aspects of the world's largest free-content encyclopedia, share lessons that can be applied to other projects, and discuss what the future holds for free culture generally.From O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing, San Jose, CA, Tuesday, June 19th, 2007.

(9-3-07) He's rewriting history, with a little help from his friends. Lindsay chats with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.

Moderator: Guy Kawasaki, Co-Founder, Truemors, Craig Sherman, CEO, Gaia Online, Paul Martino, CEO, Aggregate Knowledge, Gil Penchina, CEO, Wikia discuss their success as the captains of innovation and winners of the AlwaysOn 100. Watch the conference in it's entirety at: www.alwayson.goingon.com --Sent via http://heyspread.com : One shot video uploader

(5-19-07) For those of you who didn't get enough of Jimmy Wales in our Friday Chat (link to Friday Chat), check out the extended version.

(5-18-07) He's rewriting history, with a little help from his friends. Lindsay chats with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.

Following Cory Doctorow's talk about 2 weeks ago on, "The State of the Copy Fight", Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia gave a lecture during Evan Korth s Computer s and Society course at NYU on "Free culture, transparency, and search. his for-profit company Wikia and its three areas of operation: Library, Open Serving, and Search. Given the audiences familiarity with Wikipedia, Wales skipped most of his prepared speech on that and after he gave a brief background on open source software, how it works, and the fact that you can be commercially successful doing and using it, he spent most of his time talking about Wikia. Below is the full video of the talk (about 25 minutes followed by 25 minutes of questions, the beginning is a little jumpy but it settles down, sorry) followed by my notes from the talk.