Let the Games Begin: Knol Arrives

Knol has gone public today! Apart from meaning there will be an additional entry into the Oxford English Dictionary for a new word, let's see how this project stacks up against the 1.0-wiki Wikipedia and the 2.0-wiki Citizendium. Knol, Wiki-3.0, has some pretty nifty features that looks to be best of breed.

• Quick wiki interface
• WYSIWYG editing (are you listening mediawiki?)
• Real Names of Authors (thank you Citizendium!)
• Ability to lock collaboration on your article so that controversial points of view don't get washed out by the populace (1000's of Global Warming articles within the month...)
• Article ranking
• Revenue sharing (knowledge = $$?)

Pretty awesome stuff. I can't wait to get started.

http://knol.google.com