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CelebrityContest.net is the free game where you buy and sell celebrities like stocks - and you can win prizes if the ones you have in your portfolio gain popularity on the Internet. Thanks to our revolutionary algorithm we constantly update each celebrity's Internet Value - and that's the "price" you pay when you buy a celeb. So, if you pick the "right" ones your portfolio value will grow, and every month you'll have the chance to win our prize
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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is the founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects. He is also founder of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.
In May 2006, Wales was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People.
In 1994, Wales went on to become the Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trader in Chicago which he did for six years. In 1996, he founded a search portal called Bomis, which also sold adult content until mid-2005. He was asked in a September 2005 C-SPAN interview about his previous involvement with what the interviewer, Brian Lamb, called "dirty pictures". In response, Wales described Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine", with a market similar to Maxim magazine. In an interview with Wired News, he also explained that he disputed the categorization of Bomis content as "soft-core pornography": "If R-rated movies are porn, it was porn. In other words, no, it was not." He is no longer actively involved in the company.
In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia.com ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief.[4] While Wales was CEO, Bomis donated over US$100,000 (primarily through salaries and providing free Internet access) to Nupedia and Wikipedia, and continued supporting them into 2002.
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