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Google's Knol: it's a Wikipedia Jim but not as we know it
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| Google is a lot of fun. For all the valid criticisms about security, privacy
| and potential monopoly the internet is probably a better place for Google
| being there. It could have been worse. It could have been a Microsoft product
| and the needle on the fudometer would have gone through the red and off the
| scale. Google have the resources, technical and financial, to launch an
| armada of projects. They can afford a high failure rate. For every Google
| Base there is Google Chrome, for every Orkut there is the Android phone. You
| have to speculate to accumulate. However, Knol is a stinker. It is
| misconceived and badly executed. Google’s motives have nothing to do with the
| disinterested pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and everything to do with
| monetizing content and pageranking. Free software would be ill served by it.
| So, Mr. DiBona, I’m afraid that it’s a matter of drag and drop the knols into
| the recycle bin. If you don’t know how you could always look it up in
| Wikipedia. Just a thought.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/googles_knol_its_wikipedia_jim_not_we_know_it
Why Patent Exhaustion Matters
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| One of the biggest challenges facing the patent system right now—especially
| in the IT industry—is the fragmentation of patent rights. The combination of
| more patents, broader patents, and increasingly complex products has made
| patent clearance extremely difficult for high-tech firms. Patent exhaustion
| helps because it reduces the number of times a given patent needs to be
| licensed for any given consumer product. A firm can be reasonably certain
| that if an upstream supplier has already licensed a particular patent, that
| firm doesn't need to negotiate a license itself. That's a good thing because
| negotiating patent agreements is far from costless. Licensing a patent at one
| point in a supply chain is almost certainly more efficient than a system that
| requires a fresh patent license for every step in the supply chain.
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/tblee/why-patent-exhaustion-matters
Related:
Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
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| Knols will include strong community tools. People will be able to submit
| comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on. Anyone will be
| able to rate a knol or write a review of it. Knols will also include
| references and links to additional information. At the discretion of the
| author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google
| will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of
| those ads.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
Openness 'Mandatory,' Says Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
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| Wales is on the board of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that has
| released licenses for music, photographs and other content that are more open
| than traditional copyrights. He also predicted that as Creative Commons
| licenses become more popular, it will help contribute to the culture of
| openness and transparency that is taking shape online.
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| "Openness and transparency are going to be absolutely mandatory," Wales
| said. "The public expects it, the public deserves it, and there are ways that
| we can make that happen today."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60153.html
Wikipedia - $1,000,000 in donations!
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| Wikipedia entered 2007 as one of the most visited 10 websites
| in the world. What could be more relevant as a proof of success?
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http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/01/10/wikipedia-1000000-in-donations/
Wikipedia becomes a class assignment
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| University of Washington-Bothell professor Martha Groom has more of an "If
| you can't beat 'em, join 'em" response to the online encyclopedia that anyone
| can write or edit.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_wikipedia_term_papers
Microsoft Hires Programmer [Shill] to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79130/index.html
Google goes wild for wikis
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| On Tuesday, JotSpot, which provides a hosted service mainly
| to corporate customers for building wikis, announced that it
| had been acquired by Google.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6131283.html
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