The New Media Diva

If you’re in CH Switzerland 6-8 Feb 2008, you may want to hit up the LIFT Conference: “LIFT is a series of events intended to facilitate and promote discussion about new technologies and their impact on our society. The conference happens in both Geneva (Switzerland) and Seoul (South Korea) every year, with smaller events happening all around the year.”

I’ve signed up.

Google’s getting in the wiki game.

Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge

“Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.

Not sure if it’s a “Wikipediakiller,” but it may make it catch a cold. Note to Google: You may want to put something at knol.google.com or google.com/knol just to keep the buzz up.

A new form of social networking - International Herald Tribune

The world’s fourth-largest Internet search engine - a distant fourth, way behind Google, Yahoo and MSN - is a business-to-business provider, selling search services to corporations.

But Exalead, based in Paris, now wants to broaden out to see what it can do in the consumer market. Two weeks ago, it started tests of a “social search” concept it calls Baagz.

I checked out Baagz and signed up for an invitation. I’ll let y’all know what comes of it.