My Google Knol Club

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Google has announced that it will soon be launching a new service/tool for worldwide users called Google Knol (short for knowledge) which will encourage authors to contribute signed encyclopedic entries into a massive knowledge base. Basically the key concept is to create a free open-source encyclopedia (just like Wikipedia) where people can come and write about any topic. “The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articl

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Gary Price reports Google has applied to trademark several terms this year, including Knol, Android, OpenSocial, Open Handset Alliance, Panoramio, Dalvik and more. These trademark applications are common for companies wanting to protect their new product releases.

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Citizendium’s Sanger on Google Knol: not afraid of a rerun Citizendium, like Google’s Knol, stresses accountability and roles for experts. But can it compete in this brave “Knol” world? December 30, 2007 - 11:15PM CT - by Nate Anderson

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WWF Deeper Luxury (tags: green trends report marketing branding) Global Neighbourhoods: Can Brands be social? (tags: thesis branding social media) Pownce Goes Mobile! (tags: mobile social networks blogs) Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: OMG! MMORPG on My Cellphone! (tags: mobile social networks virtual worlds) Frengo’s Flirtable Facebook Application Goes Mobile (tags: mobile social networks) Wired News - AP News (tags: technology trends) Where Does Ribbit Fit in the Web-Based VoIP Univer

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Google Knows To Trademark Knol By David A. Utter - Sat, 12/29/2007 - 3:05pm. Call it a unit of knowledge, but beware of calling it a ‘knol’, as Google has applied to trademark the term. News Tags: Google, Trademark, Knol

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On the day Knol - Google’s Wikipedia-like service - was announced, Google applied to trademark the 4-letter combination. In the application, Google describe Knol as “publishing services; information services; education and entertainment services”. Google also applied to trademark Android, OpenSocial, and Ad Blitz during the year of 2007. [via ResourceShelf]

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*Wired on the process of canceling your subscription music services. Wow, 30 minutes to cancel a Napster account. I’m obviously in the minority here, but I think subscription music is more in the future than it is in the past. As I’ve said before; screw having to manage (buy, find, etc.) files – it’s a waste of my time; I want to outsource it. [murketing] *Local: Atmosphere drops 13 tracks for free: “Strictly Leakage.” Watch the explanatory video (which contains both smoking and chess) here.

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We come to the end of 2007, well almost, having covered almost all the International stories of the dot com World. For many in the dot com World, the year was dominated by mostly one story – the huge amount that Microsoft paid for a miniscule stake in Facebook. At WATBlog, we covered it extensively as well. We dealt with why Microsoft may have paid such a sum and also how Facebook is trying to be worth its while. There were many stores like the Facebook Beacon story (where a girl got to know

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