Feb
20
2010
Golly, CEO’s say the darndest things! Qwest CEO Ed Mueller is quoted as responding to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s call for upgrading the US broradband infrastructure to 100Mbits to the home in the next decade saying: “100 meg is just a dream, we couldn’t afford it.” He went on to add ”First, we don’t think the customer [...]
Tags: 100mbit, bandwidth, Ed Meuller, future, Google, Internet, qwest, telecom Act
Feb
13
2010
I’ve been thinking more over night about the whole Google Buzz fiasco, and the more I think about it, the more horrified I am.
What Google’s done in not thinking through the implications of the auto-follow defaults for Buzz will not be known for some time – but exposing everyone’s social network in this [...]
Tags: buzz, data, data mining, Google, intelligence, Privacy, Social Networking, surveillance
Feb
12
2010
So, Google is going after Twitter and Facebook it seems with Buzz. Buzz could be an interesting platform, but here are 4 key reasons why it’s probably not going to take off just yet:
Google doesn’t get user experience.
People are already invested in Twitter and Facebook
APIs Matter
Poorly Thought Out Defaults
Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Google is a data driven [...]
Tags: api, buzz, client, FaceBook, Google, Privacy, safety, Security, sns, Social Networks, twitter
Oct
09
2007
Update: The Huffington Post’s Eric Williams has even more on this, and coins the term of the week: “Flag Hag.” Perfect.
So, in an unbelievably asinine piece, the LA Times has declared, as part of some really poor reporting centering on how self-proclaimed “conservatives” are upset with Google’s little logos commemorating historical events, that “public [...]
Tags: , Google, LA Times, Patriotism