Chris Webb

Google Knol as an Instant Author Platform

Late yesterday, Google made an announcement about an upcoming product called knol, a free platform for creating authoritative articles on any subject. Knol will have a variety of social features and will let readers comment, rank, review and suggest edits. Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a [...]

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Facebook for Content Providers: A Look at the New York Times Application

The New York Times dips its toe into the Facebook waters today with the release of its New York Times News Quiz application.”Sigh, another Facebook application.” you say? Perhaps, but this one is particularly interesting to me for a few reasons: It is one of only a very few from traditional print publishers It is not [...]

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Reader Poll – A Little Help Here?

ckwebb.com recently underwent a redesign, and I’m still tweaking it a bit.  Although most of you read ckwebb.com via the RSS feed, many do click through.  So some of questions for you, dear readers: On the main page I currently have excerpts from the 10 most recent posts.  Do you prefer the full text on the [...]

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