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Fasten Your Seatbelts...It's Gonna Be A Bumpy Sight - Commenting changes - Jezebel

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:36 -0700

Fasten Your Seatbelts...It's Gonna Be A Bumpy Sight - Commenting changes - Jezebel: Epic piece on community design from Gawker.

ear in mind that inflation usually runs below the rate of wage...

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:52:14 -0700

ear in mind that inflation usually runs below the rate of wage change, thanks to productivity growth. So we’re really heading into Japanese-style deflation territory. (via Smells like deflation - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com)

"Stone-Buhr has created a simple, easy-to-use website for you to locate the family farms that grew..."

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:48:52 -0700

“Stone-Buhr has created a simple, easy-to-use website for you to locate the family farms that grew the grain that we milled to create your flour.”

- Find the Farmer

Check it out.

"They’d much rather go after the eyeballs that Microsoft doesn’t want and the people that Steve Jobs’..."

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:48:58 -0700

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They’d much rather go after the eyeballs that Microsoft doesn’t want and the people that Steve Jobs’ followers have heard of at TED.

Google, at it’s heart, is a libertarian organization when it comes to the economic theories they adhere to.

They believe the government should stay out of our business and introducing capitalism, transparency and access to new countries, societies and cultures will ultimately have positive effects (both for the company and the society).

This is their thinking, and this is why, even though it’s a less juicy story than the Goliath vs. Goliath thing everyone’s focused on, we should take great interest in Google’s OS play.

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- Why is Google Launching an Operating System? | The SiliconANGLE

Chrome OS: Google Steals A Page From Michelin Tires

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:43:00 -0700

There’s only two short articles you need to read to understand the real point of Google’s Chrome OS.

It’s the same point that the Michelin brothers made when they started writing travel guides; more demand for road travel equals more demand for rubber.

Competition isn’t everything; there’s also such a thing as an economic complement. As demand rises for one thing, demands also increases for complements (driving + tires, hot dogs + mustard, Internet-connected people + search).

The point of Chrome (and Google Voice and a bunch of other Google initiatives) is to increase the absolute number of people that are connected to the Net. This is also known as “growing the pie”.

First piece is from Mark Hopkins, a great writer contributing to John Furrier’s Silicon Angle:

What Google chooses to put it’s energy into developing and promoting has the unstated goal of growing the pool of users who interact with the Internet, and thus interact with Google.

Second piece is a September 2008 article from Umair Haque:

Chrome is a shared resource that ensures the sustainable growth of a larger ecosystem. There are two key words in that sentence. The first is shared. Google is investing in a shared resource because it has the potential to expand the pie dramatically for all, and so Google stands to benefit more than by hoarding it. The second is sustainable growth: through Chrome, Google ensures the ecosystem stays a level playing field, amplifying incentives for innovation, quality, and productivity.

Chrome lets Google play a market creation game. The game Chrome lets Google play isn’t about winning market share. It’s not about dominance “over” Microsoft. Rather, Google is using Chrome to alter the basis of competition entirely.

Any questions?

"I’m a sporadic worshiper,” said Anne Libby, a management consultant in Manhattan who often follows..."

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:29:26 -0700

“I’m a sporadic worshiper,” said Anne Libby, a management consultant in Manhattan who often follows the services on Twitter between occasional visits to Trinity.”

- Lead Us to Tweet, and Forgive the Trespassers - NYTimes.com

"Maybe since they have some responsibility for the cleanup,” Ms. Cifrino said, “it will motivate them..."

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:22:45 -0700

“Maybe since they have some responsibility for the cleanup,” Ms. Cifrino said, “it will motivate them to think about how you design for the environment and the commodity value at the end of the life.””

- A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics - NYTimes.com

Blackrock-Yeah Yeah (via thepowderedclouds) This groove is...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:26:33 -0700

Blackrock-Yeah Yeah (via thepowderedclouds)

This groove is pretty much what it’s all about

Just heard this at theknockoutsf.com …killin dj’s, recommended!!!

"It was 3 hours and 17 minutes after TMZ first announced Michael Jackson had experienced cardiac..."

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:28:44 -0700

“It was 3 hours and 17 minutes after TMZ first announced Michael Jackson had experienced cardiac arrest before it appeared as a auto completion suggestion on Google’s homepage.”

- SEOmoz | A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson’s Death Traveled Across the Web

"I have used Bing. We benefit from Microsoft’s continual re-entry into this market. We..."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:03:09 -0700

“I have used Bing. We benefit from Microsoft’s continual re-entry into this market. We encourage them to continue this strategy.””

- RealTimeCannes: Eric Schmidt on Microsoft’s Bing

Ah, the asymmetry of an ideal.

"Sad about MJ & FF? Cheer up by watching some Geo I/O talks: http://bit.ly/11aXr3 32 minutes..."

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:32:58 -0700

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Sad about MJ & FF? Cheer up by watching some Geo I/O talks:

http://bit.ly/11aXr3

32 minutes ago from web googlemapsapi (Google Maps API)

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- Twitter / Google Maps API: Sad about MJ & FF? Cheer u …

VERY weird message from Google.

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: E-mail Traffic Data Casts Doubt on Global-Village Theory

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:06:19 -0700

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: E-mail Traffic Data Casts Doubt on Global-Village Theory

Need Some 15 and 30 Second Spots? Hire Your User Base.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:54:20 -0700

Need Some 15 and 30 Second Spots? Hire Your User Base.

Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:44:57 -0700

Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab: This is the best article I’ve read in weeks

"Twitter is growing even faster than Facebook—doubling its membership in March—and would give Google..."

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:17:43 -0700

“Twitter is growing even faster than Facebook—doubling its membership in March—and would give Google access to the kind of personal information that fills Facebook News Feeds.”

- Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet

Wait, isn’t nearly 100% of Twitter’s data public?

"Zuckerberg doesn’t pull any punches, describing Google as “a top-down way” of..."

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:22:58 -0700

“Zuckerberg doesn’t pull any punches, describing Google as “a top-down way” of organizing the Web that results in an impersonal experience that stifles online activity. “You have a bunch of machines and algorithms going out and crawling the Web and bringing information back,” he says. “That only gets stuff that is publicly available to everyone. And it doesn’t give people the control that they need to be really comfortable.” Instead, he says, Internet users will share more data when they are allowed to decide which information they make public and which they keep private. “No one wants to live in a surveillance society,” Zuckerberg adds, “which, if you take that to its extreme, could be where Google is going.””

- Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet

This is one of the most ironic thought patterns EVER.

(via The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien - Triumph...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:40:24 -0700

(via The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien - Triumph Visits Bonnaroo Pt2 (06/19/09) - Video - NBC.com)

The Shift Index - CNBC.com CNBC: A li’l slow on the uptake...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:19:13 -0700

The Shift Index - CNBC.com

CNBC: A li’l slow on the uptake ;-)

thegongshow: Geek Porn (via CNet)

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:33:56 -0700

thegongshow:

Geek Porn

(via CNet)

"The industry appears to be doing everything it can not to appear vindictive in these cases"

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:13:10 -0700

“The industry appears to be doing everything it can not to appear vindictive in these cases”

- Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty - Ars Technica

Check out this article, lots of ridiculousness from both sides. Of course, the net result is: this is what happens when lawyers dictate your business strategy.