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Bomis

Bomis, Inc. (/ˈbɒmɪs/, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; rhyming with "promise") was an American dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related…

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Founded
1996
Founders
Jimmy Wales · Tim Shell · Michael Davis
Industry
Dot-com
Headquarters
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Advertising
Yes
Available in
English

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Bomis

Nodes112
Edges111
Triples170
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017857
Components1

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related to Further reading · 30
Bomis → Advertising, Announcing Wikimedia Foundation, Archived, Bomis FAQ, Bomis What's New, California, Com Browser Kills Pop-Up, Displace Britannica, Encarta, February, Freedom's Nest, Internet Archive, January, Jimmy, July, June, March, Nekkid, November, October
related to Hosted content · 27
Bomis → About, Additional, Advertising, Beauty, Bomis Browser, Buffy, Casablanca, Episode, Farrah Fawcett, Geri Halliwell, Hunter, In, Its, Misogyny, Open Directory Project, Sheila Jeffreys, Snake Eyes, Spice Girls, Star Wars, The Buffy
related to Description of site · 20
Bomis → Business, Crowd, Crowdsourcing, Driving, Future, How, In, Internet, Jeff Howe, Jonathan Zittrain, Magazine, Philanthropy, Power, Stop It, The Chronicle, The Edge, The Future, The Guardian, Wales's, Web
related to Foundation · 19
Bomis → Andrew McCague, Ask Jeeves, Chicago, Florida, In, In June, Its, Jason Richey, Michael Davis, NBC, NBCi, Petersburg, San Diego, St, Terry Foote, The, Tim Shell, Toan Vo, Wales
related to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees · 18
Bomis → All Bomis-owned, By, English-language, Florida, In June, It, Petersburg, Sanger, St, The, Wales, When, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikipedia's, Wikipedia-associated, Wikipedia-related, With Wikipedia
related to Nupedia and Wikipedia · 17
Bomis → At, CEO, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, March, May, Michael Davis, Nupedia, Nupedia's, Ohio State University, PhD, San Diego, Sanger, Tim Shell, To, Wales, Wikipedia
related to Aftermath · 14
Bomis → Bomis Babes, He, In, It, Jimmy, Larry Sanger, Rogers Cadenhead, Time, Top, UK, US, Wales, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Moments
Products · 5
Bomis → Bomis Babe Report, Bomis Babes, Bomis Browser, Bomis Premium, The Babe Engine
Founders · 3
Bomis → Jimmy Wales, Michael Davis, Tim Shell
Subsidiaries · 2
Bomis → Nupedia (2000–2003), Wikipedia (2001–2003)

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wikipedia wales nupedia content company foundation shell site advertising sanger wikimedia erotic bomis' board 2000 internet archived davis 2003 ceo

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BomisAdvertisingYes1.00infobox
BomisAvailable inEnglish1.00infobox
BomisCEOTim Shell1.00infobox
BomisDissolved20071.00infobox
BomisEmployees101.00infobox
BomisFounded19961.00infobox
BomisFoundersJimmy Wales1.00infobox
BomisFoundersTim Shell1.00infobox
BomisFoundersMichael Davis1.00infobox
BomisHeadquartersSt. Petersburg, Florida, United States1.00infobox
BomisIndustryDot-com1.00infobox
BomisLaunched19961.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Premium1.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Babes1.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Babe Report1.00infobox
BomisProductsThe Babe Engine1.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Browser1.00infobox
BomisRegistrationNo1.00infobox
BomisSubsidiariesNupedia (2000–2003)1.00infobox
BomisSubsidiariesWikipedia (2001–2003)1.00infobox
BomisType of businessPrivate1.00infobox
BomisType of siteInternet portal1.00infobox
BomisType of siteAdvertising space1.00infobox
BomisURLbomis.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-05-10)1.00infobox

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