Category Archives: Google

The competitive advantage Apple holds over Google isn’t iOS5 or iCloud

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

I followed the Apple WWDC 2011 conference yesterday via the live blogging service of Engadget and Twitter (wasn’t in SF at the time). You can find an overview of all things announced here. The expectations were high upfront. Everyone seems to expect … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Mobile OS, Apple, Google, iOS5, iPad, iPhone | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

About the open versus closed debate: Advice to Jobs and Rubin

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Steve Jobs seems to be on a crusade to defend his iOS platform against Google’s Android. The Google camp is using the open versus closed argument. Steve decides to reclaim that discussion by introducing the fragmented versus integrated argument. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Mobile OS, Apple, Google, iPad, iPhone, Mobile | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Google Buzz: 2 years ago

Posted on February 10, 2010 by

2 Years ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Dear Yahoo, Microsoft and Google mail, forget Facebook, start innovating”. Facebook was coming up strong (still is), giving headaches to everyone. And it occurred to me (and other, smarter people, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Google, social networks, user centric web | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

The one thing that Google Nexus One has over the iPhone

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

Lots of posts up this morning about the launch of the Google Nexus One. While I fully understand that most of them focus on a (technological) comparison between the Nexus One and the iPhone (the king of the smart handhelds), … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Mobile OS, Apple, Google, Nexus One | Tagged , , , , , , | 23 Comments

An open letter to Eric Schmidt

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

Dear Mr Schmidt, You are the CEO of one of the most innovative, successful and remarkable companies in the world. I deeply admire what Google has achieved in the past years. You’ve created the best search experience in the world, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexander van Elsas, Google, personal, privacy | Tagged , , | 40 Comments

The lock-in of Facebook takes away our freedom

Posted on August 14, 2009 by

Facebook is quickly becoming the biggest platform in the world. I have a serious problem with that. I don’t mind Facebook becoming a successful and profitable platform. I do mind that their current scale lets them dictate what the web … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, freedom, Friendfeed, Google, walled garden | Tagged , , , , , | 14 Comments

Calling BS on the Real-Time Web

Posted on July 1, 2009 by

The tech world is full of the real-time web. Google seems to have missed it, Twitter is on top of it but sucks at indexing it, Friendfeed is the aggregation king, and Facebook might get there by copying Twitter and … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , | 19 Comments

Social Media is bound by our human limitations

Posted on June 8, 2009 by

The definition of Social Media according to Wikipedia is: Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, social media, social networks, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Shifting the balance of power inside out solves many web 2.0 issues

Posted on June 3, 2009 by

What are the most important aspects for a User-Centric web to me? In a User-Centric web: I get to own my data and my interactions I control my privacy Services travel along with me, instead of me traveling to those … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, Google, Google Wave, privacy, user centric web | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Why the real-time web isn’t important

Posted on March 3, 2009 by

I have been thinking a bit about this notion of a real-time web. Having access to real-time information, as soon as it is published, seems to be a possible Achilles heel for Google according to some (here and here). People … Continue reading →

Posted in Friendfeed, Google, Jonathan Harris, real-time web, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , | 12 Comments

On Google’s Innovator’s Dilemma

Posted on February 19, 2009 by

Every once in a while a new product or service appears that is immediately labeled as the new ‘Google’ killer. Usually by the major tech blogs who need to say something smart to get the traffic going to their site. … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, Google, Innovator's dilemma | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Privacy is not dead, it is distributed unevenly

Posted on February 10, 2009 by

A famous oneliner from the CEO of Sun, Scott McNealy, in 2001 was “Privacy is dead, get over it”. It sounds true. This generation is growing up with Google, social networking, and having all relevant data on the web. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, privacy, Robert Scoble, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

On Apple, Facebook, Google, Whuffie and why customer lock-in sucks

Posted on January 30, 2009 by

What is the difference between customer lock-in and customer value It’s huge! Customer lock-in is a marketeers wet dream. It is a bonus received at the end of the year. It is an internally focused measurement. It is EGO. If … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, business model, customer lock-in, Customer Value, Facebook, freedom, Google, social media, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Our need for real-time information consumption is pointless

Posted on January 14, 2009 by

What if we have instant access to all the data in the world? I’m flying about 38.000 feet above ground and I’m thinking about this question. It’s part of the mission of Google, everyone should have access to all information. … Continue reading →

Posted in content aggregation, Google, information overload, inspiration, search engines | Tagged , , , , | 17 Comments

Google proves that everyone else executes online advertisement strategies poorly

Posted on October 21, 2008 by

A few posts drew my attention this morning. First, Nick Carr points out that Google is changing the way the web appears, depending on whether or not you are using the Google search engine: First Click Free allows publishers that … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, free business model, Freemium, Google, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

On competition, web 2.0 sarcasm and watching television on Friendfeed

Posted on October 16, 2008 by

A few things that caught my attention this morning. First, an excellent review by Walter Mossberg on the new Google phone called G1. He describes many of its new features, strengths and weaknesses. My take on it? Competition is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Mobile OS, business model, Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, Mobile Internet, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The linking economy fails because social currency became financial currency

Posted on October 3, 2008 by

Trust is a difficult subject. How do we trust someone? It’s pretty difficult in real life. We tend to trust people we know well or people that are trusted by people that we know well. We gain trust by interacting … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, Mathew Ingram, Tim O'Reilly | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

Email isn’t dead yet, but it needs radical innovation

Posted on July 2, 2008 by

Alex Iskold has a good write up on the competition e-mail is facing from broadcasting tools like blogs and twitter, discussion tools like forums and wiki’s, or business tools like Todo, CRM. He asks himself is E-mail in danger? He … Continue reading →

Posted in Alex Iskold, e-mail, Facebook, gmail, Google, Microsoft, social interaction | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Who are you to think you are responsible for my privacy?

Posted on June 18, 2008 by

An interesting panel discussion with Google and Facebook opposing each other about data portabilty. Facebook refuses for now to implement Google’s FriendConnect. The reason Facebook won’t, according to spokesmen, lawyers and other executives is that Google violates their terms of … Continue reading →

Posted in advertisement trap, business model, Facebook, Friendconnect, Google, privacy, user centric web | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

The incredible power of being able to think and act big

Posted on June 17, 2008 by

Possibly the most important characteristic of web giant Google is their ability to think and act big. Thinking big is really hard to do but has made them the most successful web company in history. Google, the name, refers to … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Mobile OS, Friendconnect, Google, Jaiku, Mobile Internet, OpenSocial, Orkut | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments