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Just was reading about Google Maps, specifically their turn-by-turn, and its impact on the maps market.
As many people know, there are 2 main players in the map market: Tele Atlas and NavTeq. Google licensed both of them for Google Maps for years. While they licensed, they also sent cars all around the nation [...]
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I had no idea why Google would buy a company, reCaptcha, that does captchas. For those of you who don’t know, captchas are the little squiggly text that people enter to prove they are human. The word “captcha” actually stands for: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers [...]
There’s been a lot of buzz about a month ago about how YouTube loses money and is a horrible business. Most of these articles came after Credit Suisse’s published an estimate of YouTube’s losses at $470M a year. This is a large number and people pounced on it. However, there is a good report i [...]
I’m an iPhone users and i love it. It has transformed my mobile phone usage and dare i say, my life. With the internet at my fingertips, i no longer go more than 10 seconds without knowing the answer to a question. I have come to realize that the world of computers and the internet [...]
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Last Saturday i was part of the METal group that had breakfast with Nolan Bushnell. It was a really thought provoking. My favorite part was the beginning of the speech which he came out and said:
Ideas don’t mean shit. Everyone has good ideas. Some better than others. Only over time and [...]
There’s a growing trend in the media to attack facebook. It started when their redesign got pretty bad reviews, continued when their CFO left, and now is gaining steam as mainstream outlets are questioning it’s core business proposition. There are three different things here and the media is pointing to them as an indication of [...]
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I did an interview last night for USC business school where i was asked a lot of questions about Qloud and its beginnings. Questions like “What advice would you give to aspiring entrepreneurs? What have you learned?” Well here goes…
i often hear people talk about “doing something big.” While I admire their desire [...]
I got quite inspired when reading this post by John Borthwick. First of all, the YouTube data really surprised me in that YouTube is now the 2nd largest search site online, bigger than Yahoo! at over 3 billion searches a month.
Second and more importantly, i started thinking about real-time search. Finding out what is happening [...]
A new feature was released today from Google called Google Latitude. It’s allows you to post your location onto Google Maps and to see your friends’ locations. It’s done using GPS and other technologies (Gears, etc.) and works really well. Here are some thoughts i have on it
First, I like the way it looks and [...]
I just read a great article by Clive Thompson called “Head for Detail” about Gordon Bell’s latest experieement. Please just read the first 2 paragraphs. It’s about Gordon and how he is recording everything he’s doing (video, audio, emails, web, everything). He’s been doing it for the past 14 years and is able to bring [...]
