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AOL new browser is a mistake.
This is a good example of how AT&T gets the web in a wrong way. At least they would have done some vertical browser. Do they ever reach 1% market share? Do they know Dev community around IE and FF?

The Google wow begins!, below are new patterns Google recently coined,
“Using open standards to get others data and organizing all the world information in their cloud”
“Using privacy to defend click fraud”
“Outsource protocol design for free”
Google wants Facebook data, their recent attempt is open social. Click fraud is a crime Google agreed finally!
Google’s recent defending theme was “open social open social open social”, How to outsource protocol design for free? How to crawl other SN data? Social Workgroups working hard for them!
Google’s new theme “Privacy Privacy Privacy”
It is good to see that Google changed their motto. Google previously said, Click fraud is “self-correcting”. Now "Protecting our advertisers against click fraud is a lot like solving a crime"
But, Having a crime platform, defending it by privacy practice is questionable.

There are logged in users, these user clicks are most likely real clicks, fraud clicks are visible. There is Google toolbar, Cookies.. are they using these to detect click fraud? Moreover, Click programs uses botnet, are they tracking botnets? or having partnership with anyone to detect it? Do they outsource click fraud to third party?

their spying applications uses lot of techniques to uniquely identify users and companies all over the world but not their click detecting system...
How many patterns they found? Ten thousand? Twenty thousand? One hundred? Or one or two?

clicks fraud happening for many years, why suddenly Google coming forth and telling something? Looks like people (advertisers/pub) started to ask lot of questions!
Would advertisers ever escape from this black hole?

Google reader is a tiger, will kill media business. All brands are rebranded by google, sooner!
media companies waked up? if so thats 3 year delay. and there is a sleeping tiger (google reader) that no one cares much

Why I trust UN Data? (UN recently releases a Stat app – a search application)
It collects data from 200+ national statistical offices, international agencies, 60+ years of data, 90% of the word trade information. Then they combine all data in their datawarehouse, and available to users for FREE. UN is not a business organization, they are not listed in NYSE. They are not displaying any advertisement, even if they do that would be social ads.
“Given the recent record the reliability of the UN is not exactly 100%.”
yeah I agree, we can’t get 100% accuracy but Where else we can get reliable data? Do you want 100% ? hhhmmm There is error % in everything. We may get more accuracy when we have fully connected world and infrastructure available to every village in the world.
“trustworthiness of data can rise or fall depending on who or what is doing the input”
70 billion records downloaded in the last 4 years. If it is not reliable why downloading numbers are increasing rapidly?

China should change this attitude – arrogant Firewall policies
web is a borderless/flat world, if any country/business goes against this, latter they pay a heavy price...China should change this attitude. IMO, Governments should not involve directly on web related issues, they should force companies to follow policies and address the security concerns.

A-list gets the longtail
good to see that a-list gets the longtail :)

in response to post: Mix’08 Review: How Microsoft Is Fighting a War on Three Fronts

“I will give Redmond credit for turning faster than most big companies. When it became clear that the Internet was a big deal and they’d missed the boat, the company urged its coders to put hyperlinks everywhere, across every application”
IMO,
* Sun Microsystem missed the boat, I can remember the days in 90’s “java means internet”, Whats their revenue now?
* Yahoo missed the boat many times, they are the first one showed me search, directory, email , messenger etc. what is their revenue ?
* Google missed the boat, still they are showing 99% revenue in Advertisement.

Microsoft actually pushed internet services so early (2000), for example - .Net myservices (if I remember correctly its around 14+ services). If I see the history, Mr.Gates prediction has mixed results, few times they released in wrong time (so early or late). I believe that they are doing good job with live services at right time, but I am not sure about their search engine strategy/success.

recently yahoo released Fire Eagle (beta) and the privacy policy link not yet been updated

ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a fundamental principle of Database, but its missing in the web 2.0 distributed data.
the location information is shared with third parties. If user deletes his/her location information in yahoo servers, is it also deleted in third party servers? NO.
Users have to ask every third party to delete their Geo data. anyways, asusual "Money making" machines never worried...

in response to post: First Look at Google Health

eventually, Google and MS going to collect all US citizen medical records.

Google/MS must provide separate userid’s for the login (random id like – 1243et4323e1). They should not use same google/live id’s. and must have to enforce strict password policy. All the medical records must be encrypted. https is NOT enough. 

beta apps for medical records? hmmmmm 

anyways, if they don't provide best possible security. One way or other, bad people can get more powerful weapons. 10x powerful than nuclear….
how? Either they try to bribe, or force MS/G employees to get the medical records…what they can do with it?
here is the one possibility…they could sort it out all heart patients and kill them by making phone calls… there are more better and easier ways than this, but I don’t like to disclose.

JG,
IMO, I would like to see the final health application to users, not experiemntal beta apps.
Google if you really confident, you can do the experiments with your employees first! Don’t they have medical records?

I thought, human cloning is prohibited one, but Google is digitally cloning every one and ranking it. (Google is already collecting DNA data). Communities should demand for more security. why? Money making machines have been outsourcing security concerns to government. later they claim that its free service!!

in response to post: MSFT Is Making a Mistake
AOL is in classic age, the fight b/w Google vs Microsoft is more than what you people think!! they innovate and dominate.

"Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when they're in the middle of making a mistake."
History says - software dominates hardware. Ex: Micsoroft vs IBM

AOL Day dream - “I'm hoping the two of them will beat each others brains out over search and leave the display market to us”
Yeah they fight each other…the result? They innovate! and dominate the hardware (network).

in response to post: How High Can Apple Go? $600 a Share?

How they can reach $600?

I don’t know why these people creating hype on Apple, whenever a company becomes successful in short time (ex: Google), its nature to fascinating about it and assuming the same success with other companies. Apple not equal to Google. Google got huge success in short time with some innovation (ex:viral marketing) and more a result of favorable economics, taking a market leadership position at the right time. Apple still doesn’t know about ‘partnership’. How they reach $600? This is possible only when more than 15% PC users switch to Apple. I guess, MS would rule the current PC market share at least for next 5 years, right now they are sleeping King Kong. Let’s see whether Apple can reach to $250. I would invest on companies who build products which connect rich clients with Cloud services, allow the user to move their data around clouds, among devices. They are the one could get success like Google.

thanks
Saran

in response to post: Could Google Reader team have done a better PR job?

#21 No. its not their decision, pls don’t assume as a Free Product. This is an exchange between users and a company by a “Free relationship”, you give your data free, they give free services and making money on it. It doesn’t mean they can do anything they want. They have more than 90% control on your data, how much control you have? If communities don’t demand for control then the companies decision is the final one, eventually would become a law.

privacy is a dynamic and rapidly changing in 21 century. no one has clear definition, people want to make money, hence privacy being defined by trial and error basis. Google using this as a chance for viral marketing and outsourcing their privacy related concerns to users and understanding their reactions/emotions. welcome to privacy 2.0. to me, privacy is something that has to allow ME to determine to whom and when my information is to be shared (GReader’s new feature went beyond this limit, I hope they don’t do when I have my DNA info at 23andme). This definition is somewhat vague, can’t be applied to Government bodies, you have no opt-out with Govt but I can move my data among private companies (in this case, export in Greader). Personally, I have less trust on private companies (especially Google) than Gov, hence I store my data around clouds.

Kind rgrds
Saran

in response to post: Is India adapting to the Night Shift?

Is India growing up too quickly? NO  Rich people in india are growing so quickly.

AP has asked only to high profile people. But the reality is...Recently, I met my childhood friend, when we were talking about lot of matters, He told that his neighbor sold his kidney for $300. I was shocked, people are willing to sale their body parts. I guess, at least for next 10 years, India would lead in the "organ bazaar".

I don't thing poverty ends soon in India (~ 30% of population is living below poverty line vs Indians are keep increasing in the worlds richest list), hence rest of the world get better human bodies till poverty line goes below 10%.

Kind rgrds
Saran