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Ask HN: Is anyone working on this problem? any startups?
by username3 15y ago
Ask HN: Is anyone working on this problem? any startups?
- sp332 15y agoCitizendium was supposed to recruit experts to write articles, it's basically dead. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/five-year-old-wikipedia-fork-is-dead-in-the-water.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/five-year-ol... Google's Knol would have avoided a bunch of procedural mess, but it's been shuttered. http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/23/googles-knol-the-monetizable-wikipedia/ http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/23/googles-knol-the-monetizabl...
- tokenadult 15y agoThanks for mentioning that Knol has been shuttered. The TechCrunch link you kindly shared announces the launch of Knol, but I found the link http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/22/google-announces-plans-to-shutter-knol-friend-connect-and-more/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/22/google-announces-plans-to-s... that mentions Google abandoning Knol.