Late last week Google announced Google Knol - a shot across the bow for every single publisher out there. For years Google has been claiming that they are in the game only to “organize the world’s information”, yet Knol is a play to actually create Google’s own authoritative content. This sounds a lot like Google is throwing Wikipedia, Mahalo, and its own index into one giant pot (and labeling it with an assenine moniker).

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The whole (tech) world seems to be astir today about the announcement of Google-led Android Open Source cell phone platform.

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Today we launched a new project: Art of Blog. This new site will feature one blogger per day with a verse of wisdom from their blogging experience, written in a style reminiscent of the teachings found in Sun Tzu’s Art of War.

Throughout the years the Art of War has been successfully applied to business, management, and other competitive disciplines. With an ever-growing army of new bloggers joining the ranks, it is becoming more and more important to refine your blogging skills and differentiate yourself from the masses.

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Last year I tried out a number of different start pages - Pageflakes, Google IG, Protopage, Fold (now defunct), etc. and found some issues that irked me with most of them - Google IG’s modules were too big, pageflakes had organizational problems, and I don’t even remember my beef with protopage (I think it was loading time). After all the testing, I settled with Netvibes and have been using it as my start page/feed-reader ever since.

I haven’t tried Google Reader (nor do I plan to) just because I’m making a conscious effort to stop feeding the Google borg. The big G has way too much info already. Let’s just hope Netvibes doesn’t get acquired by Google.

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A few days ago Techcrunch mentioned a new service that just came out called Linked in a Box, which lets you embed a compact widget on your site or blog with a summary of your LinkedIn profile.

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