I put this in Business, because I can and because Google is ultimately about business but the thing they understood is that to ultimately be about business, you need to be about the consumer, without questioning. OJR article: Google News Creator Watches Portal Quiet Critics With ‘Best News’ Webby
Google News is often attacked to not being a news site. Here is what the man behind it, Krishna Bharat, has to say about that: The thing I think is indicative of a news source is that some portion of the world believes it’s a news source. Who are we to tell them it’s not news?
And this is a very interesting point in the Interview:
OJR: Did you wonder if you had the right to do this with other people’s sites?
KB: The nice thing about research is until you actually make a product, you just want to find out if it works. In the long run, the issue of rights had to be addressed. In a sense, it was a no-brainer because what we do fundamentally at Google is we take people to the content — and this is another way to take people to the content. We don’t manufacture content. We don’t substitute our content for theirs.
Usually when people come to Google search, they tell us what they’re looking for. In the context of news it’s unfair to ask them to tell us what they’re looking for — because it’s news. It’s new. They may not know it’s happening, so the burden is on us to tell them what’s interesting and new. …
Monthly Archives: September 2003
On Google News
The Future of Blogging
Very good writing here: Spy: Writing: Weblogging (Spiked). The only thing I have to object to is that Bloggers need to become more like Journalists, proofing stories and things. What is needed is that a clear and coherent picture is giving of events, taking into account different view points. That might not mean that Journalistic Standards are the ultimate answer though. Maybe there is something better.
The Grid
Seems like the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at Cern will go online. To process the amount of data they will collect for finding out what really happened at the time of the big bang, they need a new kind of computer. Welcome “The Grid”. What they do is connect the computer in research centres world wide to allow them to analyse the 20 million CDs of data likely to be collected each year. “This will have a profound effect on the way society uses information technology, much as the worldwide web did.” BBC NEWS | Technology | Huge computing power goes online
Of course we already had something similar with Seti@Home, where computers donated their computing power to find aliens in outer space, but The Grid is a lot bigger in terms of computing power it can tab into and if I understand it correctly they will make these machines one big computer, not allow each one of them to crunch a little bit of data on their own.
Telescope Game
Great Game this is. Check it out. After several levels it starts to get challenging.
Dean for America
It will be interesting to watch the next presidential ellections in light of how Howard Dean goes about it. Just check out his latest press release including a statement of internet principles and an open source software for community building.
MIT’s OpenCourseWare
This is a very nice article about MIT’s OpenCourseWare.
Blogging getting big
It seems that blogging is getting big. Doc Searls just posted about technocrati reaching 1 Million Blogs Watched. There is a new blog every 12 seconds.
CPM Prices in Germany
I just found something I would have liked to have a week ago in a german magazine. I am talking about changes in the CPM Prices for online advertisement in Germany. Interesting.
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Our Future
Some interesting thought about our future.
If you take nothing else from this article, remember: The future of the web is about people.
Eclips versus Microsoft
Here is a good article on Eclipse, a new development environment that seems to be taking the world by storm, silently, behind the watchful eye of Microsoft. Maybe the OS is not the threat? Or maybe, as MS has already admited if I remember right, the OS will just not matter much anymore in 5-10 years.
