Is Google turning into a Follower?

Google has a reputation for turning things on their head and shaking the market up, but this recent announcement makes them feel much more like Microsoft, who have built their dominant position by being the second mover in the market place.

Actually , I quite like the idea of Knol, which takes the Wikipedia "wisdom of crowds" principle and adds a "moderated by experts" dimension. It also seems to add other crowd tools, in particular content rating. This is the kind of approach that is more likely to find traction inside and organisation, that the simple Wiki one.

I wonder how Wikipedia will respond?

More rambling on intranets and collaboration

A colleague of mine, Angela, made an insightful comment about why content governance on an intranet is important. She says

"Google can return a plethora of pages on the internet but you know you have to rely on your own judgement as to what's good and what's rubbish - you can't apply the same to organisational content - people need to know it's all good."

Summarises it nicely!