Hadoop vs Google

Robert Scoble interviews Kevin Norton from the Google Docs team who demos new offline functionality in Docs - more trouble for Microsoft. Technorati Tags: Google, productivity, video

Google has launched a competitor to Wikipedia. Called Knol or Knols - we're not quite sure - it features articles (or "knols" - units of knowledge - written by a single author but voted upon by readers. Lifehacker points out that, now Wikipedia makes up…

The FTC which regulates all things media in the US has finally given permission for Google to acquire ad network DoubleClick. Google's own take on the decision is here. Technorati Tags: advertising, Google, m&a