A fair point. That one is a blind spot for me because I do not use the social aspects of the platform.
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Google still offers utility but their dominance will be challenged by niche players (in aggregate) over the coming years.
I do not put a value judgement on their behavior. I merely comment on the opportunities presented when they become too big to innovate from the bottom.
That is not organized information as we were lead to believe.
> Google is testing a new feature that will surface Instagram and TikTok videos in their own dedicated carousel in the Google app for mobile devices — a move that could help the company retain users in search of social video entertainment from fully leaving Google’s platform.
In short, it appears they scrape and display content from sites they don't own in an effort to keep people on their platform. This is anti-competitive, and any smaller player engaged in similar behavior would have the door shot on their fingers.
Google use help people find their way to interesting places. Now they seem more and more interested in keeping them in a walled garden.
Google was never able to build or buy a social platform to build their walled garden higher.
Instead they reach their tentacles over the other walled gardens and snatch the content.
Google is a shell whose moat is drying up day by day.
On a smaller scale you can probably just have cron jobs run these and email/sms you when things fall down.
Forgot to add -- generally though in production you will detect very early on when your code starts crashing or gets rejection rates.
In my day job we generally know when FB/Apple/Google are down/degraded before the larger internet because of scale and integration with their payments and our monitoring.
direct ad sales and "reads" (old school way of doing it)
run pre and mid-roll in the content (again, already done)
paid live-streams with ticket sales. Paul Richards from Stream Geeks wrote a book on this.
Merch
Paid newsletters / content which is marketed in the show.
Everything exists -- lots of value in helping creators stitch it all together.
I see a similar opportunity how web devs helped grow the e-commerce for small companies, we will see the same growth helping creators stand on their own.
This is my focus next year.
Placing many small bets that niche/vertical search will make this space much more interesting.
The interesting part is where content creators, personalities, etc own their own rails. They don't need a massive audience to run their own show. Even if I only push 10-20 TB / month that is enough to make a lifestyle "+" business.
That is my hypothesis, and 2021 looks like a good time to test it.
(Edit - I can't grammar, apparently)
Now you have two problems.
The vendor, and the vendor's vendor, who is (cloud provider). There will be resource limits, VPC peering limits (1g, 10G , 100G), and a myriad of other things that subtly change how deals are done and the donuts are made.
Then, when clients are big enough, these vendors quickly begin to offer bespoke solutions which, again, subtly change how they operate and do business.
This creates friction at all levels because we now have classical bespoke enterprise solutions inside "uniformed" scalable cloud solutions.
We might have just as well stayed in place and expanded in our own data center, run it ourselves in the compute cloud, or in some smaller cases, just buy the company we wanted to do business with.
This level of enterprise customer is a tough nut to crack because of the infrastructure monolith that lives inside.
Perhaps they might spend the money for professional services or something in their private cloud, but that money is peanuts compared to the valued created by the free software.
Have a look at vmix [1]. That is broadcast production, and they offer a service called VMIX call [2].
There is a limit up to 8 callers in the Pro version.
[1] - https://www.vmix.com
Such is the churn and iteration to challenge x86. I welcome it.
[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/21/scaleway_arm64_cloud_...
linux vm/dedicated (bare metal) server depending on the compute power I need
docker. plain docker. no kubernetes django htmx (the successor to intercoolerjs) postgresql traefik pycharm as my IDE of choice Scaleway, Hetzner, or DigitalOcean for hosting.
However, I now have some enterprise customers who want SSO. I will need to figure out how Keycloak fits in.
No remote storage like s3 No queues/streaming like kafka or rabbitmq (I use postgres for that)
Meanwhile legitimate businesses suffer.
Meanwhile users suffer.
Google has one view on the world of content -- namely "one big index to rule them all" and "remove humans at every step of the way"
This has made the behemoth blind to their next existential threat -- the real threat to their search dominance will not come from Bing, or Baidu, or another other big-ish play.
The threat is on the bottom. In the niches. In curation.
Curation from enthusiasts and subject matter experts who will run their own micro search engines.
Just as we look at "influencers" for what software to run, makeup to buy, and books to read -- I think one day we might like to use Paul G's search engine on startups and entrepreneurship.
Or perhaps a hyper-local search engine run by a consortium of small business owners and civic-minded people?
I wonder though how many companies will renege or are simply blustering in an effort to extract concessions from California?
all the standard linkedin best practices to start.
load up your profile with all the buzzwords. Your CV is nothing but keyword stuffing into a search ending.
Write the title/headline for the job you want, no the one you have.
profile and summary should include ANYTHING you have done that supports the story claimed in the headline above.
side projects.
github repos
student projects
that flask app to help mom track birthdays
anything that has a story.
then pay the money (yes, $50 / month is a sacrifice but worth the pain) and that give you the ability to scale your reach and hitup all the recruiters.
get them on a call (the good ones will give you 15-20 minutes) and have the conversation.
Ask them about the market. Salaries, positions they are seeing.
They want to meet you as much as you want to meet them.
The insight is that I make their job easier by having the right resources and presentation in place.
This space is starting to heat up, and I would like to take the best open-source projects as well as the paid versions out there (dacast, wowza, etc) and do a full-on comparison.
I'm in the market for this software (and I'm not shy of paying).
If I run a search engine which potentially links real human eyes back to you, then should I pay the "ad" toll as well?
I don't believe so.
I do believe there is an agreeable middle-ground, but Google walked away from that conversation years ago.
I go through recruiters both for contract and full-time positions.