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The problem with the “Web 2.0” phenomenon is that it constrains innovation by perpetuating the assumption that the web is accessed through computing devices, whether PCs or smartphones or game consoles. As broadband, storage, and computing get ever cheaper, that assumption will be rendered obsolete. The internet won’t be so much a destination as a feature, incorporated into all sorts of different goods in all sorts of different ways. The next great wave in internet innovation, in other words, won’t be about creating sites on the World Wide Web; it will be about figuring out creative ways to deploy the capabilities of the World Wide Computer through both traditional and new physical products, with, from the user’s point of view, “no computer or special software required

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Om Malik has a rather eloquent piece on Google’s infrastructure putting up barrier to entry for competitors.

Not quite as eloquently, this is a subject that has been covered at TechBizMedia a few times recently

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Technorati Tags: Google, Om Malik, Infrastructure

Over the past year I have received my fair share of invitations to write for this and that blog. As a science blogger I have resisted any such invitations. As a tech and business blogger, I write for this blog, a duopoly that was definitely influenced by GigaOM. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post bemoaning the death of the individual blogger. The resulting furore, including Om’s response are all available on Techmeme and your favorite blog search engine. Read the rest »

Recently, facebook launched a new ad program called Facebook Beacon, with much fanfare. First, it failed to elicit the expected positive response from the media. Then immediately after the launch, the tech blogosphere was full of news about how Facebook Beacon is intruding into user’s privacy and a way to block it in Firefox. Since then, there was a whole lot of negative press about this facebook ad program. MoveOn.org has launched an online petition and a facebook group to force facebook’s hand in this case. My opinion about privacy nightmare is similar to many others in the tech media. I want Facebook Beacon to be opt-in rather than opt-out system. This approach of facebook is akin to spammers sending spam emails with an option to opt-out rather than getting the recipient’s permission in advance. But, Facebook Beacon is not the only nightmare for the facebook users. Read the rest »

As an avid Google watcher, it’s always interesting to note what the search giant might do next and what the implications might be. Om Malik notes that Google is now making its own high speed network switches. Why would they want to do that? Read the rest »

Our main product is a technology that can directly answer questions put to it on any topic and dramatically improves the quality and accuracy of results compared to any existing search technology.

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Microsoft just adding data center capacity in Ireland. Amazon is serving up cloud capacity in Europe. Google’s thirst for data centers is somewhat legendary. And now Red Hat is offering Red Hat Linux via Amazon’s EC2 platform. Read the rest »

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I wonder what would happen to the blogosphere if we all thought like Sir Conan Doyle

First read about The Mythical WebOS

Then read about Google’s plans to be leverage the “web as platform”

Then read this NYT story about a $200 computer available in WalMart and running a “GOS”, a version of Linux specifically designed to run Google apps (via TechCrunch)

Now tell me that Google’s plans are limited to “social networking”

Technorati Tags: Open Social, Google

I was hoping that by the time I wrote this, Open Social would no longer be the top story on Techmeme. So much for that thought. Spending time telling you all about it is somewhat pointless, since it’s been covered all over the web (TechCrunch has a pretty decent writeup). But what does it mean, not just in the scope of this announcement but the long term future of Google and the web. Read the rest »