Google Launches Wiki Site: A "Death Knol" for Wikipedia? by Andrew Goodman, Traffick.com (Dec 15)
Andrew Goodman raises some interesting points on possible consequences if Google's Knol wiki of knowledge succeeds.
+ Google likely to drive users to Knol and away from Wikipedia
+ Knol may be similar to Squidoo where authors are also highlighted.
+ Google may be able to learn from the problems of earlier models such as Wikipedia, and its own Google Answers.
All in all - Knol could be a threat to all the social, collaborative content-building sites (Squidoo, Mahalo) and perhaps About.com (because it's stuck in an old model).
Posted by Gwen at December 16, 2007 04:12 PM