Earlier to day, Google launches Knol, a unit of knowledge. In one sentence, a knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic. Conceptually it is very similar to Wikipedia, as it is yet another platform for sharing articles about specific topics.
Unlike Wikipedia, Knol holds authors accountable for the articles they write. Each articles are known as a ‘knol’. Knol authors take credit for their writing by providing their credentials to identify him or herself. This is done by disclosing credit card number, phone number or anything that can be use to validate real names.
Each articles are either created by a single author or a team of author collaborating. Other users can submit changes, but they have to be approved by the article’s original authors, before any changes available to the public. It’s a more moderated Wikipedia.
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The Microsoft and Yahoo! deal is off. It’s water under the bridge living Microsoft with a disappointing note and Yahoo’s stocks plunging down. Top Yahoo executives leaving the company.
All that aside Yahoo and Google had announced a non-exclusive advertising service agreement where Yahoo could use Google’s advertising services in Yahoo’s web assets in U.S. and Canada. This gives Yahoo access to use Google’s Adsense / Adwords services throughout their site. Aspect to see Google Adsense in Yahoo’s search result pages some time soon.
In addition to that, both Yahoo and Google will work on enable interoperability between instant messaging service of both companies. This will result on a better broader online communication services. GTalk isn’t doing that well so this is a good thing for Google. You might be able to chat on your YM buddies on your GMail account in the future.
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Google likes to keep their project in ‘Beta’, forever is possible. Gmail is one of those forever ‘Beta’ products. If you notice, there is still the ‘Beta’ tag under the Gmail logo.
Up until recently nothing much had change with Gmail ever since the open it to public. It was an invite only deal in the early days, but most people got the invite.
The Gmail team takes good care of the look and feel of the whole app. Even adding a ‘delete’ button is a big deal for them. So to rollout new features they are taking a different approach.
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There are two camps when it comes to modern computer users. Some prefer to interact with their machines with a graphical user interface, while there are others who still prefer the more old school way of interaction with computers, using a command line interface.
GUI (Graphical User Interface) and CLI (Command Line Interface) both have their pro and cons. GUI makes the learning curve for users easier but a GUI based operation might take up computing resources. CLI on the other hand consume less resources but has a steeper learning curve than a GUI.
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It is no secret that I have plans to monetize this blog. The new theme now support Google Adsense. The traffic to this blog might not be outstanding but there is an increasing trend, which is good.
I’ve been monetizing my other blog (no longer in operation). I might not make as much as all those so called probloggers, but I got an extra USD100++ (That’s RM300++) every 3 or 4 months or so. I’m not complaining. Geek lifestyle is expensive.
The ads placements on this blog are still very experimental. I try to make the a clear separation between ads and content. I feel that the content should be in focus more then the ads. I might move things around for this couple of weeks.
