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Friday, December 14, 2007
Google wants its own Wiki site
Google is looking to displace Wikipedia.
It’s started a site called Knol, for knowledge, and has invited a select group of users this week to test it..
I’m not surprised by the move. Google is trying to gobble up everything that’s popular on the Web.
I use Wikipedia when I need a quick reference for something although sometimes the entries aren’t helpful.
The question is: Would Wiki users stick with the popular site or jump to Google’s because it most certainly would show up higher in a search list?
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Apple’s iPhone may get GPS capability
It looks like Apple is joining the growing list of companies that are finding ways to use the global-positioning system in their own devices.
The Web site Engadget says it received a fuzzy-looking image of an Apple iPhone showing a GPS application under development by the Dutch company, TomTom.
If that’s true, Steve Jobs is using his head. It’s a different type of cell phone distraction, but a GPS capability would trump just about anything the iPhone doesn’t already have, except for maybe the clunky wireless network it uses.
I wonder if Apple can make it available by summer when everybody’s taking drive trip for vacation.