I don't want to add a "me too" comment but I'm a true story of failed Linux Migration. I deleted everything on my home computer and moved to Suse (my first time exposure).
I was in awe of the interface and the wealth of customization available for the interface.
But...I'm an avid gamer and couldn't:
1- Get my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro work flawlessly with the computer. 2- Get wine to play games. 3- Couldn't find my fav titles for Linux. Quake 3 is a bit too old now.:)
But worry not, an old PC is now a perm Linux machine AND an additional hardrive gives me the linux exposure. Get games to work on Linux I would switch in a heart beat! I kid you not.
You don't have to trust the advertiser.
Google will require the advertiser to use it's own tracking code on the relevant pages.
Google will then track the conversions.
Also, www.snap.com, a new search engine has CPA (Cost Per Action) model. You pay snap only when someone buys a product from your site.
Also interesting to note that snap is started by the same guy who initially started goto.com, which became overture.com, which became Yahoo Marketing. Goto.com precedes Google Adwords. The guy is Bill Gross and you can see his other projects on idealab.com
I work in Search Engine Marketing it bums the hell out of me that Google and Yahoo have not started CPA as an offering..
I feel that craigslist wouldn't be "Craigslist" today if it weren't for the plain looking, "un-targeted", advertising free website. I would have stopped using them a long time ago if I had sniffed them becoming business.com.
"Unless they've also managed to upgrade all of their employees' emotional and intellectual IQ, I'd say they have the world's most modern recipe for unmitigated workplace anarchy."
You make an assumption first, indicating that this is an assumption.
And based on that assumption, without verifying or qualifying it further, you make a conclusion: "This sounds like a PR stunt."
I categorically disagree with your conclusion. Personal humility of a CEO is not sought after in the US (despite ground-breaking work by Jim Collins http://www.jimcollins.com/). If this indeed was a PR attempt, given that their market is the US, they would have chosen a different message.
I work for a company where we rank managers the same way they do. The results are unbelievable for innovation and for employee satisfaction, which in turn leads to more innovation.
It's part of a new school of thought called "bottoms-up" instead of "top-down". Interesting things happen when a non-linear dynamic system (such as an organization) embraces "bottoms-up".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergenc e/
I sincerely hope that you and likes of you embrace the new revolution silently going about. Expression, communication and change are no longer a virtue of the powerful, may it be the Government, CEOs of a company or anyone else. Expression, communication and change are now emerging from the masses. Why should a company be any different? You get a whole lot of smart people, give them stock options and let them decided, bottoms-up, where they want to go, and see what happens. $.
I go through the same dilemma when I want to buy a new computer!
"Let's wait for them to work up on the new physics card"/
Smells like propaganda...err...Public Relations.
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Sorries for using the word "propaganda". But anything that distorts a picture is propaganda, keeping in mind that propaganda is not always about furnishing false statements. False percepts can be rendered even when furnishing entirely true statements.
The article is built on rhetoric that has no purpose or value. Aren't a lot of companies adaptive? Stem cell analogy? WTF?
Consider this sentence:"The Google Video Store currently competes with Apple's iTunes, which for the time being is more user-friendly and has a substantially larger market-share. But given Google's distribution network -- either through Froogle or its Google Base -- the market-share gap could narrow in a hurry."
IS the writer kidding? iTunes is not just some store that currently happens to have a larger market-share that Froogle and Google Base would compete with, just like that. iTunes is a fashion statement that every teen needs to make. iTunes is "cool". GBase and Froogle won't take it out just like that.
The writer fails to mention that as Google broadens into more services it's reach and use also dilute. In order to rock this world Google needs more than engineers. It needs visionaries like Steve Jobs who understand media and design and fads and all those rhetorical things that us digiratis disregard because we are logical and precise. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is not.
A publically traded corporation is by law, required to uphold the interests of the shareholders foremost, above anything else.
The above clause would be invoked if the majority shareholders demanded for forecasts. Half a dozen wall street analysts are not the majority shareholders, ergo, the law does not apply to Google as of yet.
Furthermore, the wall street analyst is commiting a logical fallacy by declaring that somehow their own demand equates to the sharedholders' demands.
nobody is saying that there ain't gonna be any support. ms wont release sp3 for xp becuz it can cloud vista's arrival. pure marketing. they actually threw sp3 a year away from vista's release.
is it because there's no need for an sp3 for 1.7 years?
or is because sp3 coming out near vista release would cloud the roll out for the new product?
u decide.
it's all about marketing and "perception management".
it would be stupid to release an update to the existing xp when the new vista is coming out. they sell on the idea of 'newness' and 'newness' would fade out with updating existing xp to an sp3.
I read the article with utmost objectivity. I employed Morgan Jones's analysis techniques as well as Edward De Bono's structuring methods. Here are my judgment-free one line assessment of the piece: It's full of shit.
No substance. Rhetorical treatise on MS's innovation.
but new. and this is my first post. mercy.
So we have hyperlinks in a page. We click and we go to a section in the site. Problem: where we want to conveniently hop to is at the mercy of the webmaster.
Instead, I see a term on a page. The term is not necessarily hyperlinked. I right click, click on 'hyperlink', window opens on site and shows all pages in the site where the term exists.
Off I go my merry way. Gotto think through the work flow process. But I think our google can do something like this by breakfast.
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I don't want to add a "me too" comment but I'm a true story of failed Linux Migration.
:)
I deleted everything on my home computer and moved to Suse (my first time exposure).
I was in awe of the interface and the wealth of customization available for the interface.
But...I'm an avid gamer and couldn't:
1- Get my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro work flawlessly with the computer.
2- Get wine to play games.
3- Couldn't find my fav titles for Linux. Quake 3 is a bit too old now.
But worry not, an old PC is now a perm Linux machine AND an additional hardrive gives me the linux exposure.
Get games to work on Linux I would switch in a heart beat! I kid you not.
You don't have to trust the advertiser. Google will require the advertiser to use it's own tracking code on the relevant pages. Google will then track the conversions. Also, www.snap.com, a new search engine has CPA (Cost Per Action) model. You pay snap only when someone buys a product from your site. Also interesting to note that snap is started by the same guy who initially started goto.com, which became overture.com, which became Yahoo Marketing. Goto.com precedes Google Adwords. The guy is Bill Gross and you can see his other projects on idealab.com I work in Search Engine Marketing it bums the hell out of me that Google and Yahoo have not started CPA as an offering..
I feel that craigslist wouldn't be "Craigslist" today if it weren't for the plain looking, "un-targeted", advertising free website. I would have stopped using them a long time ago if I had sniffed them becoming business.com.
Would somebody pls upload it to Google Video?
You make an assumption first, indicating that this is an assumption.
And based on that assumption, without verifying or qualifying it further, you make a conclusion: "This sounds like a PR stunt."
I categorically disagree with your conclusion. Personal humility of a CEO is not sought after in the US (despite ground-breaking work by Jim Collins http://www.jimcollins.com/). If this indeed was a PR attempt, given that their market is the US, they would have chosen a different message.
I work for a company where we rank managers the same way they do. The results are unbelievable for innovation and for employee satisfaction, which in turn leads to more innovation.
It's part of a new school of thought called "bottoms-up" instead of "top-down". Interesting things happen when a non-linear dynamic system (such as an organization) embraces "bottoms-up".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergenc e/
I sincerely hope that you and likes of you embrace the new revolution silently going about. Expression, communication and change are no longer a virtue of the powerful, may it be the Government, CEOs of a company or anyone else. Expression, communication and change are now emerging from the masses. Why should a company be any different? You get a whole lot of smart people, give them stock options and let them decided, bottoms-up, where they want to go, and see what happens. $.
I go through the same dilemma when I want to buy a new computer! "Let's wait for them to work up on the new physics card"/
Sorries for using the word "propaganda". But anything that distorts a picture is propaganda, keeping in mind that propaganda is not always about furnishing false statements. False percepts can be rendered even when furnishing entirely true statements. The article is built on rhetoric that has no purpose or value. Aren't a lot of companies adaptive? Stem cell analogy? WTF? Consider this sentence:"The Google Video Store currently competes with Apple's iTunes, which for the time being is more user-friendly and has a substantially larger market-share. But given Google's distribution network -- either through Froogle or its Google Base -- the market-share gap could narrow in a hurry." IS the writer kidding? iTunes is not just some store that currently happens to have a larger market-share that Froogle and Google Base would compete with, just like that. iTunes is a fashion statement that every teen needs to make. iTunes is "cool". GBase and Froogle won't take it out just like that. The writer fails to mention that as Google broadens into more services it's reach and use also dilute. In order to rock this world Google needs more than engineers. It needs visionaries like Steve Jobs who understand media and design and fads and all those rhetorical things that us digiratis disregard because we are logical and precise. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is not.
Interesting thought. $100Laptop+Wifi+Homeless_Living_on_the_street = ? Possible data entry jobs? Possible way to bring out the homeless?
Emergence. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence Be enlightened. I was, when I came across the phenomenon the first time.
A publically traded corporation is by law, required to uphold the interests of the shareholders foremost, above anything else. The above clause would be invoked if the majority shareholders demanded for forecasts. Half a dozen wall street analysts are not the majority shareholders, ergo, the law does not apply to Google as of yet. Furthermore, the wall street analyst is commiting a logical fallacy by declaring that somehow their own demand equates to the sharedholders' demands.
Current world affairs suggest contrary.
perception is the key. how many users realize what u say? marketing!!!
nobody is saying that there ain't gonna be any support. ms wont release sp3 for xp becuz it can cloud vista's arrival. pure marketing. they actually threw sp3 a year away from vista's release. is it because there's no need for an sp3 for 1.7 years? or is because sp3 coming out near vista release would cloud the roll out for the new product? u decide. it's all about marketing and "perception management".
it would be stupid to release an update to the existing xp when the new vista is coming out. they sell on the idea of 'newness' and 'newness' would fade out with updating existing xp to an sp3.
Does Suse 10 support ati 9700 grfx cards out of the box? Or do we go through that painstaking ritual again.
I read the article with utmost objectivity. I employed Morgan Jones's analysis techniques as well as Edward De Bono's structuring methods. Here are my judgment-free one line assessment of the piece: It's full of shit. No substance. Rhetorical treatise on MS's innovation.
Google can offer free office and other software in some sort of ASP model. But how do they make money? By infrastructure!
Google looking for dark fiber sales rep. Google offering web office. Makes perfect sense.
In order to prove something false, it must first assumed to be true.
You know the patent spree could be related to shutting out opensource movement. They patent trivial things and opensource can't do them.
I wonder how the patent would affect netflix? They use prior history to recommend movies. What are netflix's options?
but new. and this is my first post. mercy. So we have hyperlinks in a page. We click and we go to a section in the site. Problem: where we want to conveniently hop to is at the mercy of the webmaster. Instead, I see a term on a page. The term is not necessarily hyperlinked. I right click, click on 'hyperlink', window opens on site and shows all pages in the site where the term exists. Off I go my merry way. Gotto think through the work flow process. But I think our google can do something like this by breakfast.