Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol goes live
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol goes live
by Gerard Meijssen-3
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Hoi,
I wish them well... there is a need for good information and, if it proves to be competition, we will have to do better :_ NB Knoll being English only is ceding more then half of our market to us. Thanks, GerardM On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Nathan <nawrich@...> wrote: > From the NY Times Bits blog see: > http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/wikipedia-meet-knol/index.html?hp > > cc'd to Foundation-l. > > Nathan > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Keith Old <keithold@...> wrote: > > > G'day fellow Wikipedians, > > > > Google has announced that Knol has gone live. > > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/knol-is-open-to-everyone.html > > > > "A few months ago we > > announced< > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html > > >that > > we were testing a new product called > > Knol <http://knol.google.com/>. Knols are authoritative articles about > > specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, > > we're making Knol available to everyone. > > > > The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth > > knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in > > people's > > heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could > > benefit > > from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their > > knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone. > > The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an > author > > (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their > > knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple > > knols on the same subject, and we think that is good." > > > > (More in link) > > > > The Knol website is live here. > > > > http://knol.google.com/k# > > > > The featured content ranges from How to backpack to Type 1 diabetes. > > > > Regards > > > > > > *Keith Old > > * > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@... > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@... > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@... Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol goes live
by Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Nathan <nawrich@...> wrote: > > >> From the NY Times Bits blog see: >> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/wikipedia-meet-knol/index.html?hp >> >> cc'd to Foundation-l. >> >> Nathan >> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Keith Old <keithold@...> wrote: >> >> >>> G'day fellow Wikipedians, >>> >>> Google has announced that Knol has gone live. >>> >>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/knol-is-open-to-everyone.html >>> >>> "A few months ago we >>> announced< >>> >>> >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html >> >>>> that >>>> >>> we were testing a new product called >>> Knol <http://knol.google.com/>. Knols are authoritative articles about >>> specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, >>> we're making Knol available to everyone. >>> >>> The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth >>> knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in >>> people's >>> heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could >>> benefit >>> from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their >>> knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone. >>> The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an >>> >> author >> >>> (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their >>> knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple >>> knols on the same subject, and we think that is good." >>> >>> (More in link) >>> >>> The Knol website is live here. >>> >>> http://knol.google.com/k# >>> >>> The featured content ranges from How to backpack to Type 1 diabetes. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> *Keith Old >>> * >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> WikiEN-l@... >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@... >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> >Hoi, >I wish them well... there is a need for good information and, if it proves >to be competition, we will have to do better :_ >NB Knoll being English only is ceding more then half of our market to us. >Thanks, > GerardM Heh; do we get the hand of the princess in marriage too? Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@... Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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