Wikipedia founder launching own social media platform:

[numb3r_5ev3n]

"Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has launched an alternative to Facebook and Twitter. The platform wants to keep the users from becoming the product."

Wow. I guess we'll see what comes of this.

Comments

[worlds_of_smoke]

I think the big thing that's going to be hard is building up a userbase. That's why Facebook and Twitter get away with what they can get away with - they have such a massive userbase that you're almost obliged to use them nowadays. :/

[flamingsword]

I am trying out this early adoption thing, and they have over 100k users from this month.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

Yup, I am on a waiting list.