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The Google Algorithm – Sublime parody!

July 17, 2010

I’ve already tweeted this but it is so good that I think it deserves a quick blog post too. I’ve done a lot of Google-Bashing in the past months, but must give credit where it is due. So here goes: Step 1: Read this excellent  article from the New York Times in its entirety. It’s [...]

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What are Google’s ultimate plans with street view?

July 3, 2010

Something doesn’t add up. The Google Street View project has caused Google more PR damage than any of their other projects. There are presently investigations in Europe, Australia, Canada and Hong Kong. In addition more than 30 US state attorneys general have launched their own probes. As law professor Eric Goldman says:  “This is the [...]

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It’s not about the privacy

May 26, 2010

The privacy concerns of the netizens of the world is probably the defining groundswell of 2010. And the 2 big players – Facebook & the big G – keep stumbling from one PR blunder into the next. As many commentators have said, the open nature of the Neb has landed society in completely new territory [...]

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Engineering versus Art – did Google get it wrong?

May 13, 2010

More than a year ago, Google’s (then) lead visual designer – Douglas Bowman – resigned from Google after frustration with their decision process on design. Yes, I know that was a long time ago, but I’ve often thought about it since then, and the time has come to post about it. What interested me specifically [...]

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In Defence of Apple’s Walled garden

April 15, 2010

The “open-source” versus “closed-propriety” clash is not a new one.  On a personal level I’d certainly describe myself as an open-source advocate. I’m a zealous Mozilla convert and Firefox and Thunderbird is where 90% of my working day happens. Just about all the other software I use is open source too.  But its starting to [...]

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The Google China Conspiracy

March 23, 2010

OK kids, time to don your tin foil hats. So here’s the scene: Google is about to exit China. Ostensibly because:  A couple of Anti-China Human Rights Gmail accounts were hacked. And the hackers ostensibly had sinister links with the Chinese Government… Big Deal! Lets get real guys, Google isn’t leaving the biggest online market [...]

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Eric Schmidt – Master Puppeteer

March 19, 2010

If you look very carefully you will see wooden puppet control rods in each of Schmidt’s hands, with strings attached onto the backs of Brin and Page. There’s a couple at the back of their jaw bones too (obscured by their heads), for assisted ventriloquism.  Schmidt is pulling those strings right now – hence the [...]

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