I did not intend to have two Google-related posts two days in a row but yesterday I didn’t know that today Google was going to launch Google Gears. Google Gears is a new offering that allows developers to build off-line web applications. What better way to demonstrate that than by improving arguably [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2007’
Google Flight Risk Towards Competitive Innovation?
Over the weekend, I read a provocative article, The Final Days of Google: It is going to be an inside job by Robert X. Cringely which I found via a Valleywag post. It is a very good article that I recommend reading if you have the time but the quick summary is that [...]
Views on the Bubble
Recently, Michael Arrington posted Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right About Now causing some interesting and probably healthy conversation. This includes the Valleywag criticism within their coverage The Genie is Out of the Bottle and The Bubble isn’t all bad. Goes with the territory when you are a member of the [...]
The “Echo Chamber” Reverb
The infamous “Echo Chamber”. If you have a blog that concentrates on any topic regarding the web, you are pretty much right in the center of it. It is a term you hear a lot out of the valley. For example, Fred Wilson has 19 different blog posts where he [...]
Customers Do Not Always Know
Very often it seems to that firms make a fundamental mistake by following the age old adage “the customer is always right” and by extending it to the “customer always knows”. And in the world, and especially in the world of web-based products, that is simply not the case. In case anyone stops [...]
