Category Archives: Google
The competitive advantage Apple holds over Google isn’t iOS5 or iCloud
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
About the open versus closed debate: Advice to Jobs and Rubin
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 Android, Andy Rubin, iOS, Steve Jobs
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Google Buzz: 2 years ago
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 Facebook, Google, Google Buzz, social networks, user centric web
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The one thing that Google Nexus One has over the iPhone
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 Apple, freedom, Google, iPhone, Nexus One, open, walled garden
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An open letter to Eric Schmidt
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
The lock-in of Facebook takes away our freedom
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 Facebook, freedom, Friendfeed, Google, social networks, walled garden
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Calling BS on the Real-Time Web
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 Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter
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Social Media is bound by our human limitations
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 Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, social media, social networks, web 2.0
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Shifting the balance of power inside out solves many web 2.0 issues
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 business model, Google Wave, privacy, user centric web
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Why the real-time web isn’t important
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 Friendfeed, Google, Jonathan Harris, real-time web, Twitter, user value
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On Google’s Innovator’s Dilemma
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 business model, Google, Innovator's dilemma
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Privacy is not dead, it is distributed unevenly
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 Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, privacy, Robert Scoble, web 2.0
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On Apple, Facebook, Google, Whuffie and why customer lock-in sucks
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 business model, customer lock-in, Facebook, freedom, Google, marketeer, social media
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Our need for real-time information consumption is pointless
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
Google proves that everyone else executes online advertisement strategies poorly
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 financial crisis, Google, on-line advertisement, web 2.0 business model
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On competition, web 2.0 sarcasm and watching television on Friendfeed
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 Android, Facebook, Friendfeed, Google G1, privacy
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The linking economy fails because social currency became financial currency
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 Google, linking, Mathew Ingram, Pagerank, Tim O'Reilly, trust
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Email isn’t dead yet, but it needs radical innovation
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 Alex Iskold, e-mail, Facebook, gmail, Google, innovation, Microsoft, social interaction, Yahoo
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Who are you to think you are responsible for my privacy?
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 Facebook, Friendconnect, Google, privacy, user centric web
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