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Google’s Knol: The Monetizable Wikipedia

Published on Thursday July 24, 2008 in Technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Via Digg (via TechCrunch)

Today Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alternative that holds authors accountable for the articles they write. Each article is created by a team of authors, who receive attribution, and are allowed to take part in a rev-share for AdSense ads on their page.

I’m not entirely convinced that Knol will become that popular. This day in age, being first has a lot to do with a product’s success. While Knol address the one main criticism of Wikipedia, article integrity, that alone doesn’t look like enough to chip away at Wikipedia’s popularity and sheer volume of information. That being said, I do believe that the open editing of Wikipedia has held up better than most would expect. I’ll be interested to see how the perception of Wikipedia changes (particularly in academia) over the next several years.

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The new face of Facebook

Published on Monday July 21, 2008 in Technology and Trendspotting. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Everyone’s favorite procrastination tool is due for it’s 2nd major makeover. I’ve been playing with the new version for a little while now and evidence of other social networking sites have made their way into Facebook’s new design. The look and feel is mostly the same; the single largest change is the merging of the newsfeed with the wall reminiscent of Twitter or Pownce. You’ll also notice the ability to clean up your profile by using tabs to organize all your content; applications no longer dominate the page. With these changes, emphasis is being put more on social interaction. While I like the direction Facebook is taking, most Facebook users will probably immediately oppose the change espescially given the fact that the Twitter-like concept of the new Facebook is still largely unfamiliar to most people. I fully expect hundreds of “Petition to change Facebook back to the way it was” groups to pop up.
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YouTube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!

Published on Thursday July 3, 2008 in News and Technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user’s names, and IP addresses to Viacom.

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Evil Eyes and Shipping

Published on Wednesday June 25, 2008 in Sports and Technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Tinted for enhanced visibilityYesterday, I was at Lenscrafters looking to check out a pair of these Nike Maxsight sport-tinted contact lenses. I think they would have totally creeped out anyone I would run against next outdoor track season. Except they don’t make them anymore. Does any one know of any similar products?

Also, I recently stumbled upon a website called Track the Pack. It allows you to track your packages, but the reason I like this site is because you can track all your packages, regardless of service, in one place. Plus the all FedEx’s website is hideous anyways (not that the other ones are much better). Another cool feature is the ability to save your packages so you can simply log in later to check your packages’ status as opposed to having to copy-and-paste several tracking numbers each time you want to check. Track the Pack also displays a mini Google map to provide a visual as to where your package is geographically. There’s a spiffy webapp for everything nowadays isn’t there?

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