NetSuite Takes Aim at Salesforce.com with New Program
Interesting article about 2 different Software as a Service-style companies and how they manage their third-party vendor programs. Interesting if you like reading about how these types of programs are run.
Verizon CEO says Google and Microsoft should pay more for the use of high-bandwidth web apps
I think Google has a vision 10 years out where they are by far the highest user of wireless bandwidth in the country. With folks like Verizon already making noises and Google paying through the nose for it, is it any wonder Google is investigating being their own wireless provider? Even if it’s only a couple of engineers in their 20% time for now.
No one finds it so far-fetched that Google would build its own datacenters, rather than go with something like an Exodus. No one even finds it far-fetched that they would build these little cubes that they would deposit all over the world. In an increasingly mobile-enabled future, it probably makes just as much sense to lay your own wireless networks as it does to buy your own fiber.
(in as much as it makes sense to buy your own fiber, if you get what I mean — not many companies are doing this at the rate Google is:-) )
Reminds me of that traditional retail quote:
“Why can we make these products so cheap? We own the factories!!”
Cars and stars as Google’s Page takes the stage | CNET News.com
I ran across this quote from CNet and was a little floored.
Earlier, Page discussed what he said was a “personal passion of his”–the standardization of basic computer products. Why can’t a USB port be used to monitor a front door, and a Bluetooth cell phone be used to start a car, he asked. Any wire should be able to be used for multiple purposes, such as running software, charging devices and running other devices, and adapters should work with everything, he said.
“Why is there no standard for keypads and screens? I want to be able to buy a touch screen” to plug into a computer anywhere that turns it into an alarm clock or stereo control, he said. “I’m amazed we don’t have devices like these, and the reason we don’t is because we lack standards.”
First of all, you could almost close your eyes and imagine Bill Gates talking here. This is his vision of interconnected devices everywhere as well.
But second of all…
eh? Where is he going with this one.
This sounds strange, but remember the last time Larry Page had a personal passion… I’m being tongue-in-cheek here, but he did say it on stage.
So Google Video is finally here, eh.
I’m not here to repeat the announcement but wonder instead about the implications for Apple.
It’s one thing for Apple to run rings of coolness around Microsoft (at least from a hip perspective, certainly not a revenue perspective), that’s like taking candy from a baby…. but it’s quite another for Steve Jobs to do that against the current darlings, Google.
Of course, Google doesn’t have a hardware device that consumers could use but in general it seems like Apple should be grinning ear to ear that others are legitimizing the video space. Apple should have an auto-downloader for Google content right onto your iPod.
…or could Google get into portable music/video hardware too? Google Mini-Cube, anyone? Can Marissa Mayer design consumer devices too? 
Ok back to reality. One thing this does for Apple: reduce their leverage in the video space. Steve Jobs has the music publishers over a barrel. It doesn’t look like video will play out the same way.
Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com
My goal in life achieved! Finally!
Now all I need is nationwide broadband. I think Verizon is the closest now, but to me the definition of irony would be Google enabling nationwide wireless broadband over which you would run Skype and other telephony apps.
Am I wrong?
Skype Journal: Host Web Conferences during Skype Conference Calls - for free!!
Now this is cool stuff. We use Microsoft Live Meeting for web conferencing now, but I think it woudl be very cool to be able to use Skype. Just seems convenient, doesn’t it?
Details:
Some key features:
• If you host the Skype/Unyte web conference, none of your participants need to download Unyte except you.
• You can currently join up to 5 people in a web conference (for now)
• No ports to forward (as with other desktop sharing apps)
No extra software downloads is a good thing as well I think. There are always some people who can’t seem to get into whatever web-conferencing software at the most inopportune time (doesn’t matter which brand you pick, either).
Modern Cartographers Vital in Digital Age: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
I’m sure a lot of sci-fi folks have read Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash. These digital map guys at the link above are the definition of gargoyles, don’t you think?
There is a lot of interesting stuff here — more later. Some topics are related to startups vs big companies, innovation, tough projects, etc
Lots of interesting quotes in this article, but one of favorite is:
A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito is designed for one thing: to score. No energy is wasted on defense. The defense of mosquitos, as a species, is that there are a lot of them, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito.
THQ will start using ads in its games. At the risk of sounding foolish… Wouldn’t Google or Yahoo be able to sell into this ad network more efficiently than the game owner themselves could do?
The monetization levels that these platforms are able to offer at this point are getting really high.
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