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The world is a-buzz this morning with discussion of Google’s new product “Search, plus Your World” which integrates personal content from Google+, Picasa and other places in with search results from the open web from Google’s main search service (only available on Google.com so far, official press release here). At one level this [...] Legendary VC Vinod Khosla has a guest post about the ‘Surprising Path of Artficial Intelligence’ up on Techcrunch today. It is a reminder of both the chequered history of computer smarts and the unrealised potential. The history is one of promises unfulfilled. Khosla quotes Google research chief Peter Norvig to sum it up: [Khosla] [...] I recently read Tim Wu’s The Master Switch (read my review here) the central thesis of which is that tech revolutions start with the promise of freedom to operate, light regulation, plenty of scope for new entrants and a promise of an enduring new order, but always end with regulated monopolies and oligopolies. A [...] Regular readers will know that I’m a strong believer in open standards. I think they provide the best platform for innovation and are the best protection against monopolists. Hence I would love it if the open web prevailed, and the rising power of gatekeepers like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and even Google annoys me as [...] I’ve been saying for some time now that the fundamentals of the Android ecosystem are stronger than that of Apple’s iOS, largely because Apple doesn’t know how play nice with its ecosystem partners. I think we are now getting near to the tipping point where Android starts to claim dominant mindshare and the shift [...] I was going to write about how I’m getting on with the new Google Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone today, but I was so gob smacked when I saw this table on AllThingsD that I had to re-blog it. It is easy today to think of Google as slightly old hat. The startup that [...] Matias Duarte of Google wrote a long post yesterday about the new Roboto typeface they are using in Ice Cream Sandwich (aka Android 4.0). It is interesting more for what it says about how Google is trying to portray itself as for the details of how they went about making Roboto. Matias is [...] We are going through a phase of hardware replacement in our family at the moment. We have just bought our first Mac computer as a PC replacement (a Mac Mini) and Fiona has got a new iPhone. I still use a Blackberry for email, but I carry an iPhone as well which is due [...] Despite recent commentary to the contrary it seems very clear to me that both Google+ and Facebook are making great progress. (For negative commentary see Google+ … ‘Worse than a ghost town’ on MediaShift and At last, we’re logging back on to the real world from our old friends at the Daily Mail.) The [...] When Google surprised everyone and bought Motorola’s device business for $12.5bn back in August there was a lot of speculation as to their motives, but the consensus seemed to be that the portfolio of 17,000 patents was the principle attraction. It struck me as kind of crazy that we have a world where Google [...] |
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