Is Google Stealing Authors’ Copyright With Buzz?
2 years ago I shared about a blogger and follower/friend of mine, Ali Akbar, who purchased the domain, googleappsengine.com (he still owns it) in order to create an AppEngine-related blog (since Google apparently forgot to purchase the domain). Ali received a threatening Cease-and-Desist from Google shortly after asking him to immediately discontinue use of the […]
Read more...Facebook to Developers: "You Decide"
By the time I hit publish on this 5 other bigger blogs will have probably already covered this, but this deserves some praise. One reason I love the Facebook Platform is because they really seem to care about API developers. They do things the “right” way. For instance, they have a beta site where they […]
Read more...Speculation: Expect Something BIG in the Area of Real-Time at F8
I don’t do speculative posts like this too often, except around Facebook’s F8 developer events for the most part. The last one I predicted was that Facebook would announce a Mobile Platform at F8 – the announcement did occur along with Facebook Connect. The first F8 was the announcement of the Facebook API, which revolutionized […]
Read more...Google Changes the Way You Read My Feeds – You Still Have no Control
Louis Gray just reported a new way Google is trying to control the problem of mine and Louis’s and Robert Scoble and Mashable, and more of the more active feeds and streams on Google Buzz taking over the streams of our followers. The problem that was occuring is that for those with a lot of […]
Read more...Did Google Reader Just Turn on the Firehose?
Google’s big push recently has been on enabling open, real-time technologies to publish, read, and interact with its new service Buzz. Reader, its RSS subscription and website reading service, is one of the biggest tools to integrate with the service. So much that my Reader contacts are now my Buzz contacts. Until now, Google Reader, […]
Read more...Is Google’s Position Towards Default Privacy a Good Thing?
I’ve been openly critical about Google’s lack of privacy in their launch of Buzz (and I argue other things as well), and its’ opt-in attitude towards opening up contacts and settings people previously thought were private. That doesn’t change. However, I’d like to spend some time here playing devil’s advocate and share how perhaps, Google […]
Read more...Twitter Hires 140th "Character", Adds Lucene Committer Michi Busch to its Search Talent
It’s no secret Twitter has a desire to have a stronger search presence. With business models that thrive on content publishing and organization, a strong search product is necessary to provide the most revenue down the road. Just today, while announcing its 140th employee and celebrating to the music of BT, Twitter hired Michael (Michi) […]
Read more...What Buzz Needs to Make a "Sting" in Facebook
There’s a new Buzzword in town that’s “Buzz” lately and as I mentioned earlier, some are already calling things “dead” because of it. Most of this is due to the size of Google, the masses it can reach, and the overall usefulness of the service. Personally, I think all the “dead” articles are all a […]
Read more...Google Has Large Company Syndrome
I’ve worked for various companies over my career. Some of those very small (including my current startup), and some very large, international and public corporations. I currently work with similar clients of various sizes and types. Each and every one of them shared characteristics that come with the turf in managing a large or a small company. […]
Read more...Horton’s Megaphone – The Competition for Discovery
There’s a lot of “Buzz” going around lately about Google Buzz being a Facebook or Myspace killer. Jason Calacanis, Mahalo founder and lover of Tesla, goes to the extent of saying with Buzz, Facebook lost half its value. Thomas Hawk, an amazing photographer and avid FriendFeed user, stated on FriendFeed that Google Buzz is going […]
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