Google’s new mission

Google’s new mission : to organize own the world’s information.

Home cooking…

is killing the restaurant industry. And couchsurfing, AirBnB and the like are killing the hotel industry. So, what to do? Hotels in NYC are trying to outlaw them.

Twitter = vuvuzela

Twitter is the Vuvuzela of the internet. Everyone has a horn, blows it loudly, resulting in pure buzzing noise.

- Jeremiah Owyang

And now, a Facebook-killer

Remember when Buzz killed Twitter? You don’t? me neither. Apparently, Google is going to go after Facebook now. More laughs to come. What’s next, the Zune?

To email, to google and not to tweet

The NY Times likes neither the verb “to tweet” nor the noun “tweet”.

Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is what we should use in news articles.

Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And “tweet” — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three.

How strange – I thought they had changed the world as much as Google had ;-)

It’s the new New Economy, baby!

Free service number 1 with no business model in sight wages war against free service number 2 with equally no business model in sight. “web2.0″ is the new “New Economy”.

Google now like Bing

It’s a “decision engine”. You can decide if you want flowers or sailing boats or mountains as the backdrop to your Google search engine decision engine homepage. Say: “wow” ;-)

who would have thought

Paying customers to use your search engine is not a viable business model. After a full two years, even Microsoft understood it, and they are now shutting down cashback.

if it ain’t broke don’t fix it

I’m glad to read that I’m not the only one who doesn’t like Google’s new interface.

They are profiting from my paper!

Rupert Murdoch:

This morning I learned that when Fernanda takes out the garbage, the stuff in the blue bin goes to some kind of factory that converts it into new materials. They are profiting from my paper! I told Fernanda she needs to wait by the curb and collect a fee next time the men cart off my castaways.

- SF Weekly