A little post can go a long way.
There are so many things wandering on my blogging plate that I’m going to let you see them all and sort the chocolatey goodness from the creamy nougat by yourselves:
- I’m an Encouraging Creator c/o Personal DNA
- FileMaker officially runs under Rosetta, while FileMaker Server does not (both of these statements obviously apply to running the software on new Intel-based Macs)
- Google seems to be running operations in the direction of web-boom-era Netscape providing webmail services, and what looks to be their Just Enough Office suit (they acquired Writely, an online word and Word processor)
- Sometimes, complexity sucks. (Let me tell you about some networking equipment I have bought)
- Wanna launch an enterprise-level, solid, web 2.0 app. This is one illumination of what it takes.
- Every time you add something, you take something away: arguably the most ignored paradox in software development
- 37signals is clearly on a roll in my linking sweet spot huh????
- Do you know The Three Ways of Great Leaders?
- A Troll Cap for the “drive-by zealots”: good idea, n’est-ce pas? Actually, it’s a GREAT idea the more I think about it
- One of two things I just bought on iTunes - KT Tunstall: Black Horse And The Cherry Tree
- Two of two things I just bought on iTunes - John Mayer and Herbie Hancock: Stitched Up
Turns out I’m “Generous Experiencer.”
You wrote: “Google seems to be running operations in the direction of web-boom-era Netscape…” Hmmm…
I have very strong (negative) feelings about Google. My take on Google is that, had Microsoft understood the Web early enough, and extended their monopoly to the net, then they would look exactly like Google does today. In other words, Google is the Web version of Microsoft, the monopoly of this decade. Is there anything that they are not going to try to get involved in?
Another anology that I see: Google is to search what MTv is to music. They’ve both forgotten what got them where they are today, and they’ve taken their eye all of the ball.
I’m curious as to what you think.
I’m not sure what exactly a generous experiencer is…
I’m not negative on Google in the sense of their pronounced impact on the web and information retrieval. I think a company like Microsoft and given their management of many of the people and computers that power the internet would have a conflict of interest if they were advancing web search technology.
It’ll be interesting to see what Google will and will not become involved with most especialy as our expectations of what technology should be and should become, changes.
Google is certainly not perfect but they managed to refresh a great sense of purpose about the web. If they get too crazy though, they could very well erode what they started just like some other dwindling search engines/portals.
Hmmm, I don’t know, you tell me:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/03/14/sketchup/index.php
Like I said before, they are the Microsoft of the Web.
They should spend more time fixing their broken search engine.
Hmmm… I’m curious. What is broken with their search engine?
Here you go…
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/
Those two forums should give you a pretty good idea of the types of problems that people are running into.
I found this thread… http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060313-161500 … particularly interesting.
[…] I had proposed the ideathat Google was becoming the new Netscape, on the heels of news that Google had acquired Writely and MeasureMap, and later learned that they had also acquired @Last Software, makers of the fun-yet-powerful Sketchup. […]
[…] I had proposed the idea that Google was becoming the new Netscape, on the heels of news that Google had acquired Writely and MeasureMap, and later learned that they had also acquired @Last Software, makers of the fun-yet-powerful Sketchup. […]