My Google Knol Club

If you read Mashable on a regular basis, you know that Google makes a lot of really big announcements. Like, “we’re going to take over this industry” type announcements. The latest, Google Sites, is a new wiki-style collaboration tool for businesses and organizations. There’s also Google Health, which as we saw earlier today, is looking to unclutter the mess that is our healthcare system. Meanwhile, Knol wants to dismantle Wikipedia. OpenSocial wants to become the OS for social networking app

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JasonCalacanis: Wil Reynolds says SEO could go away if Google Knol, and other publishing tools, come out. Google Knol is controversial for publishers.

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Hey everyone who took time to stop by, say hello, share a story, etc!  I just wanted to say thanks, I sincerely apologize for the AV issues…it was 100% my fault, I used my own laptop. I had fun, and hope that you all took something away from the time you spent today. A few things I am noticing on the blogosphere, most notably the comments from Jason Calacanis on twitter, I had a friend let me know he was posting thoughts about it there, and a few things are worth clearing up the record on bec

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briansuda: wonders what happened to Google’s Knol project?

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Steve Rubel is alarmed that companies are being advised to launch social media programs in order to take advantage of the search engine benefits. Rubel is disturbed by this trend and in my experience, once the companies see an area that can help them at no charge, you just can’t stop them. Spammers have killed e-mail, many forums, blogs and other forms of communications. For example, unless you ave people monitoring every post and trackback ping on blogs your site will be overrun by SEO spamm

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When Google announced its Knol project in December many analysts said that the search engine giant went one step too far by effectively entering the turf of content producers. What kind of effect will this super-secret project have on search engine optimization practices if and when Google opens the service to the public … Free Embedded Linux Webinars 5 free embedded Linux webinars from Timesys. Topics include Toolsets, Boot-Up, Filesystems & more.

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A couple of weeks ago, my wife demonstrated to me the speed with which application fabric is spun from the fibers of new services.  She is an avid amateur student of flamenco, a dance form usually associated with Spain, but actually possessing deep and extensive Romani (Gypsy) roots.  Flamenco has many traditional expressions, and exercising her inquisitive bent, my wife often searches for recordings online, as well as texts describing its history and evolution. Recently she was searching for

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Within an astonishingly short time, Wikipedia has become one of the most-visited sites on the Internet. Consequently, Wikipedians—the self-appointed guardians of what is and isn’t permissible for inclusion on the site—have become very powerful in determining what you are permitted to know about any topic, and even which topics are worthy of inclusion. It’s been said that with great power comes great responsibility. That responsibility isn’t always handled properly. For example, Wikipedia’s list

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Why Wikipedia’s Competitors Are Failing, And Why Knol Might Not from the the-knolipedia dept With the possible exception of our allegedly-sexual-predator-filled social networks, it seems safe to say that there’s no internet phenomenon that causes quite as much finger-wagging consternation as Wikipedia. Is it credible? Complete? A worthy reference material? Personally, I’m content to leave these questions to the world’s concerned librarians. One thing that’s not in question is whether Wikipedi

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