Jimmy Wales to topple Facebook by slinging his own social web?
Not even Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales can escape Facebook fever. He showed off a few screenshots from Wikia's open-source search project while addressing a small gathering in South Africa. What have we here? A Jimmy Wales profile page that looks alarmingly like Facebook. Who knew you could make Facebook's minimalist design even more minimal, and yet somehow render it ugly? The current rumor is Wikia is developing a hybrid of search and social networking that will simultaneously gun down Google and Facebook. Good luck with that, Jimmy. If it doesn't work out for you, you can always change the Wikipedia entry and say it did.