Google has announced that it will soon be launching a new service/tool for worldwide users called Google Knol (short for knowledge) which will encourage authors to contribute signed encyclopedic entries into a massive knowledge base. Basically the key concept is to create a free open-source encyclopedia (Just like Wikipedia) where people can come and write about any topic.
“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.”
Spipra is a free commenting system for your website or blog and allows you to comment on any webpage on the web. Their goal is to make Spipra a central location for commenting on the web, allowing users to comment on multiple websites with just one login ID.
After placing a small button or text link on the pages of your site, your visitors will be able to easily leave comments for that particular page.With just one account, you can leave comments on Spipra for any page on the web.In an effort to reduce spam, they have placed a “Flag this post as spam” button that appears with every post. When a post is reported as spam, notification will be sent to a moderator for further investigation.
Think how convenient it could be to establish a startup with an ‘exit’ guaranty in a sum of several hundreds millions bucks, a kind of a premature agreement with one of the ‘net monsters’ that promise you an M&A with an x100 return in five years. Actually it will be so convenient that it will make us (you) a ‘hollow millionaires’ (someone who acts like a millionaire before he actually is and have done nothing to achieve this status) plus it will squeeze out all the fun, spirit and interest of setting and building the startup, which eventually, on my opinion, will end up with zero economic value company in five years or less. Making it simple, if there is no challenge there is no value.
I meet entrepreneurs, partners and investors on a day to day basis, and somehow I have developed (keeping modesty on hold for second) a sense which helps me define between those who are challenged and eager to make a change, coin an innovation and deliver an idea and those who are here ‘just to make money’, as they have heard startup life is ‘money on the floor’. The latter are doomed to fail or at least meant to constantly argue about the future, make lavish expenses in their squeezed startups and fly business class overseas instead of ‘fly their business’ overseas.
The new funding will facilitate commercial implementation with additional carriers as well as expand the depth and breadth of Mobile Posse’s advertising sales division.
NewsGator Technologies Inc., a pioneer in RSS and Enterprise 2.0, announced today that it has closed a $12 million round of funding. Led by new investor Vista Ventures, the round also includes existing investors — Mobius Venture Capital and Masthead Venture Partners. NewsGator also announced the addition of Lisa Reeves, a general partner at Vista Ventures, to its Board of Directors.
“We are delighted to partner with Vista and we appreciate the continued support from Mobius Venture Capital and Masthead,” said J.B. Holston, president and CEO of NewsGator. “We also welcome the addition of Lisa Reeves to our Board of Directors. Ms. Reeves has 15 years of experience at SAP AG, including managing its venture fund, as well as senior operational roles both in the U.S. and Europe. Lisa’s unique enterprise software and venture investing expertise will be invaluable as NewsGator continues to lead the Enterprise 2.0 market.”
December 31st, 2007 by Social Guy
