Posts tagged with:google

Paul Graham writes a long diatribe about how startups dont take money from other people, but instead create wealth. He might be right, but let me remind myself how some of the biggest startups created wealth: YouTube: stole videos from everybody until become so large it afforded to pay royaltlies. Facebook: for the last 2 years stole […]

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

Matt Rosof explains why Google does a lot of stuffing of their own products in their search Regardless of whether Google faces new charges, the thing to keep in mind is that Google is a for-profit company. Its products have to be good, otherwise nobody will use them. But they also serve the larger business […]

  This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed: a…@…gift.ro Message will be retried for 2 more day(s) Technical details of temporary failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected […]

Turkish authorities have in recent weeks asked Google to block the videos from YouTube’s Turkish website, the people familiar with the matter said. But amid a national scandal over corruption allegations, Google refused to comply because it believes the requests to be legally invalid, the people added. It’s nice to transform yourself into a judge. […]

The year started really good. There are a few directions I have noticed going on: Companies moving away from the “like and share” model, as they find out likes do not translate into sales. The smart ones (Coca Cola, Milka) started experimenting with content created for social media. Companies still chasing the like and share […]

I’ve been using both of them. Both suck mildly. Netvibes updates slowly and displays even slower. Feedly has that stupid idea of displaying a big story, even if I selected magazine view. And displays again read items. And this comes from lack of servers.

You’ve read all the incoherent babble about PRISM and how the American Government has access to data from Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others. Of course, everybody denies it, saying they do not provide direct access to their servers. Of course. What good would do to the government if they had root on 10, 100, 100.000 […]

So, you got yourself a Google Glass or an Apple iWatch? Nice. Hey, watch out, you might scrach or hit your watch! Use the other hand! Don’t move your head too much, your Glass might fall down. And that’s the problem. Smartphones have bumpers and cases, and even a thin MyCover can protect your phone. […]

Dustin Curtis looks back at two ideas he thought were stupid when he heard them and turned out to be great. Happens a lot. Right now a lot of people are thinking the same about Google Glass, but they are not saying it, because it might turn out to be a huge hit, despite being […]