Wow, listen up guys. GOOGLE is trying to make a paid wiki concept called Knols Project! Basically it’s free but they are offering 50% ad revenue sharing. So in essence, it’s a paid wiki concept.

The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content. At the heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word “knol” as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to write; we’ll do the rest.

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CouchTycoon is like Monopoly game in real life. (it seems like) The founder has given me an invitation key to give out more invitations. If anyone wants one, let me know!

Additionaly Mr. Idle wants to make starting a company as easy as writing an e-mail. Every one knows the e-mails from a friend containing a business-flash written in some sentences, replied with a comment, re-replied with an other addendum, etc… On that basis starting a venture should become possible. That´s why he decided to use simple blogs as projectspaces, where entrepreneurs can describe their venture in a few sentences that can be added with comments by friends and can grow to a financed venture in such a collaborative way.