Owen, Doug I have a GREAT idea! Why don't we write and offer to help them with their ... um .....problem.
Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > [Original Message] > From: Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Date: 2/10/2010 12:03:29 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Buzz arrives > > No. I've figured out their business plan: Advertisement. They agree > and are very public about it. > > Its their "architecture" I don't get. > > Here's a good post to the earlier /. suggested read. Note the third > paragraph about tying it together. Yes, I'd love a "desktop in the > sky" usable on everything in my digital kit bag (TV, phone, computer, > iPad, ...) but so far Google isn't even close in terms of coherence. > > <quote> > The innovation comes in how this all ties together. Google Mail + Buzz > + Wave + Contacts (Yes contacts is its own thing.) Voice + Talk + Maps > + Chat + Calendar + (Maybe docs, it still blows though) + Search = One > hell of a system of tools to organize and manage how you do "stuff" > > And when you start integrating that into phones, netbooks (Think > Chrome OS) + your traditional web browser you can do some pretty cool > stuff. > > > However right now Google's biggest challenge is tying all this stuff > > together. Calendar + Groups? Maps + Gmail? Buzz + Calendar? Not even > > remotely tied together. > > Lets be blunt here. The above Facebook has nothing like this. MS > doesn't either. Google is creating a virtual desktop. That is all > there is to it. > </quote> > > -- Owen > > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > All I can say is that it (the apparent random approach to producing > > products and product support) is working, and I wish I had bought > > goog at its IPO. > > > > I'm serious too: you're complaining that you can't figure out > > Google's business plan, and I'm complaining that their business plan > > (whatever it is) has been so successful that the company is > > wallowing in money, none of which I got. Not only has Google been > > hugely successful with their business plan (whatever it is), they > > have that other behemoth money factory, M$, running scared. > > > > I'm not going to pretend to be able to describe, justify, dissect, > > or pontificate upon Goog's business plan, other than to observe that > > it has been hugely successful. > > > > --Doug > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Owen Densmore > > <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > > They are going to continue down that very same road which has taken > > them to all those multi billions of dollars which they keep stuffing > > into their overflowing coffers. Why kill the goose that keeps > > laying all of those delicious golden eggs? > > > > And that is? Can you describe "that very same road"? I'm serious. > > As far as I can see its near-random. > > > > > > -- Owen > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
