I found this article in business week discussing the process which Google uses to release new products to the market. I found it somewhat interesting that the author talks about all the failures that Google has produced using this model, and they Google should be finding wasy to diversify it’s business model from its current base of Advertising.
I think the author of this article is far too focused on the idea that Google should be trying to expand its core business, when I believe that Google is focused on finding new places for its core business to operate.
Most of the “new” services Google is offering are nothing more then ways to extend the reach of their core business. Take for example Gmail, an amazing free mail service that has allowed Google another outlet for its advertisers to place ads. Through the beta we have seen more advertising, and better ad targeting due to information being collected about you through Gmail.
Another example of this strategy is Google Video which is now placing targeted advertising in videos in order to provide their advertisers with yet another venue to attract consumers. To me it just seems that Google has been looking for ways to increase how much money it can make from its core business, which of course is advertising.
These “new” services that Google releases, in my opinion, are just extensions of this core business model. So in the end isn’t Google doing a great job?
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Ever wanted to read Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page’s “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”? Or Donald E. Knuth’s “Computer Programming as an Art”? But wait, there’s more!
 I’d also like to add to this list one of the best historical books written on computers and their development, The Universal History of Computing, by George Ifrah. I just finished reading this book and must say it is one of the most thorough historical tellings of computing I have ever read.
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Interesting article finally explaining a good way to remotely monitor memory usage in Linux/UNIX/Windows.
I finally have a utility that can parse all the memory, and network stats from both my linux box and my windows server box.
Time to get this puppy setup…
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“This year GNOME received 181 applications to Google’s Summer of Code program, yet none were from women. As a result, they’ve decided to address this imbalance by launching an outreach program to sponsor three female students to work on GNOME-related projects this summer.”
Most any science department will tell you that the amount of interest and involvement of women pales next to men of similar age and background. Is this sponsorship a creative way to get women interested in GNOME, or is it merely sexist?
Sara I think this is your opportunity to get involved in the summer of code, and with your favourite thing ever C! You have to take this opportunity or I will be really mad at you, you gotta embrace C at some point.
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“LCD panels have traditionally been lagging behind CRT monitors in terms of color response, saturation, accuracy and overall black-level response.- However, a company named eCinema Systems has announced a new LCD technology that it claims surpasses CRT in virtually every respect.”
This technology is really fantastic and should push the price of current LCDs down further. This should finally allow me to purchase that LCD I’ve been dying to put in my room, giddy up.
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