Monthly Archives: October 2006

Some notes on Google 0

Just after the deal between Google and YouTube I wrote a short entry on why noone is discussing Google:s very impressive strategy to become the number one player on the whole internet market. It really surprises me is that the same people who blamed Microsoft now seemed completely blinded by the “vision” of Google. Wasn’t [...]

Ethics of bloggers 0

Nicholas Carr is writing about the ethics of blogging in a way I haven’t thought of that much before. I think his post is excellent, and brings up some issues which need to be discussed in the blogosphere. I have for a long time been firm on stating that we need “some” structure and praxis [...]

Does monopoly ring a bell? 0

I read some recent blog post on the Google-YouTube acquisition. Look at the chart at http://googlelogs.blogspot.com. One question immediately pops up. Didn’t the first step get taken to a total monopoly of the user-contributed media market for video? If so, is that good or bad? Personally I am skeptical. We will see. Obviously and without [...]

Google buys YouTube… Hmmm… 0

I guess it is a great thing… I spoke to a friend Thursday when the rumor just started. We concluded that the acquisition is all about getting the biggest chunk of the market, or to some extent the whole market. I do not think it has anything to do with what YouTube is actually doing. [...]

Conceptual mobile approach for emerging markets 0

I have been discussing cellphone approaches in lately and wrote a short entry on it. This is only an approach how to deal with cellphones and the web, and the strategy needs to be defined out of each unique situation, each country and each project. Using the approach to define it is however a good [...]