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The real problem with Google TV

November 11, 2011

It looks like Logitech is out of the Google TV market: The mistake, plus “operational miscues in EMEA” cost the company “well over $100M in operating profits.” De Luca did throw Google a bone by saying that he believes Google TV will have a chance sometime in the future, but it would be a “grandchild [...]

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Unhappy with social network real name policies? Do it yourself

August 22, 2011

Hugh MacLeod: And as I’ve said many times over the years, Web 2.0 IS ALL ABOUT personal sovereignty. About using media to do something meaningful, WITHOUT someone else giving you permission first, without having to rely on anyone else’s resources, authority and money. Self-sufficiency. Exactly.i.e. not waiting for the green light. In the blogosphere, the [...]

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What the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment really means

January 4, 2011

Alan Patrick sees through the hype around Facebook being “worth $50 billion”: “The one sure thing you can tell from this is that Facebook clearly can’t self fund itself enough for what it needs, even on $2bn turnover a year.” To put it another way: A web site which has 500 million users, 1/8th of [...]

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There’s something missing in this Eric Schmidt quote

September 15, 2010

From Google to Add Social-Network Elements – WSJ.com: “The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data,” Mr. Schmidt said. “Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.” He declined to be specific. I think Eric meant to say “the best thing that would happen for us is [...]

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Five things I’m thinking about right now

July 12, 2010

Following on from Matt, Alice, Ben and Dan… 1. Computing is heading towards a new, simplified era. I’ve written about this before, but fundamentally: we’re on the cusp of a revolution in simplicity. Easy to use touch interfaces are the final piece of the jigsaw, and will devices easier to use than ever before. 2. [...]

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Facebook blocking all bit.ly links? UPDATE: Nope.

April 22, 2010
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UPDATE: And it’s fixed. Looks like it was a short-term glitch in the Facebook matrix. – It appears that Facebook has decided that all links using popular link-shortener bit.ly are potentially dangerous – and has blocked them. I’ve tried this with a number of bit.ly URLs, and it appears to be for everything, not just [...]

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Sergey Brin on Google Buzz

February 10, 2010
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Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz: “Extracting signal from noise is one of our core competencies, it’s one of the key things we do in our web search product every day. And I think that now peoples’ personal communications are getting to be on a scale comparable to that of web search, [...]

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Idiot post of the day – The Roundup

January 6, 2010

I’ll keep updating this one as and when they come in. And boy, are they coming in. With the honourable exception of David Pogue, everyone seems to have lost all their critical faculties, journalistic skills, and in some cases basic ability to write English sentences which parse. First up, Max Tatton-Brown, in his post entitled [...]

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Are your friends a filter or a firehose? Some musings on Twitter and FriendFeed

May 20, 2009

I was playing around with FriendFeed – again – and not seeing the point – again, when a thought came to me which I think encapsulates why I don’t get on with it, and why, in fact, I’ll never get on with it. To start with, consider that social networks like FriendFeed, Twitter and Facebook [...]

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Doc Searls Weblog · Same old blog, brand new place

November 7, 2007

Link: Doc Searls Weblog · Same old blog, brand new place. "But the problem for Mark, for Jeremiah, and for all of us (including yours truly) is that we too easily default to framing our understanding of advertising in its own terms. We regard advertising as an independent variable: something ya gotta have. But in [...]

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