Tag: Bing

Stay hungry, stay foolish, keep Searching

In his 2005 Standford commencement address, Steve Jobs ended with ” Stay hungry. Stay foolish”. Today, we should add “keep searching”. After Google, Bing and Yahoo and Blekko, which promised to keep out spam.

Wild Wild West.  More content, more classification, increasing need for trusted recommendation.

Part of the reason Facebook is where it is today is due to the ease of sharing (photo, film clip and music video).

We , the anchoring community, are the algorithm, the editorial board of our swam-like network.

See me, feel me, tweet me, show me …

A community needs common language (LOL), ritual (tweet me), and causes (poverty alleviation).

Right now, the obvious need is worker’s retraining ( for America to stay competitive).

Yet, it’s a chicken-and-the-egg cycle i.e. which industry should we be focusing on, and who will pick up the tab for work force training?

The growth of University of Phoenix and the likes shows a need for continuing education .

When IBM saw the writing on the wall, the Elephant learned to walk fast (and finally spun off its hardware segment).

Best of wishes to Blekko. It’s a vast Wild Wild Web out there. Google is taking its own medicine. That of the innovator’s dilemma. After “pageranking”, we will see stack-ranking of search engines. But then, it already knew. Google is moving to the cloud, to TV and to mobile O/S.

That’s what makes America competitive: up the value chain. Stay hungry, stay foolish, keep searching. Fear not.

 

Tang, Sanka and Google instant

Tang was well-known way back then, as the drink of choice for astronauts.

Sanka had been in every motel room, before the green de-caffeine (equivalent of conditioner that is coupled with shampoo) bags came to existence.

And now Google Instant, promised to be faster and more magical.

Can’t data mine faster than that.

The wisdom of crowd interacts with the wisdom of machine. IQ vs AI.

We were amazed at Luke’s drink (in Star Wars). Now we know why? The speed of everything has been quickened.

I prepared lunch for myself and my daughter today.

I found myself very impatient with the process: chopping, heating, eating and cleaning.

Would it be easier to eat out of  Instant Cup O Noodles? (which made the Noodle King richer than Burger King).

Nobody knows you are a dog on the internet. But you must be the top dog. Search engine and crawlers show SEO, be it the best or not.

Only the highest page-ranked items are displayed above-the-fold. With Linkedin Social endorsement, we have invented the online equivalent of “street cred” (the age of Lordship is back, albeit in new currency)

I remember browsing through a section of the library, just to see what’s placed close by.

Now with Google instant, I won’t get to do all that. It will “ping” right away displaying only the search term.

We are back to data silos, to our own “cubicle”. Hence the danger of isolation and the need for integration.

The Web gives us vast data pool, Google instant narrows it down. A personalized version of Google trend.

Ph.D. candidates are having a field day narrow down their thesis.

( Once you can articulate the problem and find no existing research done on the topic,  you are half way to the degree.)

I am glad for competition in Search and instant Search.

It’s tough enough having to deal with spam, and unsolicited mail (data deluge).

BTW, the NYT might stop to exist in physical form. It’s experiment on-line has been successful, so much that it threatens the print side.

The tipping point came when people bought more e version than hard-cover version.

Save a tree, save a buck , but not B&N.

No longer do we browse other books while shopping for a new release.

Save gas, save space and save time. Instant gratification. Boy oh boy, what am I going to do with my existing book collection?

Another “Tower” is down (referring to Tower Records, which went busted after MP3). I don’t think Goodwill will accept all the book donation in the future,

the same way it is inundated with tube TV‘s. We are witnessing  a near complete transition to digital, one which is overtaking our lives a zero and a 1 at a time.

My plea: be patient with yourself. And if you have to prepare lunch, try not to use the microwave. Not that it’s not fast, it’s just that with our current expectation, even microwave speed seems so slow in the age of Google Instant. Use those free minutes for a Tweet that might go viral.