Is a knol a scientific publishing platform?

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Google has recently released knol, which most people are calling Google’s version of Wikipedia. The main difference between a knol and a wikipedia article is that a knol has associated authorship or ownership against an article. This factor has caused some issues an outcries focusing on the merits of the [...]

CARMEN – A Scalable Science cloud

Paul Watson presents a talk on CARMEN a the Google Seattle Conference on Scalability.