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Google Goes Real-Time

December 3, 2009

Google’s DNS could have as much to do with search and adver­tis­ing as it does with other tech­ni­cal concepts.

Is Techmeme myopic?

June 2, 2008

I’m a big fan of Tech­Meme, a web aggre­ga­tion ser­vice that pro­vides, at a glance, a few of what’s being dis­cussed in the technology-focused part of the blo­gos­phere. It has allowed me to unsub­scribe from a large num­ber of RSS feeds that were pro­vid­ing me with redun­dant infor­ma­tion and I’ve long hoped for a ver­sion of Tech­Meme that would pro­vide me […]

Economic Activity in Virtual Worlds

July 31, 2006

Over the last few months, I’ve been try­ing to get a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what is hap­pen­ing with the con­cept of vir­tual worlds. Let me go into more details as to why I think this phe­nom­e­non has some real poten­tials. In this first entry in a series, I will explore the eco­nomic activ­ity sur­round­ing this phe­nom­e­non. Size of the […]

5 opportunities around social networks

June 30, 2006

In pre­vi­ous entries, I looked at the ben­e­fits and issues with social net­works. As they move for­ward, here’s a list of oppor­tu­ni­ties relat­ing to social net­works.  5. Data Mining/Research A main attribute of social net­works is how much data peo­ple pro­vide to them. On top of it, this data and the inter­ac­tion of users on those networks. […]

Building Buzz

March 21, 2006

Apple has it. Google has it. Microsoft fails at it. Yahoo! some­times does and some­times doesn’t. What I am talk­ing about is buzz and cool­ness. It seems every time Apple or Google intro­duces a new prod­uct, the buzz is high. For exam­ple, Apple recently intro­duced a $350 speaker and, while the reac­tion was more tepid than it […]

Technorati 100 Here Today Gone Tomorrow

February 21, 2006

Based on the recent dis­cus­sion about new gate­keep­ers, I recently won­dered whether we were just delud­ing our­selves in think­ing that there were gate­keep­ers. What pro­voked this line of think­ing was a recent com­ment by Doc Searls in which he says that “being an alpha blog­ger was like being an alpha para­me­cium.” This pushed me to ana­lyze the […]

Googling Netscape

February 1, 2006

The Google stock is get­ting hurt in after hours trad­ing as the company’s earn­ings dis­ap­pointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for exec­u­tives at Google to look at his­tory and, hope­fully, not repeat it. The his­tory I am talk­ing about, in par­tic­u­lar, is that of a com­pany that was in a similar […]

Getting to Know You

December 16, 2005

Google’s intro­duc­tion of new exten­sions for Fire­fox is all about know­ing more about some users. This week, Google intro­duced two new Fire­fox exten­sions: Google Safe Brows­ing and Blog­ger Web Com­ments which are pro­vid­ing richer inte­gra­tion with the desk­top and a num­ber of new fea­tures based on your surf­ing pat­terns. But the ques­tion, when look­ing at those is […]

Copy and Print

November 21, 2005

As a mem­ber of both the New York Library and Cre­ative Com­mons, I received a lot of advance notice about this week’s dis­cus­sion enti­tled “The Bat­tle Over Books: Authors and Pub­lish­ers Take on the Google Print Library Project”. And, thanks to Larry Lessig, I got a chance to be in the audi­ence dur­ing this match-up which forced me to reshape […]

Reading the Google Tea Leaves

November 6, 2005

Every time Google comes out with a new prod­uct, many peo­ple talk about how great it is and high­light the prod­uct as a cat­e­gory killer. How­ever, it increas­ingly appears to me that Google is fill­ing up holes in their offer­ing, in an attempt to match its com­peti­tors. Based on that assump­tion, I started won­der­ing if Google had any […]