Google has lunched knol in 2007 to improve web content by expert's collaboration in that content, and many expert created their account and made efforts to improve web contents.
Now as per Google announcement of shutting down some of it's products, knol is part of that.
What will be the alternative of knol?
As per google's official blog they will replace this service with Annotum (opern source wordpress based product)
"Knol—We launched Knol in 2007 to help improve web content by enabling experts to collaborate on in-depth articles. In order to continue this work, we’ve been working with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite to create Annotum, an open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress. Knol will work as usual until April 30, 2012, and you can download your knols to a file and/or migrate them to WordPress.com. From May 1 through October 1, 2012, knols will no longer be viewable, but can be downloaded and exported. After that time, Knol content will no longer be accessible."
So transfer our knol content to Annotum today.
Now as per Google announcement of shutting down some of it's products, knol is part of that.
What will be the alternative of knol?
As per google's official blog they will replace this service with Annotum (opern source wordpress based product)
"Knol—We launched Knol in 2007 to help improve web content by enabling experts to collaborate on in-depth articles. In order to continue this work, we’ve been working with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite to create Annotum, an open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress. Knol will work as usual until April 30, 2012, and you can download your knols to a file and/or migrate them to WordPress.com. From May 1 through October 1, 2012, knols will no longer be viewable, but can be downloaded and exported. After that time, Knol content will no longer be accessible."
So transfer our knol content to Annotum today.
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