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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.org, is a self-proclaimed ?anticredentialist? and in six years has revolutionized the way we share-and generate-information online. Wikipedia, now in 250 languages, rides on the idea that truth rises to the top of user-generated content. though a recent scandal proves that's not always the case...
When law student Stephanie Zarro Avanessian logged onto a popular online message board about law school, she encountered shocking postings that ridiculed her and several other classmates about their appearance and sexual identity. An anonymous user had posted the derogatory comments to the Web site AutoAdmit—an online message board that claims to be “the most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world” on its site. After eliciting a number of responses from other anonymous users, the thread turned into a graphic and offensive description of her body...
...designs for MobiTV's user interface, the screen configuration that consumers navigate to get to the programs they want, which also helps define the brand visually. He cut his teeth eight years ago designing PC software for a long-dead start-up called DoDots, then spent five years on DVR software design at TiVo--creator of another revolutionary product and one, he says, "people can no longer imagine living without...
...give shape to that new paradigm is MobiTV's adoption of the WiMAX standard, a.k.a. "wi-fi on crack." It combines unicast (a stream to a single user at a time, like the Internet) and broadcast, increasing capacity to allow higher data rates, two-way communication and so on. "We're just beginning to scratch the surface," he says. Maybe he'll eventually get it to download chocolate bars...
...ability to lead the advertising community into new water," he says. "That for me was an interesting challenge because it's requiring a lot of the skills that I've acquired over the years." Having climbed a "significant learning curve" at MobiTV, Hallahan is focused on getting the user to interact with the advertiser through branded content and channels, as well as localized, targeted advertising. "I'm in a position to influence a lot of the things that are happening," he says. "I'm fortunate to be exposed on its earliest level--and driving some of it." It clearly drives...