It looks like Microsoft and News Corp could be entering into this type of pay for play agreement:...

loganf, exactly, it's a case of 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.'

Thanks for the comment.

Ron

I'm not sure where you're going with this argument, Carling. If anything the proliferation of netbooks would mean more work getting done on the Web on web sites. Further, I see the underlying OS like...

Mark Cuban, the eccentric owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, has a post in his blog (http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/13/google-murdoch-madoff/) this week suggesting a way to kill Google by paying...

You can always count on Rupert Murdoch, the cantankerous News Corp. chairman, for a good laugh and he didn't disappoint this week during an interview on Sky News Australia...

Hi js112:
Thanks so much for the view on the ground in China. It's great to get your perspective and thanks for the comment.

Ron

I don't recall anyone suggesting that Baidu had better local search results. If anything, we agree that it's based more on the fact that it's made by Chinese for Chinese, more than anything else. But...

When you are dealing with a populations as large as China's, even when you take into consideration that three quarters of the population doesn't have internet access, you are still talking about a...

Right. I didn't mean to minimize the impact. I agree that video is going to be huge, but it really didn't warrant mainstream attention. When Google changes the way it indexes, that's another matter...

In a wide-ranging interview with the German Magazine Der Spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,644229,00.html)recently, the Head of Google Europe, Philipp Schindler, defended...

I'm special, so special.
I got to have some of your attention, give it to me!
~Pretenders, Brass in Pocket

Ah the games companies play trying so hard to get our attention. For the last 6 weeks...

I agree about Bing. I think the numbers we are seeing are curiosity about a new entry fueled by a very expensive media campaign. I'm not sure that bandwidth matters for most people using a broadband...

Today Yahoo! is releasing (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10291462-93.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1) a new version of its search tool with many changes. This is significant for a number of...

It's not always easy,
And sometimes life can be deceiving,
I'll tell you one thing, its always better when we're together
~Jack Johnson, Better Together

News leaked out this morning on the All...

When Microsoft first announced their retail strategy back in February I wrote a post called Microsoft Retail Strategy Doomed to Fail (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4030.html) and I haven't...

I think actually Chrome will be even simpler based on the descriptions. It's job as I understand is to get you to the browser and get you online. There will be very little in the way of customization...

At the end of May, Computerworld reported (http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/304693/has_asus_all_given_up_linux?rid=-219) that Asus (http://usa.asus.com/), one of the early Netbook success...

I've speculated in the past (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4290.html) that nothing could keep Google from moving Android from a phone to a computer. After all a phone is just a hand-held...

Thanks for you comment and your compliment. I appreciate it.

Ron

One of the big rules of online advertising as I understand it is that you count success to a great extent based on how many people click through to your site. It's really the basis of how people get...

Hi:
Thanks for the comment. I agree. I don't need the picture either, I'm there for the results as fast as I can get them. Bing does have some nice touches, but as I wrote Google has such control of...

I've seen a lot of love for Microsoft's newly branded search engine, Bing (http://www.bing.com/) lately and frankly I just don't get it. Bing landed a couple of weeks ago with a huge ad budget (as I...

Tbeek:
Nobody is denying its potential to be a very powerful app, but there are still open questions beyond seeing every keystroke and it it's worth having a discussion about the pros and cons of...

Thanks for your extremely thoughtful analysis, Greg. I'm sure it's worth far more than 2 cents.

I appreciate you taking the time to leave such a lengthy and thoughtful comment.

Ron

Hi Imma:
Thanks for taking the time to comment and give me your thoughts. I think it's a little different than most real life communication. It has the potential to be more like the commodity's...

Hi Bruce:
Thanks for the link. Nice site.

Ron

Koopman,
Thanks for the comment. It may look similar to you and clearly takes from several different models, but I think if you look closely that the way they are implementing Wave is new and...

Thanks for including the link on your post. I guess great minds think a like. :-)

Ron

Hi Synrath:
I'm not forgetting your point at all. i realize it's a very preliminary snap shot, you're right that the idea is more than worthwhile, but I do think Google gets into these things for a...

Jason,
You make excellent points. The idea of a communications system minus the spam is a compelling one, on that point alone, and this is so much more than that. I'm not denying it's amazing...

FYI I watched the first 40 minutes because it provided a demonstration of the end user functionality, which was what interested me for the purposes of this post. The rest of the video was on web...

Hi Julie:
Great point. People will need to be taught how to use this tool effectively, wisely and well. Lots of potential, but like any tool, in the wrongs hands it could be dangerous. :-)

Ron

Lots of talk about Google Wave (http://wave.google.com/) last week, but after reading five articles that all described it in a similar fashion, I still didn't quite get what all the fuss was about....

It's never a dull moment when it comes to Google, Microsoft and Apple (which is why I write about them so much), and this week Google and Microsoft made some big announcements.

For Google, it was...

Ad Age reports (http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=136847) that Microsoft is ready to spend $80M to try and turn people's attention away from Google, the dominant search market leader, and...

You can get a TV Tuner card for each of their PCs, then run the cable to the tuner card. Then you can get software like SnapStream to watch and record TV just like the DVR. It's a thought, and in the...

I was watching an ad the other day for Panasonic where it showed people watching YouTube on a big flat screen TV in the living room. Yet most people don't watch content from the web on TV, probably...

Ms. Mayer went to Washington (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10234622-93.html) the other day to defend Google against recent attacks that it is responsible for the ongoing problems of newspapers....

Ken,
This sounds awesome. I love my new HP Mini, all except for the fact it's running Windows. I'm downloading this immediately and trying it. Sounds well worth the $20. Thanks for taking the time...

The Android is about to take the leap from the cell phone to the netbook, and much like the first Android-powered cell phone, the first iteration is a bit of head-shaker. Instead of a dazzling...