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Udi Manber / Official Google Blog:
Encouraging people to contribute knowledge — The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable.
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Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, Google Blogoscoped, Tinfinger, VentureBeat, Google Operating System, TechCrunch, GigaOM, mathewingram.com/work, Googlified, MediaVidea, Paul Kedrosky's …, Mashable!, Krishwords, Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, rc3.org, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, WinExtra, Googling Google, Insider Chatter, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, The WebGuild Blog, Joe Duck and Randy Holloway Unfiltered
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Knol - Google's Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages — Move over Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo, and Squidoo. Maybe. That's because Google's testing its own service to let people build a repository of knowledge. In fact, knowledge forms the core of the service's name: Google Knol.
Nick / Rough Type:
Google Knol takes aim at Wikipedia — Big news out of the Googleplex tonight: Google is launching what appears to be a head-on competitor to Wikipedia. The company has begun beta-testing a tool, called Knol (short for "knowledge"), that will allow people to create articles about particular subjects …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Preparing To Launch Game Changing Wikipedia Meets Squidoo Project — When it comes to Google, nothing should surprise us any more. Last month it was Digg style social voting on search results, this month its a new project called "Knol" (which apparently stands for a unit of knowledge) …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Knols Project: Google Experimenting With User Generated Encyclopedic Pages — The official Google blog has a post tonight about a new project that's in closed, private beta. The program is called Knols, or "units of knowledge." Knols participants will write reference pages on any topic …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:Google Working On Their Own 'Accountable' Wikipedia
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Download Squad
Sam Sethi / blognation Updates:
Here's to You Mr(s) Arrington, Goodbye and Good Luck Startups — It's ironic that 1 year ago today I resigned from Techcrunch following my Le Web 3 review on TCUK. Mike Arrington, the publisher of Techcrunch, has never forgiven me for that post and the aftermath that followed.
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CrunchNotes, bub.blicio.us, TechFold, John Furrier, Valleywag, paidContent, Blogcosm, TECH.BLORGE.com, Webomatica and mobilejones
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Sethi: Everyone is to blame except me — Soap Opera 2., starring Blognation founder Sam Sethi, ended with a blockbuster today: Sam lays all the blame for the failure of the British blog network at the feet of TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington, who split with Sethi in a nasty and public …
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MediaVidea
Bill Gates / BBC:
The skills you need to succeed — One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker. — In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
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Jonathan Simon / Official Google Webmaster …:
New: Content analysis and Sitemap details, plus more languages — We're always striving to help webmasters build outstanding websites, and in our latest release we have two new features: Content analysis and Sitemap details. We hope these features help you to build a site you could compare …
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Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:Google's Webmaster Tools Adds More Diagnostic Features and Video Sitemaps
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Web Analytics World
Erik Sofge / Popular Mechanics:
The Top 10 Worst Gadgets of 2007 — To responsibly critique art, wrote W. H. Auden, requires "an inclination to praise rather than blame, and regret when a complete rejection is required...." But we've done our share of praising this year, and instead of another round-up of the products …
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MacDailyNews, Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Macsimum News, Brandon LeBlanc and Digg
Greg Sandoval / Webware.com:
MERRY CHRISTMAS MOM: USTREAM LINKS SOLDIERS WITH HOME — To many Americans with family members serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, the most wished-for holiday gift is simply a visit with their far-off loved ones. — Ustream.TV, a startup that lets users stream live video to the Web …
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Venture Voice
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Top 10 reasons IT won't support the iPhone — Wondering why your corporate Information Technology department won't buy you an Apple (AAPL) iPhone or support the one you bought yourself? Here's your answer. — Or, rather, 10 answers. Channeling the thought processes of IT managers …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A Year Later, the Same Scene: Long Lines for the Elusive Wii — SAN FRANCISCO — Linda Beattie is trying desperately to pay Nintendo $250, but the company is not cooperating. — Two weeks ago, Ms. Beattie went to a video game retailer in the Bay Area in search of a Wii, Nintendo's intensely popular video game machine.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Attack On the Yahoo Vice Presidents: More Exec Departures — It's starting to feel like a murder mystery over at Yahoo these days, as one vice president after another drops off the senior management rolls at the Internet giant. — Next to go are VP of Media Engineering Bharath Kadaba …
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Silicon Alley Insider
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Opera vs. Microsoft: Didn't the fat lady already sing this one? — Apparently encouraged by the willingness of EU antitrust regulators to press big U.S. tech companies in a way no else will (see "It's Ballmer, Sergey — he suggests jumping straight to dinner with Neelie Kroes") …
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Between the Lines, SiliconValley.com, Open Source, SitePoint Blogs and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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Tim Lee / Techdirt:Antitrust Law Is Supposed To Protect Consumers, Not Competitors
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PC World
Ellen Messmer / Network World:
Botnet-controlled Trojan robbing online bank customers — Security firm says malware targeting commercial customers believed to have come from Russia — A new variant on the "Prg Banking Trojan" malware discovered in June is stealing funds from commercial accounts in the United States …
