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Gerrit Eicker 08:49 on 24. November 2011 Permalink
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  Gerrit Eicker 08:49 on 24. November 2011 Permalink | Reply

  Google: “This is our third blog post in our off-season spring cleaning series. To recap, we’re in the process of shutting a number of products which haven’t had the impact we’d hoped for, integrating others as features into our broader product efforts, and ending several which have shown us a different path forward. Overall, our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, truly beautiful Google user experience. In terms of the details, here is the latest update: Google Bookmarks Lists, Google Friend Connect, Google Gears, Google Search Timeline, Google Wave, Knol, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) … [The Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal] initiative was developed as an effort to drive down the cost of renewable energy, with an RE<C engineering team focused on researching improvements to solar power technology. At this point, other institutions are better positioned than Google to take this research to the next level. So we’ve published our results to help others in the field continue to advance the state of power tower technology, and we’ve closed our efforts. We will continue our work to generate cleaner, more efficient energy – including our on-campus efforts, procuring renewable energy for our data centers, making our data centers even more efficient and investing more than $850 million in renewable energy technologies.”

  GigaOM: “Why Google ditching its clean power research isn’t a big deal – Google will still continue to invest in clean power projects, Google spokesperson Parag Chokshi tells me. Google has already invested $850 million into solar and wind projects in the U.S., like the world’s largest wind farm in Oregon, and solar rooftop funds from SolarCity and Clean Power Finance. … Google invests in clean power projects like these for two reasons: Google can get a low risk return on its investments in clean power. In the range of 12 percent or so for some projects, according to analysts I’ve interviewed (updated). Google also wants to be able to procure more clean power for its growing energy needs for its data centers, so backing some of these clean power projects can help with that.”

  TC: “Since Google CEO Larry Page took the helm this past spring, one of the company’s most visible initiatives has been to trim and shut down its products that haven’t taken off. These have included Aardvark, Google Desktop, Fast Flip, Code Search, Buzz, Jaiku, and even Google Labs – and today, it’s announcing a new batch of products that will be shut down in the coming months. … Knol, in particular, comes as something of a surprise to me – because I figured Google had already shut it down. … Google didn’t seem to allocate many resources to the project, and it certainly didn’t put much emphasis behind it from a press standpoint – I can’t remember the last time I was pitched on a new Knol feature or milestone. Knol will live on at Annotum.org, which is powered by WordPress and was built in collaboration with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite.”

  WordPress: “Today, we’d like to give a warm welcome to Google Knol users who are migrating to WordPress.com. Begun in 2007, the Google Knol project has provided people in many fields with a place to share their knowledge and expertise with the world using a platform designed for scholarly authoring and publishing. … We here at WordPress.com are thrilled to provide an easy, fast way for Knol authors to move to their new homes without the need for configuring their own installation. And WordPress.com users who would like to start new sites powered by the Annotum platform can activate one of the two new Annotum-enabled themes on new blogs and get started right away. It’s yet another way the WordPress platform and WordPress.com are enabling the democratization of publishing and sharing of information with the world.”

  Annotum: “We are pleased to announce the release of Annotum version 1.0 as a hosted theme on WordPress.com, a free theme on WordPress.org, and a freely available download on GitHub (forks welcome). I could write a long post about the many months of hard work by many people at Google, PLoS, NLM, Automattic, and particularly Crowd Favorite, all of whom deserve, and receive, my sincere thanks. But instead I want you to get started using this fantastic new tool to author and publish beautiful, peer-reviewed scholarly articles and journals.“

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  Gust MEES 22:46 on 15. December 2011 Permalink | Reply

  Hi,

  WordPress-Annotum is a fantastic tool which I recommend to everybody who is in need to publish articles and posts with different co-authors, especially to educators and Universities as also to authors who want to publish together on specific themes…

  As a Knol Author I started a new WP-Annotum blog http://knolannotummigration.wordpress.com/ where Knol Authors could find some help about the migration as well as new WP-Annotum users will find some gems…

  Greetings: Gust

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