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itswindyon Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

That's the risk every entrepreneur takes. Next time you need a job you have have a 10 year 'gap' in your resume.

Other than founding Google, their supposedly big ideas are just on gambling shareholder's money and make more money via Google in suspicious way. Search still makes 97% of their money, Android was * from others and market share is being lost to Microsoft.

itswindyon Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.

Minus 3 for telling the truth? Shows why Google is in such pathetic shape, Google employees spend all day doing nothing.

itswindyon Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.

Interesting, in light of Google's real name policy.

FB 1 - G =0 for now?

itswindyon Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.

Maybe but they'll get promotion within facebook. Lots of users and they can always split if FB goes under.

itswindyon Guy builds nightvision drone to hunt feral pigs

Guy builds nightvision drone to hunt feral pigs

Federal government shows up to help ;)

itswindyon Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor

"With the tablet, Amazon is a follower. That’s never as good." Unless you sell it for half a price is good enough for most people.

itswindyon Editorial: Facebook’s new sharing is anything but ‘frictionless’

Why so many (negative about) FB stories in front? I guess since Google can't Pandafi Facebook, copy their model and drive them out of business or manually give them a penalty they do this. Even monopolies have their limits apparently.

Google employees: Why not go and add a few more dozen ads on pages, there's still more room. Make Larry happy!

itswindyon Google+ Approaching 50 Million Users

I want to join just so I can have Scoble on my circles!! Add him, take a screenshot, print it and then show it to kids on the neighborhood. Now that's a status symbol

;)

itswindyon Google+ Approaching 50 Million Users

I almost joined, by accident. If you are signed in Gmail or adsense and go there all it takes a button to click.

Posting on it and is a different story, I'm sure.

itswindyon All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook...

"All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook..."

Ummmm...not mine. I use it sometimes but total posts under a dozen. Google knows way more than FB about me but that's changing little by little.

itswindyon Groupon Restates Revenue, Revenue Fell In Half, COO Exits

He probably sold to (supposedly) sophisticated investors that thought they'd scam retail investors later on.

itswindyon Groupon Restates Revenue, Revenue Fell In Half, COO Exits

I smelled a rat, especially when they started to open offices in places like Bulgaria just for the hype.

itswindyon I was once a Facebook fool

Nasty business so watch your back

itswindyon Google's Competitors Falsely Claim Google Dominates Because It Was 'First'

For those that didn't notice, this is from Larry and Sergey's original PageRank paper http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html , before Eric Schmidt showed up as the "adult." Google is now the largest advertiser on earth.

I agree 100% with them here!

itswindyon Google's Competitors Falsely Claim Google Dominates Because It Was 'First'

That's besides the point, even if the writer is 112% correct. What you do with the power you have now, no matter how you got it matters. But advertising based search engines are biased, they will want you to click on ads and will favor their partners (brands.)

Larry and Sergey were right, it's a shame they fell for a few $billion more:

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."

"But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant effect on the market. Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results."

itswindyon Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

Eric Schmidt: I am not a cook.

So who cooks the algo Eric?

itswindyon Google.com Has An Unmissable Ad Drawing Users To Google+

They want to index it, but in using that info, it typically sends the user to other sites.

Once upon a time maybe. Now they send people to ads mostly, and Google content.

itswindyon Google.com Has An Unmissable Ad Drawing Users To Google+

Larry Page has vision and conviction. Exactly what Google has lacked in many ways for a long time.

To steal people's property (Books), sell illegal drug ads, make ads barely distinguishable from content, push content way down with not relevant content but that is Google's, screw Skyhook illegally...etc. Yeah, vision. Watch for people to fight back.

Larry is lucky he isn't in jail http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392062,00.asp

itswindyon Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town

That's not really something that helps Google. They want everyone there, not just self-proclaimed 'early adopters.'

itswindyon Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town

Funny, someone took a point. Must be a new Googler still going through their employee manual:)

From Eric Schmidt: " And the notion of strong identity was never invented in the Internet. Many people worked on it - I worked on it as a scientist 20 years ago, and it’s a hard problem. So if we knew that it was a real person, then we could sort of hold them accountable, we could check them, we could give them things, we could you know bill them, you know we could have credit cards and so forth and so on, there are all sorts of reasons.... So the solution of course that we’ve come up with is called Google+, which is in essentially early beta, and it looks like it’s doing very well so far. It essentially provides an identity service with a link structure around your friends, similar to what I just described...."

itswindyon Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

Very few care anyway and those that know will forget. There's no such as independent back there to begin with. Even here NBC will probably back down on a story after a call from GE that may have a pending deal with X corp.

itswindyon Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town

G+ just doesn't have it.

They sure do. For an identity service that is. This is not social, it's a honeypot to get your information, or the information Google still doesn't have.

itswindyon Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing

Search usefulness will be inversely correlated with Google's earnings, just ask Sergey and Larry, read their original paper. I hear through the grapevine that Instant search leads people towards searches with ADS, or more expensive ads. Let's not talk about personalization or how some results make ads better. Coincidences? Uh huh. $40 Billion in revenue this year as search share stays flat.

itswindyon IPad iOS 5 vs Windows 8 Slate [video]

Thanks! Just read read Engadget and it's amazing how many people agreed with that. Shows desktops are not going anywhere for a long time. Maybe MS will add a 'module' so it's a full desktop when needed? If you want to do any meaningful work a desktop is a must.

And let's face it, with all their faults Windows works pretty good. It ain't easy to make an OS that works with all printers.....scanners and everywhere in the world. My desktop is 4 years old and works perfectly.

itswindyon Home-made bombs are being sent to physicists in Mexico

I think he was referring to cost of life

Actually to the fact that it's a mess of a country, at least right now. people being killed left and right, and is almost a failed state. Not that Mexican parents weep less for their kids or anything like that.

itswindyon The Web's Walking Dead: AOL & Yahoo

Dead in the tech kinda of a way: no expected major hits, no 20% growth a year, just milking what they have now.

itswindyon Home-made bombs are being sent to physicists in Mexico

Maybe, but life is cheaper in Mexico and the police have bigger fish to fry, making the bombers more dangerous and less likely to got caught.

itswindyon IPad iOS 5 vs Windows 8 Slate [video]

I have yet to read a negative review of this but then it's coming sometime next year. Anyway, competition is good and MS is usually good at fighting in the trenches for years, so you can never rule them out. .

MS also makes or will make money each time an Android phone is sold

itswindyon Google Chrome disables search engine selection in Russia

is this Larry or Sergey?

And when are you mass-penalizing travel sites not to compete with yours?

itswindyon Google Flight Search

Whaaaat? Don't you know thew world is a better place if Google gets that $30 per credit card instead of organic search? Or now travel money, G offers, local etc.