Google has revealed the wikipedia alternative, Knol, to the public, letting people write about anything. The key differences are authors can opt to show Google ads to make revenue and authors can choose collaborate when moderating their work. Knol is still young and shy of 7 million edited articles available through Wikipedia. Full press release after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Xinu – Check quickly your PageRank, backlinks and much more – just punch in the url and quickly get back a lot of information about the site, including validation of css, html and rss, backlinks from a number of services, the number of pages indexed by Google, Yahoo and more.

A handy tool to check on page health and popularity.

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Why be stuck with a boring calendar. The the human calendar features pictures of … humans to liven the whole date thing up.

Also available as a portable version, available for Google Homepage, MySpace or just about any website, blog or whatever. Soon to be available as a Mac Dashboard item (soon) and a Windows Vista Sidebar (less soon) as he’s trying to “locate a 10 foot pole”