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Ironic, Lively is Dead.

I find it ironic that a project named Lively is, well, dead. Google announced that they are shutting down the beta project called Lively. Here’s a short excerpt from the post about why it’s being shut down. That’s why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four [...]

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Google’s Love-Hate Wikipedia Relationship

Google has shown over time, a lot of love to Wikipedia. Giving Wikipedia top SERP positions on just about every term. Michael Gray writes on the latest of whether this kind of “love” is truly justified. I agree with his standpoint. So what’s really going on? The love/hate relationship going on is knol. Google is [...]

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Google to Compete with Wikipedia

Google announced last week that it is creating a competitor to Wikipedia. Here is a small excerpt from the VP of engineering, The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that

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