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Re: Watch the Google anthill move toward social and real time

jonathan rose — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:15:55 -0000

Google doesn't have the fundamentals of a company like Microsoft, it will probably never truly reach the same size in terms of turnover and asset value although artificial non fundamental based hype will elevate its share price beyond justified realms

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Arc"Boracay Sports"Noah — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:51:57 -0000

So it’s best to describe Google as ants Working hard together to achieve goals.

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Gerald Buckley — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:25:55 -0000

Mr. Scoble - LOVE that anthill video. Wonder what well established dot com we can pump full of concrete and excavate around to find the surprising tunnels and interconnected backchannel connections. Let's open it up for nominations. K? Who gets the concrete galoshes gang?

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Diablo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:17:16 -0000

Really interesting how everything is changing.

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Prasad Velagaleti — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:37:07 -0000

Waiting for your thoughts on Google Wave...

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Prokofy — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:03:41 -0000

Robert what are you saying about wave.google.com and is Wave going to put Twitter and Friendfeed out of business by moving it all into gmail, or people will ostensibly have their own Wave servers?

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High Tech — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:11 -0000

I think Google needs to go real time in their searches. If they don't, someone else may find a way to do it. There have been a lot of companies that looked like they were going to be on the top of the mountain forever, but then some upstart does something a little better and everyone falls in love with them instead.

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Shawn — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:56:28 -0000

Google is already on the move to step in real time world like twitter. Google devs are doing hardwork to create a gadget named wave... just like other google gadgets. no matter google's earlier gadget proved to be a big failure but i guess this one would give them a pitch...

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Eves — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:04:24 -0000

very interesting concept of google as an ant farm - anywho.... I find the video more interesting though :)....

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Chris Lang — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:21:47 -0000

I found @Charbax comment real interesting, I have said it would be Unbuntu that would be on the Christmas shelves for less than $200 this Christmas. My Windows install kept overheating due to a fan going south in the middle of a big launch last week and at the same time putting together another deal for another product on the phone.

No time to be installing fans so I rebooted to Ubuntu and because I use a browser OS I was back in business in two minutes. Most do not even need Windows anymore, they consume everything thru the browser. We are too close to the flame to see that but my best friends are a plumber and a commercial electrician.

They make great money, are working class guys like me, but when they use a computer they don't need more than a browser and I just made a full time switch to Ubuntu. Now if Chrome would finally release a stable build for Linux I would be all set. Why Chrome, it comes with Google Gears, offline access to your online Google apps.

Scoble is always ahead of his time here and Charbax, that is would changing news. The web browser OS is just down the road for the masses. Browser because it is not dependent on any OS, all you need to do now is boot a machine, the rest is waiting for you online in many different forms, not at home on your machine.

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Chris Lang — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:58:16 -0000

It's too bad that the original Facebook / Google Friend Connect hook up failed. Combined with Digg as well this would have been a complete package. But you know, $260 million from Microsoft has a way of turning Facebook's head.

But like I have said before and certainly not the first one to say it, competition is a good thing. The entire Facebook Connect / Google Friend Connect / Microsoft very quiet war only makes them all stronger and more apt to produce their best work and we profit.

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Chris Lang — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:52:29 -0000

I certainly agree with you all. I am running my entire business and colaboration between myself and my assistant is done thru Google docs. I share a spreadsheet with one of my business partners and we can both track my distribution of his app. On my latest Windows reformat I did not bother with office. Checkout my other comment on why I am not even using Windows any more down the page.

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Lucas Wyrsch — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:57:27 -0000

Dear Robert,

The ants in the ecosystems are using a stigmergic system, a mechanism of spontaneous, indirect coordination between agents or actions, where the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action, by the same or a different agent. Stigmergy is a form of self-organization. It produces complex, apparently intelligent structures, without need for any planning, control, or even communication between the agents. As such it supports efficient collaboration between extremely simple agents, who lack any memory, intelligence or even awareness of each other.

You'll find more in Peter Small's stigmergic systems
http://www.stigmergicsystem...

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Jon H. — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:56:34 -0000

Will Google acquire Identi.ca ?

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LEADSExplorer — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:57 -0000

Moving to real-time will be difficult as it will be a culture shock for the company. Google has been into documenting the past with Search, Maps, Earth, Streetview. All rather static data.
Now their way of thinking and building need to move into real-time.
Good luck.

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AndrewTerry — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:17:23 -0000

Microsoft did, in fact, ship Cairo, and I'll bet that many of your readers are using it today.

The Greek letters Chi (pronounced "Kai") and Rho are represented by the modern letters X and P. So, Cairo = Chi Rho = XP.

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Windowslogy — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:36:26 -0000

I agreed partly because Google is still beginning to catch up with real-time search. Real-time search is much depending on users who want to take part in distributing the information right now that Googlebot can record right now. Twitter is practicing real-time communication among Twitterers despite it doesn't have any powerful search yet. Should Google go ahead and put a powerful search with a real-time communication. That is going to be robust.

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Chris — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:40:26 -0000

I'm driving up Tuesday after work to SF for I/O. I will see "Jay Leno" on the big movie screen announcing their windows95 shift. But then again I already know what it is. They've been repeating it for ever. Blizzard was repeating it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

This and Android's cupcake.

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Chris — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:35:50 -0000

"Executives there told me to be there to witness the shift."

Smart developers have pen and paper and are patenting as much of the shift as humanly possible before it happens.

What if you could have patented web browsing? Or patented RSS?

Now is the time. Google can't pre-empt every utility surrounding this. It's first come, first serve.

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JackHumphrey — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:16:51 -0000

There's definitely a lot going on here and the ant hill analogy is spot on. All of Google's properties seem to get more connected and interesting on a weekly basis. They just don't talk much about the connections because, as Chris Lang puts it, they don't want SEOs to easily figure out how Google is using its properties to help determine SERPS.

They are though. Big time!

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mimetz — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:10:40 -0000

Robert, your new blog design looks great. It took a few days to get used to it but I'm used to it. And the level of social connectedness throughout the page is pretty awesome, congrats. It's a model to learn from.

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Peter Stuifzand — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:23:44 -0000

It seems your Facebook profile can be found on page 8 of the Google results.

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charlietuna — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:10:06 -0000

You should check out my old blog post making a prediction on when Google will reach real-time search ( ~1 second ):

http://www.satine.org/archi...

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Edwin Khodabakchian — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:29:39 -0000

I agree with Mike. I think that the effort Google has put into Google Apps and the convergence of Chrome + Google App Engine + GData is about to pay off and drive a deep and long term transformation in the enterprise productivity/collaboration market. At least that is what gets me excited.

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Mike Elliott — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:50:06 -0000

I couldn't agree more. Not only are they positioning to dominate the social web but Google Apps is getting more robust by the day. I have completely replaced all other office applications with Google Apps. They are the operating system of the future and there is nobody else even close to competing with them. But just like Windows made personal desktop computing more affordable and accessible to the masses Google is making collaborative computing more accessible. The obvious difference between the two players is the Open API framework, the dynamics of which have changed the game in ways we're only beginning to see. Despite the concerns about their far reaching dominance I for one am excited to see what the future brings.