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Google Launches Wikipedia Rival
Google has launched an online-publishing service called Knol that is a potential competitor to Wikipedia.
Wall Street Journal – Jul 24, 2008 02:53 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Google has launched an online-publishing service called Knol that is a potential competitor to Wikipedia.
Wall Street Journal – Jul 24, 2008 02:53 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Like Wikipedia but for Cash: Google's Knol
Google today opened the doors to its new Knol, which allows anyone to write articles and earn AdSense revenue on their pages.
PC World – Jul 24, 2008 12:57 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Google today opened the doors to its new Knol, which allows anyone to write articles and earn AdSense revenue on their pages.
PC World – Jul 24, 2008 12:57 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Google Opens Knol, a Wiki with Bylines
Site is designed to let people sign their name to their expertise, rather than be lost in anonymity.
InternetNews.com – Jul 24, 2008 12:02 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Site is designed to let people sign their name to their expertise, rather than be lost in anonymity.
InternetNews.com – Jul 24, 2008 12:02 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Google's Answer To Wikipedia, Knol, Launches
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Knol's means of encouragement is Google's AdSense program, which will let verified subscribers generate income from the articles they've authored.
Yahoo! – Jul 23, 2008 11:56 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - Knol's means of encouragement is Google's AdSense program, which will let verified subscribers generate income from the articles they've authored.
Yahoo! – Jul 23, 2008 11:56 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.
Reuters – Jul 23, 2008 11:24 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.
Reuters – Jul 23, 2008 11:24 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Web video slowly creeps up on TV in Europe-Jupiter
Reuters - More than one in four Europeans regularly watches online video on sites such as Google's YouTube but the medium has a long way to go to catch up with regular TV, according to Internet research firm Jupiter.
Yahoo! – Jul 23, 2008 11:22 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Reuters - More than one in four Europeans regularly watches online video on sites such as Google's YouTube but the medium has a long way to go to catch up with regular TV, according to Internet research firm Jupiter.
Yahoo! – Jul 23, 2008 11:22 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Location technology finally finds its feet
Location, location, location has been the holy grail of the mobile phone industry almost as long as "education, education, education" has been New Labour's mantra. But we may now be entering an era when location delivers the goods. The assumption is that everyone gains from the fact that your phone knows exactly where you are, thanks to new technologies such as satellite tracking. The consumer gains because all the data relevant to where you are - from the nearest cash machine to historic monuments - will be instantly available. Operators can bombard you with local services to make money, and for advertisers it is paradise. You could be walking down a street when a huge (digitised) advertisement for Nike suddenly switches to something relevant to you gleaned from the data extracted from your mobile usage. The same technology will help ambulance services find you. Governments will gain because ... don't even think about it. Knowing where you are will become more relevant as access to the internet migrates to mobile devices. Over-hyped technology has been holding location services back. Working out your position from the three nearest mobile phone base stations was interesting but often wildly inaccurate. GPS - using triangulation techniques from satellite signals - was a great improvement. It was successful when you didn't need it - in open countryside - but less so (though getting better) in towns with high buildings. Now along comes a third technology that makes you wonder whether GPS is so useful. At a packed Mobile Monday meeting in London last week, Skyhook Wireless launched its free Loki.com system in Europe, which locates your phone using signals emitted from Wi-Fi hotspots. It has 200 people driving around Europe mapping Wi-Fi signals. The software, which contains GPS, cell tower triangulation and Wi-Fi hotspots, can be added to phones or computers and is claimed to locate you within 10 to 20 metres in a fraction of a second on a mobile. I failed to get it to download to my PC, Mac, or Symbian phone, but hopefully that is a temporary problem as the demo at Mobile Monday worked. What use is location? It is already employed for discovering restaurants and bars without having to tap in a postcode, for tracking parcels and for working out routes from maps. The spread of social networks will enable you to see where your friends from Facebook or LinkedIn are (if they give permission) and for friends and family to follow you. But the most interesting applications are not yet known. They are likely to emerge when the army of developers now working on applications for the iPhone, Google's mobile operating system Android and the recently formed open source Symbian Foundation start delivering new apps. At Mobile Monday I talked to Sosresponse.com, which has won an award for reducing bike theft by more than 90% in a part of Portsmouth using a motion- sensitive bike lock which triggers a CCTV camera into action when it is moved. The same company is experimenting with a watch containing a wireless chip that can be worn by people with Alzheimer's. When they stray out of the wireless-enabled area, it alerts their carers. New services include Trapster.com, which collates information about speed traps; Locle.com, which will use Loki to show where your friends are on social networks; and Rummble.com, which aims to find the level of trust there should be between different people. If you used a location chip with internet radio station Last.fm, you could produce a map showing where specific songs were playing. The really interesting things will happen when developers exploit the open systems adopted by Google, Symbian and Apple, including backroom programmers who have been hibernating since the demise of the Sinclair Spectrum and BBC B. These could be exciting times. vic.keegan@guardian.co.ukRelated StoriesTechnophile: The Skype PhoneLetters and blogsAleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the futureCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – Jul 23, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Location, location, location has been the holy grail of the mobile phone industry almost as long as "education, education, education" has been New Labour's mantra. But we may now be entering an era when location delivers the goods. The assumption is that everyone gains from the fact that your phone knows exactly where you are, thanks to new technologies such as satellite tracking. The consumer gains because all the data relevant to where you are - from the nearest cash machine to historic monuments - will be instantly available. Operators can bombard you with local services to make money, and for advertisers it is paradise. You could be walking down a street when a huge (digitised) advertisement for Nike suddenly switches to something relevant to you gleaned from the data extracted from your mobile usage. The same technology will help ambulance services find you. Governments will gain because ... don't even think about it. Knowing where you are will become more relevant as access to the internet migrates to mobile devices. Over-hyped technology has been holding location services back. Working out your position from the three nearest mobile phone base stations was interesting but often wildly inaccurate. GPS - using triangulation techniques from satellite signals - was a great improvement. It was successful when you didn't need it - in open countryside - but less so (though getting better) in towns with high buildings. Now along comes a third technology that makes you wonder whether GPS is so useful. At a packed Mobile Monday meeting in London last week, Skyhook Wireless launched its free Loki.com system in Europe, which locates your phone using signals emitted from Wi-Fi hotspots. It has 200 people driving around Europe mapping Wi-Fi signals. The software, which contains GPS, cell tower triangulation and Wi-Fi hotspots, can be added to phones or computers and is claimed to locate you within 10 to 20 metres in a fraction of a second on a mobile. I failed to get it to download to my PC, Mac, or Symbian phone, but hopefully that is a temporary problem as the demo at Mobile Monday worked. What use is location? It is already employed for discovering restaurants and bars without having to tap in a postcode, for tracking parcels and for working out routes from maps. The spread of social networks will enable you to see where your friends from Facebook or LinkedIn are (if they give permission) and for friends and family to follow you. But the most interesting applications are not yet known. They are likely to emerge when the army of developers now working on applications for the iPhone, Google's mobile operating system Android and the recently formed open source Symbian Foundation start delivering new apps. At Mobile Monday I talked to Sosresponse.com, which has won an award for reducing bike theft by more than 90% in a part of Portsmouth using a motion- sensitive bike lock which triggers a CCTV camera into action when it is moved. The same company is experimenting with a watch containing a wireless chip that can be worn by people with Alzheimer's. When they stray out of the wireless-enabled area, it alerts their carers. New services include Trapster.com, which collates information about speed traps; Locle.com, which will use Loki to show where your friends are on social networks; and Rummble.com, which aims to find the level of trust there should be between different people. If you used a location chip with internet radio station Last.fm, you could produce a map showing where specific songs were playing. The really interesting things will happen when developers exploit the open systems adopted by Google, Symbian and Apple, including backroom programmers who have been hibernating since the demise of the Sinclair Spectrum and BBC B. These could be exciting times. vic.keegan@guardian.co.ukRelated StoriesTechnophile: The Skype PhoneLetters and blogsAleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the futureCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – Jul 23, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Aleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the future
They're watching you frag. Every excessive potshot you take at an ill-programmed sentry, every curb you mount during a badly-timed turn, every dragon you slay in a fantasy world, they're documenting your actions, crunching them to make way for a new society. It may sound batty, but mark my words: the future will be determined by what you do on your home console or via your PC. Now, before you call the nice men in white coats to Guardian Towers 'cause it seems Aleks has taken those Philip K Dick novels a little too seriously, let me assure you this is all happening. At the moment, most of the watching is happening in ivory towers or within the walled gardens of game publishing companies. People like me, social science researchers whose academic passions are tracking, collecting and crunching huge swathes of digital activity in online worlds to test behavioural theory, find capturing game data much easier - and often more realistic - than sitting in a laundromat surreptitiously taking notes about who talks with whom about which soap powder. Using the server logs, we can document how people are connected. We can track innovations and epidemics. We can learn so much about ourselves from how we play. Clearly there's a commercial motivation for many professional computer game trackers. Where would marketing teams be without customer segmentations - those vastly important pigeonholes previously based on surveys and interviews, and now on the activities customers actually pursue. But to date, most of the technologies making real-time game data capture possible outside of corporations or universities are in the proposal stages. Google has been working on a patent since 2005 to deliver targeted advertising to gamers based on the cars they choose in racing games, the conversations they have in RPGs and the digital brands they favour in virtual worlds. The US government is courting a report that outlines data mining initiatives that could identify potential terrorist activities in online games. The UK government is also watching this space. Virtual Policy 08, held in conjunction with the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, dissected the public policy implications of people running around Tolkien-inspired landscapes dressed as trolls. It seems what happens in computer games no longer stays in computer games. These digital Edens may well inform the new world order.Related StoriesTechnophile: The Skype PhoneLocation technology finally finds its feetLetters and blogsCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – Jul 23, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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They're watching you frag. Every excessive potshot you take at an ill-programmed sentry, every curb you mount during a badly-timed turn, every dragon you slay in a fantasy world, they're documenting your actions, crunching them to make way for a new society. It may sound batty, but mark my words: the future will be determined by what you do on your home console or via your PC. Now, before you call the nice men in white coats to Guardian Towers 'cause it seems Aleks has taken those Philip K Dick novels a little too seriously, let me assure you this is all happening. At the moment, most of the watching is happening in ivory towers or within the walled gardens of game publishing companies. People like me, social science researchers whose academic passions are tracking, collecting and crunching huge swathes of digital activity in online worlds to test behavioural theory, find capturing game data much easier - and often more realistic - than sitting in a laundromat surreptitiously taking notes about who talks with whom about which soap powder. Using the server logs, we can document how people are connected. We can track innovations and epidemics. We can learn so much about ourselves from how we play. Clearly there's a commercial motivation for many professional computer game trackers. Where would marketing teams be without customer segmentations - those vastly important pigeonholes previously based on surveys and interviews, and now on the activities customers actually pursue. But to date, most of the technologies making real-time game data capture possible outside of corporations or universities are in the proposal stages. Google has been working on a patent since 2005 to deliver targeted advertising to gamers based on the cars they choose in racing games, the conversations they have in RPGs and the digital brands they favour in virtual worlds. The US government is courting a report that outlines data mining initiatives that could identify potential terrorist activities in online games. The UK government is also watching this space. Virtual Policy 08, held in conjunction with the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, dissected the public policy implications of people running around Tolkien-inspired landscapes dressed as trolls. It seems what happens in computer games no longer stays in computer games. These digital Edens may well inform the new world order.Related StoriesTechnophile: The Skype PhoneLocation technology finally finds its feetLetters and blogsCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – Jul 23, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Stuart Jeffries: Technophobia - the sign of a born leader?
Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of internet company Yahoo, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer. Email, Icahn suggests, is a distraction. Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn't email or know how to use the net. He told the New York Times recently: "I am learning to get online myself." Instead, the senator currently has the cyberspace equivalent of food tasters, namely aides who direct him to happening sites such as the Drudge Report and his daughter Meghan's blog. Democrats argue this shows that McCain, who turns 72 next month, is out of touch with the modern world. "My five-year-old niece can use the internet," said one gloating Barack Obama strategist. Obama, by contrast, is regularly photographed in-flight hunched over his BlackBerry. But is McCain's admission really damaging? Like the Queen not carrying money, only really powerful people don't do cyberspace. They sit at computer-free desks thinking outside the inbox, while their crack team of microserfs battle with spam or Google their way through virtual forests of information. After Tony Blair left No 10, he had to adjust to a baffling new world of mobile phones (he didn't have one as PM), texting ("Who are you?" was the reply to his first message) and email. The Bill Clinton Archive in Little Rock, Arkansas, has nearly 4m emails from the former president's staff and only two from the president himself. Admittedly, one of the latter was to astrounaut John Glenn, who was aboard the space shuttle at the time, but even then Clinton's staffers had to help him. True, some titans of business reply very quickly to emails, as their inboxes are uncluttered by spam. Three hundred emails a day is the curse of the middle manager. But, as Stanford professor Donald Knuth, one of the world's leading computer scientists, writes, "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration." Knuth hasn't checked his emails since 1990. Maybe McCain shouldn't bother to familiarise himself with the web and, if elected, perhaps Obama should check his BlackBerry at the Oval Office door.Related StoriesLocation technology finally finds its feetLetters and blogsAleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the futureCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – Jul 23, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of internet company Yahoo, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer. Email, Icahn suggests, is a distraction. Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn't email or know how to use the net. He told the New York Times recently: "I am learning to get online myself." Instead, the senator currently has the cyberspace equivalent of food tasters, namely aides who direct him to happening sites such as the Drudge Report and his daughter Meghan's blog. Democrats argue this shows that McCain, who turns 72 next month, is out of touch with the modern world. "My five-year-old niece can use the internet," said one gloating Barack Obama strategist. Obama, by contrast, is regularly photographed in-flight hunched over his BlackBerry. But is McCain's admission really damaging? Like the Queen not carrying money, only really powerful people don't do cyberspace. They sit at computer-free desks thinking outside the inbox, while their crack team of microserfs battle with spam or Google their way through virtual forests of information. After Tony Blair left No 10, he had to adjust to a baffling new world of mobile phones (he didn't have one as PM), texting ("Who are you?" was the reply to his first message) and email. The Bill Clinton Archive in Little Rock, Arkansas, has nearly 4m emails from the former president's staff and only two from the president himself. Admittedly, one of the latter was to astrounaut John Glenn, who was aboard the space shuttle at the time, but even then Clinton's staffers had to help him. True, some titans of business reply very quickly to emails, as their inboxes are uncluttered by spam. Three hundred emails a day is the curse of the middle manager. But, as Stanford professor Donald Knuth, one of the world's leading computer scientists, writes, "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration." Knuth hasn't checked his emails since 1990. Maybe McCain shouldn't bother to familiarise himself with the web and, if elected, perhaps Obama should check his BlackBerry at the Oval Office door.Related StoriesLocation technology finally finds its feetLetters and blogsAleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the futureCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – Jul 23, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Knol, Google's Version of Wikipedia, Goes Public
Google's answer to Wikipedia is now live. Google Knol emerged from its seven-month closed beta Wednesday, and is now open for people looking to share their expertise on everything from type 1 diabetes to how to backpack.
PC Magazine – Jul 23, 2008 9:59 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Google's answer to Wikipedia is now live. Google Knol emerged from its seven-month closed beta Wednesday, and is now open for people looking to share their expertise on everything from type 1 diabetes to how to backpack.
PC Magazine – Jul 23, 2008 9:59 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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