Google’s Schmidt on 2.0

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

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Betting on Search

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

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Googling for Answers About Web 2.0

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

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Good News for Homepage 2.0

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

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2.0 is Dead. Long Live 2.0

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

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Google’s Book Statistics

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

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