Google Knol Launches; More Like Squidoo than Wikipedia Google has just launched Knol to the public, dubbed by many as the search giant’s Wikipedia killer. My first reaction: not so fast. While Knol offers a Saved By: CostPerNews | Vie...

About six months after first announcing a private beta test of its Knol project, Google has thrown the doors open, and is inviting anyone who wants to create an entry to jump on board. Unlike Wikipedia — to which it is most often compared — Go...

Is Google’s Knol an attack on Wikipedia or Could it hurt Smaller Publishers like bloggers more? So today Google finally opened up and launched Launched Knol (it’s been coming for a while) a place where people can publish ‘authoritative a...

The latest Google project to hit the scene is dubbed “Knol” and is, quite frankly, the one project the guys over at Wikipedia, Mahalo, and Yahoo Answers should watch extremely closely.  From an SEO perspective, Google search algorithms have a...

Hoping to capitalize on the dominance and growth of social encyclopedias, Google has Wikipedia in its cross hairs with Knol (includes shades of Squidoo and Mahalo). Users can create a page on any topic that includes text, images and links. Moderated colla...

image credit - Evstafiev via Wikipedia Depending on who you are it is likely that as you read this post you will exhibit a reaction that is explained by Social Judgement Theory... How many times have you thought..."If only I kn...

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In my recent cruise trip to Stockholm (c the gallery here), I found this "Sauna Club". Just did my homework on it, and I was really happy about this sauna...From Wikipedia:A sauna (pronounced /ˈsɔːnə/, or as Finnish [ˈsɑunɑ]) is a small ...

Image via Wikipedia Do you know what they say or where they go? Recently an HR manager at a financial firm was copied on an e-mail regarding the pronunciation of another employee’s name. Throughout the day, e-mails concerning this subject were being bo...

Image via Wikipedia I’ve often been asked, “what do you do now that you’re retired?” Well, I have a chemistry background and one of the things I enjoy the most is turning beer, vodka and wine into urine. And, I’m pretty darn...

Wikipedia (with help from Ivar Jacobson) defines actors as: [S]omething or someone which exists outside the system under study, and that take part in a sequence of activities in a dialogue with the system, to achieve some goal: they may be end users, oth...

...ived some very useful - and effective - suggestions. Social networking at its best!I found this photo of a Tibetan Spaniel on Wikipedia. Louie's nowhere near as regal as this beauty....

...controllersiPhone games using the new SDK (might be hard with few iPhones in Canada)games driven by web content sources (think Wikipedia: The FPS)alternate reality games...

Believe it or not, many people the world over are still highly superstitious, even about sex. As defined by wikipedia, a superstition is an irrational or invalid belief about the relation between certain actions. The superstitious individual erroneously b...