This is why I linked this website onto the HB363 page. And we, in Pennsylvania, want to deprive our students of this access to information?
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24 Mar 13
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all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness"
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US alone, 2.6M people lost their jobs in 2008, followed by nearly 600,000 more last month, and on the Monday following the inauguration companies around the world, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, ING, and Phillips announced job cuts totaling over 75,000.
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Consider its predecessors. The famed Library at Alexandria (that's Egypt, not Virginia - some of you have GOT to get out more ;) ) was built circa 323 BC for an educated public, which actually meant very few people since the skills of literacy were deliberately withheld from the majority of the population. For several centuries monks were the keepers of the written word, painstakingly transcribing and indexing books as a means of interpreting the word of God. They were prized as much for their ability to write small, which saved on expensive paper, as for their piety. -
The first universities came about in the 4th century AD, the first formal encyclopedias didn't appear until the 16th century, the first truly public libraries appeared in the 19th century and proliferated in the 20th. Then suddenly comes the Internet, where, from the most remote villages on the planet, you can reach as much information as is held in thousands of libraries.
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oday, over 1.4 billion people, nearly a quarter of the world's population, use the Internet, with more than 200 million new people coming online every year. This is the fastest growing communications medium in history. How fast? When the Internet was first made available to the public, in 1983, there were 400 servers. Twenty five years later: well over 600 million.
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In many parts of the world people access the Internet via their mobile phones, and the numbers there are even more impressive. More than three billion people have mobile phones, with 1.2 billion new phones expected to be sold this year. More Internet-enabled phones will be sold and activated in 2009 than personal computers. China is a prime example of where these trends are coming together. It has more Internet users than any other country, at nearly 300 million, and more than 600 million mobile users — 600 million! Twenty-five years ago, Apple launched the Mac as "the computer for the rest of us." Today, the computer for the rest of us is a phone.
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s this happens, search will remain the killer application. For most people, it is the reason they access the Internet: to find answers and solve real problems.
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When data is abundant, intelligence will win
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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Everyone should be able to defend arguments with data. To let them do so, we need tools like the Sitemaps protocol,
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which opens up large volumes of data previously trapped behind government firewalls. Most government websites can't be crawled, but with Sitemaps, thousands of pages have been unlocked. In the US, several states have opened up their public records through Sitemaps, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science & Technology Information made 2.3 million research findings available in just twelve hours.
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Information transparency helps people decide who is right and who is wrong and to determine who is telling the truth.
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But as powerful as it can be in politics, data has the potential to be even more transformational in business. Oil fueled the Industrial Revolution, but data will fuel the next generation of growth.
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t leads to intelligence, and the intelligent business is the successful business, regardless of its size. Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the Samurai.
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In 1913, Woodrow Wilson stated, "... and yet, it will be no cool process of mere science ... with which we face this new age of right and opportunity." Perhaps, but from our perspective the cool process of mere science, fueled by ubiquitous data and intelligence, will be quite sufficient to power new generations to success.
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Rather, devices will proliferate in many directions, but all of them will converge on the cloud. That's where our stuff, not to mention civilization's knowledge, will live.
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Hal has noted, we are in a period of "combinatorial innovation", when there is a great availability of different component parts that innovators can combine or recombine to create new inventions.
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n the 1800s, it was interchangeable parts. In the 1920s, it was electronics. In the 1970s, it was integrated circuits. Today, the components of innovation are found in cloud computing, with abundant APIs, open source software, and low-cost, pay-as-you-go application services like our own App Engine and Amazon's EC2. The components are abundant and available to anyone who can get online.
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he power of innovation and the cloud are driving two trends. First, because the tools of innovation are so easy and inexpensive to access, and consumers are so numerous and easy to reach, the consumer market now gets the greatest innovations first.
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It's easy to forget that just twenty years ago the best technology was found in the workplace: computers, software, phone systems, etc. Thirty years ago all you software geniuses working on Search, Ads, and Apps would have been programmers at IBM; forty years ago, at NASA. Now, the best technology starts with consumers, where a Darwinian market drives innovation that far surpasses traditional enterprise tools, and migrates to the workplace only after thriving with consumers.
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hink of Google Video for Business, which started out as YouTube and then evolved to the enterprise. How many businesses out there have even conceived of how useful this can be to them? Not many, perhaps because only a year ago the costs of having such an internal service were prohibitive. No longer.
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Second, it used to be that every growing business would at some point have to make a big investment in computers and software for accounting systems, customer management systems, email servers, maybe even phone or video conferencing systems. Today, all of those services are available via the network cloud, and you pay for it only as you use it. So small businesses can scale up without making those huge capital investments, which is especially important in a recession. Access to sophisticated computer systems, and all the value they can deliver, was previously the realm of larger companies. Cloud computing levels that playing field so that the small business has access to the same systems that large businesses do. Given that small businesses generate most of the jobs in the economy, this is no small trend.
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We still have a long way to go in making web-based applications robust enough for businesses. Things like latency, data reliability, and security all have to be equal to or better than the currently available alternatives. The user experience needs to be fast, easy, and rich — "like reading a magazine," Larry has said. This is why we are building Chrome, Gears, V8 and more. Users now expect these apps to work perfectly for them all the time, and we need to meet that expectation.
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The real potential of cloud computing lies not in taking stuff that used to live on PCs and putting it online, but in doing things online that were previously simply impossible
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Combining open standards with cloud computing will enable businesses to conduct commerce in brand new ways. For example, there is a great opportunity to take advantage of (to quote Hal again) "computer-mediated transactions". Computers now mediate virtually every commercial transaction, recording it, collecting data, and monitoring it, which means that we can now write and enforce contracts that were previously impossible. When you rent a car, you could be offered a thirty percent discount for agreeing not to exceed the speed limit, a deal that they could actually enforce with GPS reporting! Would you take it?
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Lorena O'English"Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the Samurai." http://t.co/XsQ2DUQX
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One thing that we have learned in our industry is that people have a lot to say. They are using the Internet to publish things at an astonishing pace.
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But news isn't what it used to be: by the time a paper arrives in the morning it's already stale. As written communication has evolved from long letter to short text message, news has largely shifted from thoughtful to spontaneous.
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Presidents' Day here in the US and President Obama's recent inaugural address got me thinking about the future of the Internet,
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Jonathan Rosenberg
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when we honor the birthdays of two of our country's greatest leaders, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
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"We the people" came directly from the US Constitution, while "all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness"
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After all, we are in the midst of what is likely the worst economic situation of our lifetimes.
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In the US alone, 2.6M people lost their jobs in 2008, followed by nearly 600,000 more last month, a
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uncharted waters
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Obama asserted that we will face the moment with what he called new instruments and old values, values that have been "the quiet force of progress throughout history" and which must, once again, define our character.
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I felt like he was talking about the Internet, which is the most powerful and comprehensive information system ever invented.
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The famed Library at Alexandria (that's Egypt, not Virginia - some of you have GOT to get out more ;) ) was built circa 323 BC for an educated public
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4th century AD, the first formal encyclopedias didn't appear until the 16th century, the first t
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The first universities came ab
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GPS [Google Product Strategy]
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I believe the Internet is one of the "new instruments" that the President and the world can count on.
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Not your average 9-to-5 job.
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To paraphrase President Obama, these things will not happen easily or in a short span of time, but know this my colleagues: they will happen.
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All the world's information will be accessible from the palm of every person
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Today, over 1.4 billion people, nearly a quarter of the world's population, use the Internet, with more than 200 million new people coming online every year. T
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More than three billion people have mobile phones, with 1.2 billion new phones expected to be sold this year
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t has more Internet users than any other country, at nearly 300 million, and more than 600 million mobile users — 600 million!
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the Mac as "the computer for the rest of us." Today, the computer for the rest of us is a phone.
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search will remain the killer application. For most people, it is the reason they access the Internet: to find answers and solve real
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Too often, we force users to correct our mistakes, making them refine their searches, trying new queries until they ge
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While we're working on improving the quality of search, the web is exploding.
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Democracy of information alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action."
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s that people have a lot to say
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120K blogs are created daily
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Over half of them are created by people under the age of nineteen. I
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Today, most publishing is done by users for users, one-to-one or one-to-many (think of Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube).
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Meanwhile, those voices are struggling. The most obvious example is newspapers, which have historically been the backbone of quality original reporting, a post they have mostly maintained throughout the Internet explosion. But news isn't what it used to be: by the time a paper arrives in the morning it's already stale
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But news isn't what it used to be: by the time a paper arrives in the morning it's already stale
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As written communication has evolved from long letter to short text message, news has largely shifted from thoughtful to spontaneous
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Just like a newspaper needs great reporters, the web needs experts.
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There are millions of people in the world who are truly experts in their fields — scientists, scholars, artists, engineers, architects — but a great majority of them are too busy being experts in their fields to become experts in ours. They have a lot to say but no time to say it.
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Systems that facilitate high-quality content creation and editing are crucial for the Internet's continued growth
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We need to make it easier for the experts, journalists, and editors that we actually trust to publish their work under an authorship model that is authenticated and extensible, and then to monetize in a meaningful way. W
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"We are aided by all who want relief from the lies of propaganda — who desire truth and sincerity."
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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Everyone should be able to defend arguments with data. T
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Most government websites can't be crawled, but with Sitemaps, thousands of pages have been unlocked.
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nformation transparency helps people decide who is right and who is wrong and to determine who is telling the truth
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This is why President Obama's promise to "do our business in the light of day" is important, bec
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but data will fuel the next generation of growth
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Here at Google the words of every colleague, from associates to vice presidents, carry the same weight so long as they are backed by data
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The vast majority of computing will occur in the cloud
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All of their files, correspondence, contacts, pictures, and videos will be stored or backed-up in the network cloud and they will access them from wherever they happen to be on whatever device they happen to hold.
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To the contrary, smart programmers will figure out ways to use all that power in your hands to create great applications, and to let you run them whether or not you are connected
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As Hal has noted, we are in a period of "combinatorial innovation",
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The power of innovation and the cloud are driving two trends. First, because the tools of innovation are so easy and inexpensive to access, and consumers are so numerous and easy to reach, the consumer market now gets the greatest innovations firs
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Second, it used to be that every growing business would at some point have to make a big investment in computers and software for accounting systems, customer management systems, email servers, maybe even phone or video conferencing systems.
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Access to information has completed its journey from privileged to ubiquitous
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We intrinsically believe that the wave upon which we surf, the secular shift of information, communications, and commerce to the Internet, is still in its early stages, and that its result will be a preponderance of good.
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soberleI originally wrote this email for internal consumption; Presidents' Day here in the US and President Obama's recent inaugural address got me thinking about the future of the Internet, Google, and the challenges that lie ahead. The note borrows from a host
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President Obama
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is the most powerful and comprehensive information system ever invented.
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The first universities came about in the 4th century AD, the first formal encyclopedias didn't appear until the 16th century
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, the first truly public libraries appeared in the 19th century and proliferated in the 20th
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Internet, where, from the most remote villages on the planet, you can reach as much information as is held in thousands of libraries. Access to information has completed its journey from privileged to ubiquitous. At Google we are all so immersed in daily introspective exercises like product reviews, our GPS
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believe the Internet is one of the "new instruments" that the President and the world can count on
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We intrinsically believe that the wave upon which we surf, the secular shift of information, communications, and commerce to the Internet, is still in its early stages, and that its result will be a preponderance of good.
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All theworld'sworld's information will be accessible from the palm of every person
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Our ongoing challenge is to create the perfect search engine, and it's a really hard problem
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Information transparency helps people decide who is right and who is wrong and to determine who is telling the truth.
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All of their files, correspondence, contacts, pictures, and videos will be stored or backed-up in the network cloud and they will access them from wherever they happen to be on whatever device they happen to hold.
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The real potential of cloud computing lies not in taking stuff that used to live on PCs and putting it online, but in doing things online that were previously simply impossible.
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Our challenge is to steer incessantly toward greatness, to never think small when we can think big, to strive on with the work Larry and Sergey began over ten years ago, and from this task we will not be moved
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We intrinsically believe that the wave upon which we surf, the secular shift of information, communications, and commerce to the Internet, is still in its early stages, and that its result will be a preponderance of good.
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Oil fueled the Industrial Revolution, but data will fuel the next generation of growth.
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small businesses can scale up without making those huge capital investments
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Paul CleaverI originally wrote this email for internal consumption; Presidents' Day here in the US and President Obama's recent inaugural address got me thinking about the future of the Internet, Google, and the challenges that lie ahead. The note borrows from a host
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Google. Ours is much more than a passing role in this next phase of history, rather we have the responsibility and duty to make the Internet as great as it can possibly be
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At Google we are all technology optimists. We intrinsically believe that the wave upon which we surf, the secular shift of information, communications, and commerce to the Internet, is still in its early stages, and that its result will be a preponderance of good.
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search will remain the killer application. For most people, it is the reason they access the Internet: to find answers and solve real problems.
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The web is very social too: about one of every six minutes that people spend online is spent in a social network of some type.
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Free speech is no longer just a right granted by law, but one imbued by technology.
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the vast majority of stuff we find on the web is useless. The clamor of junk threatens to drown out voices of quality.
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As written communication has evolved from long letter to short text message, news has largely shifted from thoughtful to spontaneous. The old-fashioned static news article is now just a starting point, inciting back-and-forth debate that often results in a more balanced and detailed assessment. And the old-fashioned business model of bundled news, where the classifieds basically subsidized a lot of the high-quality reporting on the front page, has been thoroughly disrupted
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More Internet-enabled phones will be sold and activated in 2009 than personal computers.
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Add Sticky NoteThis means that every fellow citizen of the world will have in his or her pocket the ability to access the world's information.
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Add Sticky Notethe transition of information from scarce and expensive to ubiquitous and free will conclude far sooner
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And why is it so hard for teachers, who should be the best and most experienced learners, to understand that we need to demostrate and teach the skills needed to deal with all of this information?
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Add Sticky NoteEveryone can publish, and everyone will
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Hmm, this can be good or bad ;-(
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Add Sticky NoteSharing, not guarding information, has become the golden standard on the web, so not only can anyone publish, but virtually everyone does. This is both good and bad news. No one argues the value of free speech, but the vast majority of stuff we find on the web is useless. The clamor of junk threatens to drown out voices of quality.
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Seeking for the worthwhile, evaluating the source, this will be a much more difficult task in the future (like next year)
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Add Sticky NoteWith facts, negotiations can become less about who yells louder, but about who has the stronger data.
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Analyze the data!! yay!
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Add Sticky NoteHal Varian likes to say that the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. After all, who would have guessed that computer engineers would be the cool job of the 90s? When every business has free and ubiquitous data, the ability to understand it and extract value from it becomes the complimentary scarce factor.
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I cannot wait to share this with my 8th graders. Data is meaningless until you put in into context.
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More Internet-enabled phones will be sold and activated in 2009 than personal computers.
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Today, the computer for the rest of us is a phone.
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Add Sticky NoteOur infrastructure has to keep up with this growth just to maintain our current level of quality, but to actually make search smarter, our index and infrastructure need to grow at a pace FASTER than the web.
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I find this to be an excellent sentence that can be applied to public education as well.
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One thing that we have learned in our industry is that people have a lot to say. They are using the Internet to publish things at an astonishing pace. 120K blogs are created daily — most of them with an audience of one. Over half of them are created by people under the age of nineteen. In the US, nearly 40 percent of Internet users upload videos, and globally over fifteen hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The web is very social too: about one of every six minutes that people spend online is spent in a social network of some type.
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No one argues the value of free speech, but the vast majority of stuff we find on the web is useless. The clamor of junk threatens to drown out voices of quality.
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When data is abundant, intelligence will win
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With facts, negotiations can become less about who yells louder, but about who has the stronger data.
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Oil fueled the Industrial Revolution, but data will fuel the next generation of growth.
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Now, the best technology starts with consumers, where a Darwinian market drives innovation that far surpasses traditional enterprise tools, and migrates to the workplace only after thriving with consumers.
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Cloud computing levels that playing field so that the small business has access to the same systems that large businesses do. Given that small businesses generate most of the jobs in the economy, this is no small trend.
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The real potential of cloud computing lies not in taking stuff that used to live on PCs and putting it online, but in doing things online that were previously simply impossible.
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Similarly, we manage Google with a long-term focus.
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Dan DascalescuGoogle's vision on information and the Internet: all information will be accessible from one's hand; everyone will be able to publish and everyone will; making sense of the data will be crucial and statistician will be the new sexy job; most processing wi
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" We need to make it easier for the experts, journalists, and editors that we actually trust to publish their work under an authorship model that is authenticated and extensible, and then to monetize in a meaningf -
Erhardt GraeffJonathan Rosenberg reflects on the future of information, the internet, and business; touching on cloud computing and open information
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Martin Lindnerthe internal google inauguration speech for the next years. "As Harry Truman said, "Democracy of information alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action.""
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Pru MitchellHal Varian: the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians
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luke chiObama
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brian rodneyI originally wrote this email for internal consumption; Presidents' Day here in the US and President Obama's recent inaugural address got me thinking about the future of the Internet, Google, and the challenges that lie ahead.
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