It's kinda remarkable to me that no one at Google has thought to redirect google.com/drive/ to drive.google.com.

Is it just me?

Knol: like Wikipedia, but not as useful

Knol was supposed to provide a more authoritative source than Wikipedia -- articles are written by subject matter experts -- but after almost two years, the site has so many gaps in content that it's practically worthless. Google should be indexing the Web's knowledge, not providing a half-hearted storehouse for some randomly selected portion of it.

In fact, this one's been on the deathwatch list for so long, it's amazing that it's still around. But it's still listed on Google's products page.

I've never heard of Google's Knol... so perhaps it is, in fact, a product that Google should dispatch with all due haste.

Not that I care. I bring it up because it's personally funny to me that Business Insider says that Larry Page should kill Knol.

I just hope Larry waits until after the Best of Jackson party. :-)

... Apple is preparing to announce its "next big thing" -- a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the "iAd" -- Online Media Daily has learned. The new ad platform, which will be officially unveiled to Madison Avenue on April 7th, has been described as "revolutionary" and "our next big thing" by Apple chief Steve Jobs, according to executives familiar with the plan.

From the 'Things that Make You Go Hmmm' department...the article goes on to call this a battle between "frenemies" Google and Apple, giving Apple credit for doing a better job of diversifying its revenues than Google has. Local and location-based are certainly hot buzzwords for 2010... here's hoping actual local and location-based media can benefit from it!