Because if it appears that Google's friends do not think giving us a break during the summer informative, and the possible purchase of Digg by about $ 200 million, now know the output to open its alternative to Wikipedia: Knol. Knol is the new Google tool that aims to be the alternative to Wikipedia proposing a system in which each item will be signed by the author or authors collaborate in the same, with the possibility of economic compensation through AdSense, which allow the existence of Several articles of the same item. In addition, the possibility of restraint because other users may send changes in the articles, that the same authors must approve for entering them.
Well, having said that, we will fly over Knol what gives us so that we can write our own Knols, who is named as the articles. To do so simply need our Google account, or GMail, that we have. Once entering for the first time, our next step will be to establish global configurations of our mind.
Select the type of license, having only three: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License or all rights reserved, and then the type of collaboration: a model of cooperation open to any user, collaborative model for moderate the authors of articles (default), and closed model of collaboration, the latter allows only the owners and authors edit content without interference from other users.
It only remains to be begin writing our Knols, where indicate titles, subtitles, affiliations, our valuation, a summary and the main camp, where we create content using the basic wysiwyg editor that we provide. In addition to the right we have options that allow us to publish our articles and establish all the configurations and collaborations necessary for themselves Knols (model of collaboration, licensing, advertising presence, import from other Knols, lists of owners, authors and reviewers, etc.).
It should be borne in mind that if they want to import a Knoles, simply import a document, either. Doc,. Xls,. Pdf or text file. Txt.
Once we deliver, other users may have access to read, evaluate, to comment, according to our work and collaborative models have for each of our Knols.
One thing that if we can give is that this new tool does not follow the same visual style as the other major services of Google, and if I rush, I think its visual aesthetics responds to a site that purports to be a reference knowledge, by fonts, structure and colors used in it.
It only remains to be seen the response from participants in this new tool.
Track | TechCrunch
Link | Knol
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