simondelliott

Do you love google?

A good freind of mine asked if I loved google ….
This is my answer.

I love google, in the same way that I would love my wife if I were to be married to a super model.
I.e. every thing is great but … at the back of my mind I am always worried that she is having an affair.

Looks like CISCO are going for the whole set

My friend just sent me this link
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/02/cisco-shells-out-44-5-million-for-set-top-box-unit-of-chinese-cable-company-dvn/

and they bought Tandberg last month
So what would CISCO want with an STB manufacturer and a playout hardware manufacturer.

I would place bets on them now buying a content aggregation company or distribution channel.
It looks like they are trying to complete the jigsaw

Google want to put all the worlds books into a virtual world

Yesterday I read in the FT that google were planning to put all the books in the world onto their web site.

The surprising thing is that this is not big news !
The main body of the story was on page 10 !!!!

I am amazed that such staggering feats of achievement are not bigger news. I am even more amazed that the only group of people who are noticeably objecting to this are the French culture ministry.

Why is it that a commercial organization are the first ones to achieve such a noble endeavor? In the past this would have been a public work.

Ive just watched the wave video

Its very similar to the early Microsoft presentations that I went to in the ninties.

21 seconds to comply.

User interface idea, How people will do their jobs

augmented reality application in london

woodland protection league

New character – Ecobunny

ecobunny a new character he is a woodland worrier, your ass is grass, and Im gonna nibble it

Get out of Enterprise Google!

If you combine the modern Californian way of talking and a bit of old school religion you get Googles moto

Dont Be Evil

Here are things you need to know about them

#1

What we see of google on the out side is just the tip of the ice burg. For every idea that gets turned into product they make a 1000 that stay on the inside … this is the innovation methodology

#2

The google Microsoft story is the same as the Microsoft IBM story, to find out what happens to google next read a book.

#3

Google are forcing telcos to behave as a dumb pipe but the Telco’s are not going down without a fight, their response  is IMS.
Both outcomes are anti consumer !

#4

Google are kicking arse in the enterprise space
Google Search appliances are flying off the shelves to the big companies,
For the Small companies the rate of signup to google apps is astonishing
In the education sector they will soon be standard ! especially in higher education. Google K2 is free for this sector and in UK market schools are switching from RM so fast that RM cannot keep up with demand to turn off their services.
The hand that rocks the cradle …

From my  perspective …

Googles applications are great,
how they run their company is great
their attitude to embracing odd balls and weirdos is great.

I just cant help thinking that Its a pathetic that they choose to waste their dreams, talent and creativity on such a pathetic goal as taking down Microsoft

Google if you are listening, another way of saying Don’t be evil, is to say love everyone, and that includes the small state run telcos in little socialist european countries, the developers who want to make a living selling software and microsoft.

Sort it out … you can do so much better that.