'We're not competing with Facebook - we're not putting a flag in the sand' - Jimmy Wales on TPO Community

Charlee Gothard
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Computing talks exclusively with the Wikipedia creator on his social network

Jimmy Wales' TPO Community - the social network portion of his ambitious new phone network The People's Operator - seemed an odd prospect. With some reporting the social network as the Wikipedia...

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