While the show was a little late recording – with good reason – I’m definitely late posting it here – no good reason other than exhaustion. The reason for the late recording was because Sean was at the meeting in his hometown where the discussion and planning for applying to Google for inclusion in their 1 Gigabit network experiment.
Of course this is all still in the planning stage but it will be interesting to have Sean in the thick of things as this moves forward and we can see how the whole application process plays out.
The other major subject we discussed is the stupid statement from John Herlihy, head of Google Europe, about how the desktop will be dead in three years. Both Sean and I call bullock on this for any number of reasons beyond just being plain stupid.
Posts referred to in the show (courtesy of Sean)
Google Fiber for Kirksville, MO – Sean P Aune
In three years desktops will be irrelevant – Silicon Republic
Here we go again with more “the desktop is dead and the cloud rules” – The Inquisitr
Enjoy the show
Look Google I realize that you have gotten your panties all in a twist about this social media thing and are hoping that your Hail Mary with Buzz is the answer you’ve been looking for.
For the longest time I have have felt that the ideal social network would be the one that you can build out of your email contacts. Now that Google has done just that I’m not so sure that it is a good idea after all.
So what would happen if some-one started a social network and no-one came to the party?
