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Knol News now on Social Median

I've created a News Channel on Social Media, which has just gone into public beta today. Among other sources, it of course adds news from Knol Roll. I have been using the Alpha release of Social Median for a few months, and it's a very useful tool. Take a look: http://www.socialmedian.com/network/google-knol-news

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Added by David Petherick [Digital Biographer] on July 31, 2008 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Knol Verification: Not good enough by far.

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

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Added by David Petherick [Digital Biographer] on July 27, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

How I got to Page 1 on Google in 24 hours with Google Knol.

The Google Knol I created 24th July entitled 'How to Read the Russian Alphabet in 75 Minutes' was already

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Added by David Petherick [Digital Biographer] on July 26, 2008 at 2:30pm — 3 Comments

Knol will eat Wikipedia

Take a look at this article: The ‘W’ will get Wikipedia to beat Knol Your thoughts? Continue

Added by David Petherick [Digital Biographer] on May 8, 2008 at 11:25pm — 1 Comment

'The Knol' is already Rolling at Squidoo!

Interestingly, the Google knol on insomnia that was used when announcing Knol In December 2007 also appears in a Squidoo Lens by Seth Godin, and coming across this just while writing this article, when I searched (through google) for Insomnia Knol, I saw that Squidoo has unveiled a SquidKnol Project which is a template for data to be entered.

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Added by David Petherick [Digital Biographer] on January 19, 2008 at 5:10pm — No Comments

'Knol not one of Google’s “urgent” projects?' - ZDNet Googling Google Blog

Garret Rogers writes at ZDnet's 'Googling Google' that the Knol announcement a month ago was just designed to deflect attention from Wikia Search - which, now that it's been seen to be very early and basic, the knol project is not such a high priority.

See ZDNet Blog at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=890

What do you make of this?

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Added by David Petherick [Digital Biographer] on January 19, 2008 at 11:36am — 1 Comment

Knol is on a Roll: Has Google created a new economy for online authors?

Google. They keep doing this. Coming up with a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events beyond the realm of normal expectations…

So, here is the next Black Swan from Google:- a highly improbable event that is unpredictable, will have massive impact, and which, after it has happened, we’ll all pretend we could have seen it coming. This is Google Knol - encouraging people to contribute knowledge.

Many mainstream media observers see this as Google’s a direct challen

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Added by David Petherick [Digital Biographer] on December 16, 2007 at 2:16pm — No Comments