Posts with tag "Google"

Braindead TechCast EP 3 – After the Buzz wears off Google becomes an ISP

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Posted 1196 days ago

braindead So what would happen if some-one started a social network and no-one came to the party?

That sure seems to be the general reaction the day after the birth of Google Buzz which Sean and I discuss on today’s show. Now of course because this is Google and the tech blogosphere can be a fickle beast tomorrow could see a whole new attitude about the service.

But then Google seems to get a pass on a lot of things it does which you can easily see by the lack of follow-up on its supposed pull out from China. BTW how’s that going Google?

Of all the news that came out today the best had to be the announcement that Google was going into the ISP – I just wish it had been some-one else doing this.

Posts referred to in the show

BREAKING: Google Buzz is brilliant, Facebook just lost half its value. – Jason Calacanis
WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw – Business Insider
Google Doesn’t Want to Be an ISP — It Wants to Be a Rabble-rouser – GigaOM
Google’s real buzz – the shot across the bow of broadband providers – The Inquisitr

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Facebook, Google and Twitter: the muddy waters of social connectors

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Posted 1222 days ago

Which to use – Facebook Connect or Google Friend Connect?

It’s a question a lot of blogs and social media services have probably been asking themselves.

Well if the reports coming out of TechCrunch are any indication Twitter is looking to throw their hat in this confusing field.

The problem for blog owners I think is figuring out what benefits – if any – the available connector services bring to the table. When it comes to both Facebook and Google’s offerings I am still ambivalent.

Part of the argument used is that they help bring traffic to one’s blog and to a minor degree help centralize the conversation by making signing to post comments easier. This is of course if you use one of the 3rd party commenting platforms or plugins for your blogging platform.

Personally – I’m not seeing it.

If Google’s move is really about censorship then let’s do it right.

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Posted 1224 days ago

censorship

Twitterland is all abuzz about Google’s threat to pull out of China because of censorship. I personally doubt it but hey, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and go with the flow.

If this is indeed the case then let’s do it right.

Let’s have a press conference with the following people seated at the table: Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Carol Bartz, Michael Dell.

Let there be one unified message from the people at that table to China: Until you stop censoring your citizens and radically improve your human rights we are calling for a tech blockade of China.

No new technology into China and no access via the Internet to the outside world. No new technology business will be done with China or Chinese controlled companies.

That is getting serious about censorship.

That is trying to make a change.

Anything else is window dressing and beating of the chest. It means squat.

CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Get a grip, Google smack talk isn’t about China’s censorship

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Posted 1225 days ago

cbn1-podpost In tonight’s show Sean and I go after the easy target of the day’s happenings because that’s just how we roll. First though Sean gets the fact that he was wrong (and I was right <snicker>) in yesterday’s show when it came to Google’s learning how to screw its customers.

Anyway once that was dealt with we got on with the meat of today’s show which of course had to do with the late breaking news that Google is threatening to pull up stakes in China because of the whole censorship thing. Except its not and it had nothing to do with censorship.

Post referenced in the show:

Corporate Bravery from Google – Robert Scoble
Google’s “we’ll leave China” has nothing to do with censorship – The Inquisitr
Google Is Just Saber Rattling And Won’t Pull Out Of China – Paul O’Flaherty

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Please Microsoft save us from a Facebook-Google world

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Posted 1226 days ago

Tonight’s show see Sean and myself going from one extreme of reality to another.

We start off in a totally non-tech related discussion of what the hell is Sony doing with Spiderman. Like didn’t having a billion dollar franchise give them enough wet-dream they have to now go and reboot it. How many times do we need to see the angst of Parker getting bitten by a spider?

Speaking of angst there was plenty of it to go around in our discussion regarding my fervent wish that Microsoft get a clue when it comes to the social media world before it is too late and we are stuck in one controlled by Google and Facebook. Regardless of how much people love Google there are a lot of things it is doing that have cause some concern and then we have Facebook who will sell our privacy to the highest bidder.

Posts referred to in the show.

Spider-Man 4 Canceled; Franchise Reboot Planned – Sean P. Aune
Google sure has picked of the tricks of screwing their customers pretty quick – The Inquisitr

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Real mobile innovation has nothing to do with smartphones

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Posted 1232 days ago

vaseline So Google officially announced their Nexus One today.

Does this mean that now everyone is going to be going gaga over the brand new world where everything is mobile and beautiful?

Will the sun be all rosy colored when we get up in the morning?

Not likely.

There is no brave new world of mobile computing for all that will come raining down on us. No smartphone, or superphone is going to bring real mobile innovation to the masses no matter how much we might want to wish it so.

The reason: wireless broadband providers.

Google’s Nexus One delivery announced – and I get to pat myself on the back

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Posted 1239 days ago

FTW-Kid So all the news that is currently flooding the Web is about the big Android announcement that Google will be making on January 5, 2010 – just before CES. Of course the tech pundits are calling for this to be the official unveiling of the Google Nexus One smartphone.

I can just hear all the deep breaths being taken in the US because we all know this will mean squat for the rest of the world.

All that aside I would like to point out that I called this date in our Cynical Bastards Roundtable podcast when the news about the Nexus One first broke. Well okay not January 5 exactly but I did state in the podcast that it would be on or just before CES. My partners in crime for the podcast, Sean P. Aune and Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins weren’t as willing to go out on the same limb but I think we can agree I called this one right.

Gee between this and my recent post about television being a centerpiece of an major Canadian industry blog post I might have to jack up my consulting fees – well maybe not, since people aren’t all that interested in what un-experts have to say.