Elevation Partners Director and Co-Founder Roger McNamee
Roger is an investor in some huge tech successes. He’s in a band, loves HTML5 and has invested in Forbes and National Geographic. This guy is engaging, entertaining and makes some very succinct points on where he thinks the future lies.
Here’s some topics he covers:
- Demise of Microsoft Means Opportunity
- Google in a Tough Spot
- Creativity Rules in HTML5
- Apple Domination in Tablets
- Access from Any Screen
- The Social Wave Is Over
- TV the Last Protected Media
- Why Apple Supports HTML5
- Money in the Music Industry
Oooh, this is seriously nerdy!
Right now I’m playing with the “circles” on the uber-new Google Plus (Google+) using the Google Chrome browser (of course!) and I’m running the experimental Google Chromium OS (operating system) on a Mac!
I guess Google Plus isn’t quite ready for prime time. Pity, it looked pretty awesome. Briefly.
How does this even happen? Seems time went backwards for me yesterday. No wonder I’m feeling tired today.
Google search now in SSL
I was in a coffee shop, connecting to the web via a wifi connection and noticed that Google redirected me to a secure connection (HTTPS) for my searches. Pretty neat, if you’re paranoid about privacy. Which I can’t say that I am, but cool anyway.
(via Google)
Source: encrypted.google.com
Woohoo - Multiple Profiles in Google Chrome
I can’t tell you how long I have waited for this.
Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com
Apple’s iPhone as a business is nearly twice the size of Google’s entire operation.
Google's new +1 Button
What do you think?
http://www.google.com/ 1/button/
A Google “me too” of Facebook Like? Too geeky? A win for advertisers? I’m having some doubts.
Google or DropBox? Or both?
I’m torn. I use Google Apps. I use DropBox. I love ‘em both.
I also have gigs of photos, docs and music I’d like to backup online.
DropBox is $99 per year for 50 gigs.
Google is $20 for 80 gigs. Or for the same price as DropBox ($100) I’d get 400 gigs on Google!
But DropBox syncs so nicely. (Except that I can’t specify to not sync via 3G!)
And the DropBox UI is so nice. And it integrates right into your file system.
But we use Google Picasa at home, and it plays nicely with Google’s cloud storage. And we use Google Apps at work, so sharing would be easier. And we now have User Managed Storage on Google - which beats giving everyone equal disk quotas which they don’t all use at the same rate…
Arrghh! Come on Google, just buy DropBox and mash ‘em together.
Google launches Cloud Connect for MS Office
Watch the video for an explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H12teRzulW0&feature=player_embedded
Looks promising! Document version control too. Nice.
Source: googleenterprise.blogspot.com
Data for the remaining 0.012% of affected users has been successfully restored from tapes and is now being processed,
Facebook Books $1.86B in 2010 Advertising Revenue; Muscles In on Google Turf
This post is mostly for the benefit of my less tech-savvy friends and family who think Facebook “makes no money”…
Well, they apparently took in $1.86 billion in worldwide advertising revenue for 2010. Facebook generated $1.86 billion in worldwide advertising revenue for 2010.
Article here
Not too shabby, hey, Nige? Ja, but I here Google also doesn’t make any money, since it’s free, right?
