Google will not try to make money out of the Chrome OS operating system, its co-founder said

Is Google becoming more and more altruistic?

At the Google Chrome OS launch this morning, the search engine co-founder tried to convince the press corps attending the small gathering (just under 50 journalists and bloggers!) that Google is not trying to make money out of its upcoming operating system.

“Call us dumb businessmen. We really focus on user needs rather to strategies relative to other companies and things like that. And I think there is a real user need to be able to use computers easily. These netbooks are now $300-400… You can buy 5 to put around your house. But if you do it today there’s no way you can manage them. The overhead to manage the software will be way too high. We believe that the Web platform is a much simpler way, where the machines are essentially stateless or cache-like and still be performant. And still more easier for users to use,” explains Sergey Brin.

Chrome OS promises to be faster, more secure and easier to use than traditional operating systems like Linux (which the software is based on), Windows and even Mac OS!

However, the Google software which is readily available for download on the Chromium OS site, will not host any other “native” applications than Google’s own Chrome Web browser.

So for those, like me, with heavy photos and videos needs, Chrome OS will simply not fit the bill.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin explains it all in this video excerpt:

Google dominiert den Suchmaschinen- und damit auch den Online-Werbemarkt. Das wird in absehbarer Zeit auch so bleiben – doch die Konkurrenz schläft nicht! Mit Bing greift Microsoft erneut an und konnte sich in den Staaten wie auch in Deutschland schon gewisse Marktanteile sichern. Die Kooperation mit Yahoo wirft den Verfolger zusätzlich weiter nach vorne, denn die beiden Firmen fusionieren ihr technologisches Wissen. Müssen sich Page und Brin in den kalifornischen Bergen trotz mildem Klima warm anziehen?

Der Googleplex (Quelle: geni.org)

In unserer Vorlesung haben wir einen Blick auf die Kernkompetenzen der beiden Giganten geworfen. Obwohl das Erfolgskonzept Google weiterhin Anklang findet, kann Bing mit frischen Innovationen glänzen. Immerhin zu 10 % Anteil am US-Markt konnte man es so schon schaffen. Gates Team beweist außerdem, dass neue Ideen mit Hochdruck verfolgt werden. Schon kurz nach der Unterzeichnung des Deals mit Twitter – den Google nur wenig später ebenfalls tätigte – stand die Beta-Version des Bingtweets zur Verfügung, wo die Nachrichten in Echtzeit eingespeist werden.

Um sich ernsthaft auf dem Werbemarkt zu profilieren, muss bei Microsoft aber noch ordentlich nachgelegt werden. Zu viele mittelständische Unternehmen verlassen sich bei ihrer Onlinewerbeplanung noch ausschließlich auf Google. Und das kommt nicht von ungefähr: Mit AdWords und AdSense wird ein ausgefeiltes System und ein enormes Netzwerk angeboten, das durch freie Programme wir Analytics noch unterstrichen wird. Darüber hinaus erweckt Google nicht den Eindruck sich auf seinen Lorbeeren auszuruhen, denn mit Wave steht schon der nächste Geniestreich in den Startlöchern.

Links:

• BingTweets
• Werben mit Google
• “What is Google Wave?”

[Christian Faller]

La divisione Uk di Google, Google Channel Uk, ha creato un simpatico video di 2 minuti in cui racchiude gli 11 anni di storia del motore di ricerca.

Dagli inizi di Page e Brin alla Stanford University, fino a Google Wave.

Mr. Writer

via downloadblog

Au soliflore, mon amour,
Je n’ai glissé qu’un brin séché.
N’y vois pas un mauvais augure,
Mais un signe d’éternité.

Photo Ange7, Le Rayol 2009.

=°= Et pour prolonger la visite : un article au hasard =°=

Whether by coincidence or by design, I think there are a lot of parallels to be made between the startup success of Google, as told by The Search, and the success of the current Web 2.0 phenomenon. However, I’ll argue for the importance of the former (coincidence) than the later (design). Firstly, both Google’s startup story and Web 2.0 have a streak of rugged individualism running through their very core, either in the form of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, as is the case for Google, or Web 2.0’s user-centered approach to web design.  For example, consider Google’s humble start. It took two ordinary graduate students to develop what would become the goliath we now know as Google. There wasn’t a multimillion-dollar research lab funding their unfortunately named “BackRub” project in their Stanford dorms. Similarly, Web 2.0’s beauty, and enigma, is exemplified in how it levels barriers to entry: anyone can do it! Just like Google started in a dorm room and not in some NSF lab, consider how a velvet revolution took hold recently in Iran, with the cell-phone camera replacing the ballonet as the weapon of choice. Or consider how an obnoxious Nebraskan teenager is propelled to Hollywood superstardom without the backing of a powerhouse studio or a silver-tongued Ari Gold. However, in stark contrast to this rugged individualism, there’s also a theme of connection. For example, the ultimate success of Page and Brin was their extensive social networks within Stanford and the greater Silicon Valley. In fact, I would argue that, at least in their early days, the people in their social network were their most valuable asset, far more valuable than any discarded computer from the computer science department.  Likewise, Web 2.0 is as based on individual expression as it is based on sharing this individuality with others, as seen with the success of mySpace and Facebook.

Innovation was the main driver for the success of Google and remains the main driver behind Web 2.0. At least in my view, innovation is engendered by two extremes- individualism, which creates the idea, and connection, which fosters the idea. Innovation sprouts from an individual idea and is aggrandized through large-scale sharing and interaction. This “networked” framework seems to be a subtle, but very powerful, notion that Page and Brin picked up on as graduate students. The Search takes note of this when describing how Page was choosing his research focus. The World Wide Web as the largest network ever to come into existence, intrigued Page, at least ostensibly.  His focus on how web-pages linked to one another, both forward and backward, seems to hint at the true potential that was dormant within this new way of thinking, whether he realized it or not. To an extent, I would argue that what Page and Brin’s Google did for the Internet was what Silicon Valley did for them. Google would ultimately calcify the links between these networked nodes and hence, bring a dynamic structure to a nascent Internet. Similarly, Silicon Valley brought about the synergies and resources needed to grow Google from the dorm room to the world. Networks, I believe, will be a powerful motif revisited this semester.

Je n’arrive pas à choisir entre la précarité dominicale et la mode de l’hyperthermie
(Dieu 0 – La canicule 1)

Fonte: “La Nuova Sardegna“

(Articolo del 4/08/2009) – OLBIA – Domani è la giornata di Claudio Baglioni, ma già oggi il Parco Brin offre un antipasto di musica d’autore. Stasera alle 21.30 sul palco di fronte al museo archeologico il concerto dei Tazenda. La band isolana, formata da Beppe Dettori, Gigi Camedda, Gino Marielli, eseguirà tutti i suoi più grandi successi. Dalle prime hit con la voce di Andrea Parodi all’ultimo brano in team con Gianluca Grignani. Il concerto dei Tazenda è inserito nel cartellone del Parco Brin, 43 giorni di musica, danza, teatro e cinema che accompagnano l’estate olbiese. Domani, invece, lo show di Baglioni al Molo Brin. (al.pi.)

La Nasa progetta sistemi per la raccolta di alghe, cresciute in appositi sacchetti di plastica in mare, per produrre biocarburanti senza consumare acqua e sottrarre terra all’agricoltura. Il sistema filtrerà le acque reflue e i liquami che non saranno più scaricati in mare.

Un progetto che può essere vincente da un lato per la produzione di biocombustibile e, dall’altro, per la capacità del sistema di fare da maxi-filtro. L’idea è venuta allo scienziato Jonathan Trent. Tra i finanziatori troviamo anche i fondatori di Google, Larry Page e Sergey Brin. L’azienda hi-tech californiana ha infatti investito 250mila dollari nel progetto.

You’d think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google.

But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft’s rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service, The Post has learned.

Ka vdekur Rajeev Motwani, profesor informatike i Universitetit te Stanfordit, nje nga konsulentet kryesore te Google. Lajmi ka tronditur “Silicon Valley” ku profesori ishte nje nder personazhet me te njohur. Motwani, 47 vjeçar, vdiq i mbytur ne pishinen e shtepise se tij. Ai kishte ndihmuar Brin dhe Page per te zhvilluar algoritmet, ne fazen fillestare te Google, e ka ngelur nje nder keshilluesit informal me pas, te kollosit te webit dhe te nje numri tjeter te konsiderueshem kompanish ne Silicon Valley.

Burimi: /Ansa/

I have my respects for the Academicians. I have no explanation, but still I rever them like gods. May be I believe that they are the ones who instigate the flickers of innovation and inventions.

Similar was the case with Rajeev Motwani. The tragic death of the Silicon Valley guru has sent the tech fraternity into gloom This was the person who sparked the idea of Google and Paypal. He was such a force to reckon with in the Valley that Sergy Brin said in his message the “there is a chance that any technology you use today has a little bit of Rajeev Motvani behind it”. Such was the competence of Rajeev.

This might be a very short post, but the respect I have for Rajeev and others of his clan is unlimited.

My respects for these people. Adios.

Dear members and supporters of the LJOM Congregation,

The honor I feel in every space inside my heart and chest and lungs and fingers and toes and head and stomach is like a million grape sized balloons in the best and brightest colors all inflated and floating and released at once into the air around me. It is reverse confetti. Beauty rises into the sky instead of a gravity effected free fall. You are all beyond the conventions of equations and expectations. Walls do not define, nor contain the energy that you have defied the world and universe to make.

This morning I was listening to the CD as I drove to work and I am so filled with happiness and love and pride that you would allow me to stand beside you and share in the same manner. The talents that pour from your mouths and fingers and minds and souls are the most flabbergasting and floorflattening and absolute brilliant shining moments I have had in Los Angeles.

It is like home. It is like religion. It is a movement and a spin and a dance and a silence and a drug.

I am addicted.

Please do not send me to de-tox. Keep feeding my head and my veins and my cells and my mouth until I am gorged and obese and happy and lolling in the pure ecstasy of gluttony with no possibility of ill effect other than the need to give as much as I feel I have taken from you, and each time return improved. Better. For you.

I want to be a better person for you. Each of you.

The loss I have felt from the lack of my own personal expression and observation coupled with the challenge of regaining all that is lost in a town not known for its gentle touch, but rather its haughty and critical eye, has built a road on a steep hill in Echo Park for me to climb. Each of you have been an open palm and a kind word in my attempt to keep going.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, dear Congregation. My belief in the power of art and beauty and haphazard family has been restored. (Praise it!)

With all my heart helium and sunshine,

Esmé

(*******For more information regarding the LJOM Congregation, please check out the Link under the movers/shakers column*******)

Bajka fantasy z pretekstem science-fiction, oparta na ciekawym pomyśle: w alternatywnym świecie przedmioty w miarę używania nie degradują, a wręcz przeciwnie – “z natury” osiągają coraz większą doskonałość, aż po zaskakujące zmiany jakościowe. Za to brak używania prowadzi do szybkiego procesu odwrotnego. Ma to ciekawy wpływ na relacje społeczne, na historię wynalazczości i rzemieślnictwa…

Bogaci muszą zatrudniać sztab służących do ciągłego używania ich rzeczy, aby nie padły ofiarą entropii. Więźniowie zmuszani są do ciągłych prób uszkodzenia muru więziennego. Postęp techniczny odbywa się na zasadzie “brute force”, stąd uwielbiany przez graczy w Cywilizację feat Invention nie przyjął się tu zbytnio.

Do tego mamy motyw Jankesa na dworze Króla Artura, i gdzieś w tle jakąś historię, która coś tam sprawiła, ale w zasadzie nie jest potrzebna do niczego poza tłem. Jak i fabuła, niespecjalnie ona zaskakuje, jest często łagodnie wtórna i stanowi w zasadzie jedynie pretekst do pobawienia się z głównym pomysłem opisanym powyżej.