Knol is Down for Maintenance

At 8.20 am, 28.6.2009 (Indian standard Time) message is coming that knol is down for maintenace. Even google analytics does not seem to have been updated with yesterday's visit information.

Patent In the Name of Knol Team Members on Online Content Collaboration

US2009/0157608, “Online Content Collaboration Model”, is a patent document filed by the Google in December 2007. Its inventors are two Googlers, William Strathearn and Michael McNally,both working on the knol team.

Information first seen by me in

http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/06/19/a-glimpse-of-the-google-collaborative-plumbing/

Goal of Knol: Knol Authors 100,000 - Knols 1 million - Top 100 Website

Knol can set ambitious goals for the second year of its operations. Its first year operations provide it with a foundation using which it can aggressively promote its platform among many professionals to share their knowledge through knols.

Google's strengths can be leveraged now.

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/goal-of-knol-knol-authors-100000-knols/2utb2lsm2k7a/1329#

KNOL DIRECTORY

Knol Directory - List of Interesting Knol Lists

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/1308#

This is a list of knols specially selected by the knol platform as knols of good quality. Within this list knol quality systems gives to some knols special badges as most viewed knols and quality knols.

Many people want to have knol directory to access knols more easily. Even though there is a browsing list in knol, it is given in page number wise and hence navigation was not easy. Ths directory indicated in this blog post gives them in alphabetical order that makes navigation easy.