Wikipedia's Jim Wales on the GigaOm Show

Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia talks on the gigaom show when he talks about the social networks. They talked about the g file, which you can purchase for more storage. This software is known as the Google Get Set and G Drive. According to Gartner, Inc the worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users in the third quarter of 2007 reached 289 million units, a 15% increase from last year. Jimmy Wales from Huntsville, Al, he studied game theory. He talked about his Wikiapedia, which is a very straight forward when doing a research. Wikia is basically like a traditional library. It gives the tools people will need as if they were at the library. He wants his program to be a free source and open source, he is using existing sources. He planned to collaborate with different people to find out what is redundant. They talked about how there are more social adoption for blogs than wikis, basically because communities tend to come together. People usually go where there’s already action, and its hard to build a community. The trust metric is a measure of how a member of a group is trusted by the other members. Armchairgm which allows you to write a story, others can come and blog, but can still be edited. Different people can post and there is a vote for who gets the front page. A lot of people on wikipedia that edits there own bibliography, which they are not suppose to do.