By Ian, on October 3rd, 2006 Time magazine interviews Eric Schmidt. Big thumbs up for the technologies Google is already pushing, as you might expect. Not too sure he answers the question, though… Q. In what ways are all the new tech startups — the so-called Web 2.0 companies — changing the competitive landscape for Google? A. Web 2.0 is Continue reading Google’s Schmidt on 2.0 By Ian, on September 18th, 2006 My post on Saturday about prediction markets being a useful way to access collective intelligence brought a response from Gary of Tall Street. Tall Street is a new search engine which operates a form of stock market on search results. You search for and add sites to the system and invest pretend money in the sites you Continue reading Betting on Search By Ian, on September 14th, 2006 For some reason, my request for a face-to-face interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin was unsuccessful. Apparently, I needed to ask in 1996 to get an appointment any time soon. Nonetheless, the Google people were keen to answer my questions about the business. On the less positive side, I had to do the whole thing by Continue reading Googling for Answers About Web 2.0 By Ian, on September 8th, 2006 It’s not important for you to know my name — Nor I to know yours If we communicate for two minutes only It will be enough For knowing that someone in this world Feels as desperate as me — And what you give is what you get. It doesn’t matter if we never meet again, What Continue reading Good News for Homepage 2.0 By Ian, on September 1st, 2006 The Register, ZD Net and PC Pro have all discovered a month-old transcript of an podcast featuring Tim Berners Lee made by IBM and published stories about it within a day of each other. Read/Write web published on the story over a week ago on August 22nd. Is this what they call ‘social Continue reading 2.0 is Dead. Long Live 2.0 By Ian, on August 31st, 2006 Heather Hopkins from Hitwise UK reports an interesting phenomena on Google’s book search. The company may have started to offer PDF versions of out-of-print books, a very encouraging move to be sure. But a significant proportion of users go from directly from book search to book shops. Heather reports: “Last week, 15.93% of Continue reading Google’s Book Statistics | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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