I live in NYC. I work for Vimeo. I like to cook. My wife likes sprinkles. I have a new(ish) daughter. Her name is Chloe. We don't know if she likes sprinkles yet.
Google Creative Lab and BERG London carve interfaces out of light
Love the design of these.
THE COUNTRY’S PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL: Apple’s Huge New Data Center In North Carolina Created Only 50 Jobs (via jonathanmarcus)
I saw this headline over the weekend and while we all know how BI and their headlines, it still bugs me. We live in a global capitalist economy and the reality is that if any business can outsource manufacturing or automate processes, it will happen.
Remind me of which company needed to be bailed out in 2008? Apple? Amazon? Google? Remind me which company is the second-most valuable in the world and for a brief moment, even was the most valuable of all.
May I try and rewrite this headline?
The country’s problem in a nutshell: money in politics.
(via david-noel)
^^^ what david-noel said.
(via apoplecticskeptic)
(via apoplecticskeptic)
Google is doing some interesting auto correcting on searches for “Romney can win”
The Great Tech War Of 2012
Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon battle for the future of the innovation economy.
(via fastcompany)
Say what you will about their recent maneuvers, but it’s pretty clear that Page is trying his damnedest to make sure Google doesn’t atrophy like Microsoft did.
Claire Cain Miller reporting:
“There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions,” Mr. Page said in a rare public appearance at Google’s Zeitgeist conference in Paradise Valley, Ariz. “There are only companies that have good fast decisions. As companies get bigger, they slow down decision making, and that’s a big problem.”
That’s a great point — but there’s key flipside here that Page leaves out: companies that make bad fast decisions.
Motorola was a fast decision. Time will determine if it was a good one or a bad one.
I admire Google for their nonstop efforts at trying to not slow down, not get bogged down in bureaucracy and indecision. It is a monstrously difficult management problem, one that is under-discussed and very hard to grasp the scale of until you’ve tried to build a lot of stuff rapidly. Time’s going to determine the validity of any decision, regardless of how fast you make it. There comes a time when all the data’s in and you have to move, and any additional decision time is wasted. Keeping a company the size of Google even remotely agile strikes me as a herculean endeavor, and one that very much differentiates them from Microsoft (though not so much Apple).
What he said.
It’s not just that Microsoft is losing money online, it’s that they’re bleeding it. And it’s getting worse, not better. The company has lost $9 billion online since they started breaking out the numbers in 2007 — $2.5 billion of that was in the past year.
And Bing has accounted for $5.5 billion of the total loses.
And what is Microsoft spending all that money on? Stealing market share from Yahoo, not Google. Yahoo is their search partner. Google is their enemy.
So what is Microsoft’s plan to make money on Bing? Essentially: get more people to use it.
Why didn’t anyone else think of that?
Microsoft’s real problem here is that in order to beat Google in search, they can’t just be better — they have to be exponentially better to get people to switch. And I’m just not sure that’s possible.
Microsoft is fighting a battle they’ve already lost simply by not taking it seriously earlier.
Billions in loses later, Microsoft may be starting to understand this. They have to compete with Google by not competing with them. They have to do something totally different and something Google can’t possibly copy.
Only one possibility comes to mind: Facebook.
They’ve been doing stuff with Facebook already thanks to their small investment in the social network. But they need to completely blow it out. Facebook search sucks. But it won’t suck forever. Eventually, they’ll do it themselves. And they’ll do it in a way that will compete with Google by being completely different. It will not be Bing.
Microsoft needs to hurry.
