Are you using Knol?

Incase you haven't heard Knol (released by by Google July 23, 2008) has kicked up quite a big of dust in the land of "Wiki" styled pages. Knol vary's from Wikipedia in many ways, but they are both built around the same concept.

"Knol is a Google project which aims to include user-written articles".

As soon as you start publishing on Knol and getting used to the UI (which doesn't take long at all) you will notice it has the "Google feel", by this I mean the UI is clean, easy to use and you just, know where everything is. Writing/Editing any Knol (what Google uses to refer to the articles) is very easy, formatting, links, images, videos, etc can be added using the toolbar


As I hope you can see from the image the toolbar contains everything you need and I bet you can tell me what all the buttons in the toolbar do without going and checking can't you? ;)

Users are also able to set permissions of their articles, there are three permission settings anyone can use for their article:

1. Open collaboration model - All signed in users may edit the Knol.


2. Moderated collaboration model - All signed in users can suggest edits in the Knol, but these need approval from an author before being published.


3. Closed collaboration model - Only owners and authors may edit the Knol.

Some other neat features of Knol include the choice of license you publish your "Knol's" under (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License and All Rights Reserved).

The future of Knol looks bright, with it's clean interface and constantly expanding user base and not too mention to boat loads of money Google can throw at Knol it's going to improve, it's going to get more users and it's already got Wiki worried.

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