So Knol has launched. I talked about this when they first talked about Knol and I didn’t get it then. I continue to not get it. Ok, let me qualify, anything Google does is worth a look and where Google allows a revenue share, it’s going to attract attention as well as usage, no doubt. [...]

Categories: google · seo · wiki

Huh. Just read about Mahalo’s new social network aggregation feature. As a concept I think this aggregation is an interesting idea, although, executions have thus far been pretty not great. I suspect nothing overly worthwhile will happen till data portability hits in one form or another…
Anyhow, I stomped over to Mahalo and registered me a [...]

Categories: search · social networks · wiki

Google announced Knol the other day - their most recent foray into becoming a content provider instead of just a content pointer outer. As TechCrunch notes it seems quite a bit like Squidoo and only mildly like Wikipedia - apparently people will be able to suggest edits to all pages, but it isn’t clear exactly [...]

Categories: google · wiki

Mahalo’s out now, in alpha - the human-powered search service. It’s goal is to utilise the community to hand build search results pages with links editorially chosen for their goodness. They’re paying folks up to $15 per search results page with an option for you to waive your fee and have it redirected towards the [...]

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UPDATE: ok, a bonus link, courtesy boingboing. It seems that Boston really believes it will be the next target of a terrorist attack, either that or the Boston PD is really bored and has some extra explosives around. Me and Howard used to do that when we had an extra M80, too. But back in [...]

Categories: breakfast links · wiki

As someone who works with magazines quite a bit, I was interested to read that Wikia has launched three open magazine sites. Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, these sites are designed to be a forum for people to write more editorial/opinion pieces on the subjects (the broad subjects being politics, entertainment and local community) [...]

Categories: magazines · open content · wiki