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= Google Knol
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Very similar to <OurBigBook.com>!
People who worked on it:
* <#Udi Manber>: project lead
* https://www.wired.com/2008/07/google-knol/ mentions various engineers. The original page had photos, including the full team photo, but these died, but are visible on the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20151220002650/http://www.wired.com/2008/07/google-knol/[].
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmcmahan/[Ben McMahan]: "Developed, launched, and maintained Knol", mentioned at:
* https://x.com/benjmcmahan
* https://www.benjaminmcmahan.com/ has email `ben.j.mcmahan@gmail.com`
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mcnally/[Michael McNally] (2007-2009), "project's technical lead": mentioned at: https://www.wired.com/2008/07/google-knol/[],
* https://github.com/xiangtiandai Xiangtian Dai `xiangtian.dai@google.com`
* Mohsin Ahmed: can't find any online profiles
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssqt53fDPlY]
{title=How to use Google Knol by Hack Learning (2011)}
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One of the last users of the website for sure! The owner of that YouTube channel is a Mark Barnes:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wambyL3gOEo[]
* https://www.10publications.com/
* https://twitter.com/markbarnes19?lang=en
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PYO-fN_VgU]
{title=<Jimmy Wales> on Google's <Knol> (2008)}
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Replying to a listener phone-in question WNYC radio, mediated by Brian Lehrer.
It was about to launch it seems, and it was not clear at the time that anyone could write content, as opposed to only selected people.
Jimmy then corrects that misinformation. He then clearly states that since there can be multiple versions of each article, including opinion pieces, like <OurBigBook.com>, Knol would be very different to Wikipedia, more like blogging than encyclopedia.
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo202UiE5o]
{title=<Google Knol>: the future of academic journals? by Doug Belshaw (2010)}
Bibliography:
* https://gwern.net/wikipedia-and-knol[Wikipedia & Knol: Why Knol Already Failed] by <gwern.net> (2009). So there was some kind of monetary payment on the site. Interesting and sad.
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