Jimmy Wales has a plan for a radically different social network

Wikipedia founder is to try to define what people want from a social network: , focused on news and current affairs, and respect for us and our data. The result is , which has set up a waiting list for an account, which has so far attracted more than 140,000 people, although the network can be accessed and some basic work done to your .

The idea is to create a network free of advertising where anyone can create and modify entries based on Wikipedia’s open philosophy, and with the emphasis on creating quality content, funded by an optional subscription model (which skips the waiting list). This is Wales’s personal experiment and has generated a lot of interest, given his contribution to one of the defining features of the internet. On November 15 Wales on his Twitter account that more than one hundred thousand people had signed up: today, the number is more than 1600,000, with no signs of slowing down.

Social networks ; and anybody who thinks otherwise has been probably conditioned by Facebook’s experience. Would a social network work where the content you create can be edited by anyone? Such an idea would involve a radical redefinition of content ownership. Wikipedia’s philosophy has created the best…