「Wikipedia創業者のジミー・ウェールズ氏、米Google Knolについて語る・・・・」

Wikipediaの創業者であるジミー・ウェールズ氏によると、米Googleが開始した「Knol」(Wikipedia対抗サービス)は、"Wikipedia"のソーシャル・アプローチと異なるという。同氏によれば、あくまでWikipediaはフリー精神に基づいており、しかも、オーナーシップの概念と異なると述べている。つまり、不特定多数の知識共有という方向性は類似しているかもしれない。だが、その目指す方向性は異なっているのかもしれない.....

「心地よいカスタマー・エンスペリエンス」を求めて、Prewireブログの情報探索はつづく・・・

A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.

The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.

With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!

Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.

Knol is open to everyone (Google blog)