Google has now opened up its developing database of Knols. See the official announcement (“a knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic”), and Danny Sullivan’s helpful assessment. Danny provides a good outline of what Knol is doing and how it works. His reservation is particularly interesting:
… Keep ReadingOverall, I still lean toward not wanting Google to do this. I remain concerned that by hosting this content, it plays too much in the content owner space when its
A site release today, pepped up our search a smidgin. We now support ‘not’s’ and ‘or’s’. So you can now search for Alistair Campbell with Blair or Brown, but not talking about Iraq. This was apparently more frequent than the recent crop of New Labour memoires would have us believe:
“alistair campbell” |brown |blair -iraq:
or
a simple search string:
http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/search.do?term=%22alistair+campbell%22+%7Cbrown+
%7Cblair+-iraq%3A&issueId=2656&magazineId=377&sort=0&type=all
What is Mygazines? ….. (answer from their web site)…”Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community.”
The service appears to be in part a YouTube for magazines, and an aspirant social network. The technology is adequate to impressive: the magazines are rendered in Flash, and the user is able to mark. ‘share’, comment upon, pages and magazine articles. The system is largely automated, except that some of … Keep Reading
Jazzwise is now in our magazine shop.
Scrapbook joins the shop:
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