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Saturday, December 22, 2007Googe is testing Knol. A social networking site.Recently I read a post about Knol from Google. Knol stands for a unit of knowledge. Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. In my opinion, Knol will be a social networking site for professionals who know and/or specialize on specific fields or industries. Knol will be a good source to find accurate and updated information about important topics that can make your life easier. Here are 2 paragraphs from Google's Blog: ..."Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try anew, free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project. The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors' names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors -- but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content. At the heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word "knol" as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to write; we'll do the rest. "... It'll be interesting to see what Google ends up doing with this project. Labels: About Google Posted by Matt Bulox at 1:41 AM 0 Comments:<< Back to Home
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