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  • Ten reasons to avoid Google’s IPO

    An oldie from before the Google IPO in 2004, that seems hilarious in the current scheme of things, especially with gems like:
    “Look at Google’s competition: Yahoo, Amazon, and soon Microsoft. All three know more about their customers than Google, because all three have many years of portal experience. And Microsoft owns your desktop. Can Google compete?”
    “Google has excellent brand recognition, but how much more saturation of the mass media can we expect before journalists get sick of it?” – Going by the recent hype over G+, the saturation doesn’t seem to have set in even after 8 years.

    tags: google ipo criticism

    • Yahoo is trying too hard to monetize their new search engine, but apart from this they’ve already shown that their technology is as good as Google’s.
    • Google has excellent brand recognition, but how much more saturation of the mass media can we expect before journalists get sick of it?
    • personalized search is the Next Big Thing
    • Look at Google’s competition: Yahoo, Amazon, and soon Microsoft. All three know more about their customers than Google, because all three have many years of portal experience. And Microsoft owns your desktop. Can Google compete?

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  • 10 best (unknown) open source projects | ITworld

    Quite a variety – from ebook organizers to toxicology testers

    tags: opensource projects software

  • The science of fanboyism – The Tech Report

    Quite a lot of stats to back it with…

    tags: science fans psychology

  • Inside RIM: An exclusive look at the rise and fall of the company that made smartphones smart

    Quite a bit like the railroad vs road transition. Underestimate the customer at your own peril.
    “You’d hear Mike Lazaridis unequivocally state time and time again that BlackBerry smartphones would never have MP3 players or cameras in them because it just does not make sense when the company’s primary customers were the government and enterprise.”
    “RIM would be proud of the fact that someone would only use 1MB of data in a month in 2005″

    tags: smartphones RIM blackberry business innovation

    • You’d hear Mike Lazaridis unequivocally state time and time again that BlackBerry smartphones would never have MP3 players or cameras in them because it just does not make sense when the company’s primary customers were the government and enterprise.
    • A BlackBerry with a name is ridiculous.
    • There was no three-year plan at RIM.” RIM would be proud of the fact that someone would only use 1MB of data in a month in 2005
    • In the corporate world, especially at large companies, the senior executives would buy a BlackBerry as soon as it came out. They would then give their old devices to employees beneath them, and these BlackBerry phones would eventually make their way down through the corporation. This isn’t the case anymore, and now those people that used to receive the hand-me-down BlackBerry devices are asking for shiny new phones.
    • “When you hear Mike talk about the latest and greatest, it’s been the same thing for ten years: security, battery performance, and network performance
    • the data network fees paid to RIM were definitely the number one cause of heartburn from carriers, and a big point of contention.

  • STANFORD Magazine: July/August 2011 > Features > Stanford Prison Experiment

    A look back at the experiment by its participants. Interesting insights.

    tags: psychology stanford experiment prison

  • Monkey Business: Can A Monkey License Its Copyrights To A News Agency? | Techdirt

    A pretty interesting case – if a monkey clicks some photographs, who owns the copyright & what can be termed as fair use?

    tags: monkey business license copyright news

  • Op-Ed Columnist – The Bankruptcy Boys – NYTimes.com

    If you thought 9/11 was a catastrophe for the US, think again – the deficit is going to be a much bigger & longer term problem. The beast is starving but not getting any thinner.
    “Why are Republicans reluctant to sit down and talk? Because they would then be forced to put up or shut up. Since they’re adamantly opposed to reducing the deficit with tax increases, they would have to explain what spending they want to cut. And guess what? After three decades of preparing the ground for this moment, they’re still not willing to do that.”

    tags: bankruptcy economics nytimes usa

    • The conservative answer, which evolved in the late 1970s, would be dubbed “starving the beast” during the Reagan years. The idea — propounded by many members of the conservative intelligentsia, from Alan Greenspan to Irving Kristol — was basically that sympathetic politicians should engage in a game of bait and switch. Rather than proposing unpopular spending cuts, Republicans would push through popular tax cuts, with the deliberate intention of worsening the government’s fiscal position. Spending cuts could then be sold as a necessity rather than a choice, the only way to eliminate an unsustainable budget deficit.
    • Why are Republicans reluctant to sit down and talk? Because they would then be forced to put up or shut up. Since they’re adamantly opposed to reducing the deficit with tax increases, they would have to explain what spending they want to cut. And guess what? After three decades of preparing the ground for this moment, they’re still not willing to do that.

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  • MySmartPrice: Mobile Phone Price in India

    A useful price comparison portal, currently limited to mobiles, books & cameras

    tags: mobile india shopping pricing comparison

  • Bollywood Remakes

    Quite a long list of Bollywood movies & their “inspiration”. Not every movie listed is such a big ripoff though

    tags: bollywood remakes inspiration movies hollywood

  • What’s a Degree Worth? Report Has Answers, by Major – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    “Over their careers, full-time, full-year workers whose highest degree is a bachelor’s make 74 percent more, on average, than those whose highest attainment is a high-school diploma, the authors found. When those with more than a bachelor’s degree are included, the premium for higher education rises to 84 percent.”

    tags: education economics

  • Warren Buffett on castles and moats – (37signals)

    Revisiting the competitive advantage concepts…
    “In business, I look for economic castles protected by
    unbreachable ‘moats’.”
    -Warren Buffett

    tags: Business strategy competition economics

  • Android or iPhone? Wrong Question « abovethecrowd.com

    Another piece on Android focusing on the business model:
    “Some will argue that the best product will win the market and that Apple will still dominate the smartphone market. The history of the personal computer market is no omen for this thesis. If you think about it, the people that know this better than anyone are the exact Apple loyalists who have been frustrated for years at Apple’s lack of dominance in the PC market. Disruptive business strategies can and have trumped better products. And with no change to the current market, the Android leveraged position in the market could result in staggering unit share gains. This is not to say that the Google Android is better than or as good as the Apple iPhone. The key point is that it does not have to be. It only needs to be dramatically better than the current feature phone. Which it is.”
    “With its disruptive and leveraged strategy, it is Google that is attempting to be the Microsoft of the smartphone market. Perhaps ironically, Apple is well positioned to be the “Apple” of the smartphone market.”

    tags: Google android iphone mobile Business strategy apple

  • The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com

    Google is doing what Microsoft did, and in a very different way… “Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not “products” in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own “economic castles.” Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive “moats,” funded by the height and magnitude of Google’s castle. Google’s aim is defensive not offensive. They are not trying to make a profit on Android or Chrome. They want to take any layer that lives between themselves and the consumer and make it free (or even less than free). Because these layers are basically software products with no variable costs, this is a very viable defensive strategy. In essence, they are not just building a moat; Google is also scorching the earth for 250 miles around the outside of the castle to ensure no one can approach it. And best I can tell, they are doing a damn good job of it.”

    tags: Google android Business strategy

  • The Truth About That ‘Landmark’ Twitter Case – Twitter

    So, a landmark case that wasn’t
    “Needless to say, despite Twitter clearly doing all it can to help maintain the privacy of its users, maybe it’s time we all reviewed & reconsidered the TOS of some of our most used services, particularly where anonymity is concerned.”

    tags: twitter privacy anonymity identity

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