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After net neutrality, will we need "Google neutrality?" - Ars Technica
not sure I agree with examples of 'price discrimination' and with warnings about google 'neutrality', but worth reading. interesting comments too
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model « abovethecrowd.com
Interesting and informed article
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Despite these challenges, it would be a dangerous strategy for any of the many threatened players in these markets to hang on to this “quality” rationalization for very long. First, Google’s products will get better over time. The sheer volume of the Android phones in the market will give them new data feeds to complement their own mapping effort. Also, they can create UGC hooks for users to embellish their own maps (like in Google Earth), offering themselves further differentiation. With regard to Android, version 3 will be better than version 2 will be better than version 1. Microsoft knows this game well.
Another perhaps even more important factor is that when a product is completely free, consumer expectations are low and consumer patience is high. Customers seem to really like free as a price point. I suspect they will love “less than free.”
Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles | Epicenter | Wired.com
this is serious actually. usenet is extremely valuable not only from historical perspective (its content) but also as an example of a distributed information and communication infrastructure of the early internet.
Cracking Open the SharePoint Fortress - Community - ComputerworldUK
so good news all around. Shame about the unmeasurable bit - the amount of communication, collaboration and innovation SharePoint has throttled...
Google "liberates" data, makes it easier to leave the cloud - Ars Technica
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The group uses open standards for data export, such as OPML for Google Reader and KML for Maps data, and isn't pushing for any new data formats. It's also not trying to launch a "consortium" publicly, though "we'd be thrilled if other companies followed our lead." For now, though, going public with the commitment to openness looks like savvy marketing; it shows a confidence in Google's products, and also offers a chance to remind users of the company's ostensible non-evil nature.
Brian Fitzpatrick: Let My Data Go!
absolutely. Choice of silos is not a free choice, which is far better for innovation. Holding onto users/customers via lock-in can't be the best way to retain them.
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Given how easy it is to try out new products on the web (and that users are more and more willing to switch web services), it seems to me that the best way to retain users in the long term is for a company to make their product so useful that you wouldn't ever want to leave. If a company stops innovating and relies on inertia and lock-in to retain their users, they're vulnerable to the next company (start-up, corporation, or otherwise) that works harder, innovates more, and just plain makes a better product for their users.
Google Creates Open-Source App Engine Project for Exporting Blog Content
worthy effort. let's make data liberated from other silos. That's MINT's objective
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The Data Liberation Front is similar in philosophy to Google's OpenSocial API effort and the Friend Connect service, MySpaceID, Facebook Connect and other efforts to let users move data
from one Web platform to the next.
Blog Converters is just one facet of a fundamental shift from siloed Web sites,
which lock users in to their services, to a more boundless Web, where users can
liberally migrate their data from one Web site to the next.
The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)
the Data Liberation Front - would have that name for MINT initiative if not already taken. But My Information, Not Theirs works too! :)
welcome to bingle
apparently, bing + google = bingle. side by side search result comparison
Google Everywhere: As the Search Giant Grows, How Much Is Too Much? - Knowledge@Wharton
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Google collects a lot of information and it's not hard to foresee a time when Google will know from your email, text messages and search behavior that you are looking for a Thai restaurant south of Market Street in San Francisco. At that moment, Google can give you a 10% coupon to just such a restaurant. "Google has the potential to deliver on that promise," says Hsu.
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"All firms have to walk the fine line between data tracking and collection, which conceptually allows them to provide better targeted services, and the privacy concerns that come with it," says Bradlow. "From the customer's side, there are two [viewpoints]. On the one hand, there are many consumers who are not concerned about privacy and would welcome improved services that essentially come at little to no explicit cost to them. Yet, there is also a segment of consumers who want their privacy maintained."
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Why Google won't create the next Twitter or Facebook or Posterous - scobleizer's posterous
scoble's got a point about most companies wanting avalanches but forgetting snowflakes.
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innovations usually come about when it doesn't seem like anyone is interested. Let's go back to 2006 when Twitter was first released. I remember showing it to other people. They thought it was the lamest thing they'd ever seen.
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The thing is to create an avalanche you've gotta make it snow one snowflake at a time. Big companies don't get that part of the equation. Why? Creating snowflakes is SMALL and isn't interesting to multi-billion-dollar companies.
Andy Kessler: Why AT&T Killed Google Voice - WSJ.com
I do hope the end of telcos oligopoly is nigh...
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With Google Voice, you have one Google phone number that callers use to reach you, and you pick up whichever phone—office, home or cellular—rings. You can screen calls, listen in before answering, record calls, read transcripts of your voicemails, and do free conference calls. Domestic calls and texting are free, and international calls to Europe are two cents a minute. In other words, a unified voice system, something a real phone company should have offered years ago.
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By the way, Apple also has a pipe—call it a virtual pipe—to customers. Its iTunes music service (now up to one-quarter of all music sales, according to NPD Market Research) works exclusively with iPods and iPhones. The new Palm Pre, another exclusive deal, this time by Verizon Wireless, tricked iTunes into thinking it was an iPod. Apple quickly changed its software to lock the Pre out, and one would expect Apple locking out any Google phone from using iTunes.
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Google local government event « News from a Nerd
excellent write up of google's attempt to break through to local government. well worth reading.
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In summary (!) the session with Google was a mixture of delight and puzzlement – they were kind enough to invite a bunch of local government geeks to their offices and give us a great insight into some excellent tools and technologies, but a little bit of research or more of a two-way conversation would have made it a constructive session that benefitted both Google and the local government sector. I understand there’s an intention to strike up more of a conversation in the wake of this session, which I hope I’ll be able to join once more details are known.
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