Oh my Google!

Recently among speculation of a release of a the new Google phone and other clever new products, such as a new powerpoint like product in their Google doc lineup.




Recently, BusinessWeek ran an article on the growing giant. Is Google to Powerful April 9, 2007. The article discussed Googlezon spawned from the creation of the merger of both GOOGLE and AMAZON.com. This is also based on EPIC 2014 "a faux documentary posted to the Web in late 2004 by young journalists Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan."

What this all describes is a monolith of a company that has been silently and with a smile on their face growing very large in scope and purpose. Last week Google announced its recent acquisition of DoubleClick another rival online advertising company. This has caused great concern from the others out there because this now offers Google a large share of the market.

A majority of all online searches are being routed through the Google servers and they do their best to keep these statistics to use as competitive advantage. However, with growing concerns over size it is also brings some concern over privacy. Google is frightfully getting close to the edge of the cliff that many other large companies have approached and then fallen off the cliff. It's this your too big and now your the enemy. No one likes things to be to big or to controlling. No matter how much Google does good it's company will begin this slippery slope down to "evil" status.

The enigma currently with Google is what's its business. Google seems to be diversifying over several technology markets, and by doing so is spreading itself very thin. By branding all new products with the Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Search, Google Adsense, etc. They are creating a culture of Googlemania.

It will be interesting to see where we go next from here. As Google continues to grow and its long arm reaches gets bigger that they take great care and control over its large company.

Cited from: BussinessWeek.com

Digg Scam: Investigative Reporting PICS

I hope this information can be use to help make Digg stronger and better!

So after reading a few articles on the digg.com conspiracy I decided to do a little investigative reporting. I found a source that was willing to send me some pics and and information about an unnamed website. This site apparently charges money to help promote "Submitted" websites to help promote them on the Digg website.

Here is a screen shot of their main login page:



Here is a shot send to me looking at the user page giving them instructions on how to use the service.



Here is a final shot of the verification that the stories had been dugg by the appropriate user.



IRONY. The irony of the whole situation is that my friend indicated that on average they were receiving a bout 6 - 8 new articles a day and were getting them verified within 24 - 48 hrs.

So looking at that it would be like.

6 stories a day / 3 per .50 = 2 x .5 = $1.00 a day

A DOLLAR A DAY! For that amount of money it would take approximately almost month to get the minimum $20 dollars needed to with withdraw your money. So who is making out like a bandit... um its easy to see.

Most likely users will keep getting banned, blocked, or modded from Digg and will never see a penny from this "company"

So I hope Digg can fix their algorithm to account for the ever changing "attacks".

The Dude Abides. Digg on!

Beward the Wii & PS3 Auction Wars

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With the release of either console coming this week, we have noticed a trend with the market that can be examined from the latest release of the Xbox 360 to previous consoles. As the shortages were finally realized and people become increasingly hostile and bitter the auction wars began.

As soon as consoles were posted for sale on Ebay and other popular auction sites as well as private message boards the flames began. People who did not get their favorite console for personal enjoyment were pissed off. Not just upset, I mean down right “I hate this crap and want to do something about it”. So it began, they would flame the forums and raise the auction prices with phony bids to express their displeasure. They were especially hostile to the ones who got 3+ consoles and were raking in thousands of dollars from people just because they “knew the system” or “knew a guy, who knew a guy, at Best Buy.”

So I predict we will have much of the same, as we have previously seen with the release of the Wii across the pond in Japan. Unless stricter regulation is done to limit and create a sense of fairness this is going to be a rough week with the release of BOTH the Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation 3.

Along that note I was lucky to receive a pre-order, but will NOT be selling it no matter how much they go for. I hope others do the same and avoid the greed.

The dude abides.

Conspiracy Theory 5324.05

This comes on the wake of the news that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. had filed suit against Lik-Sang.com claiming that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers.

Ok, so deep within this dismay I can detect a hint of what’s brewing under the surface. With all this information coming on the eve of the launch of both the new Sony Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii one cannot help but be at least a bit skeptical that Sony may have used it keen business sense to take down one of the largest Nintendo Wii presale sites (at least a main one continuously taking preorders), and boosted interest in the PS3 by keeping its name in the media. So in actuality this is just a keen ploy to boost the PS3 sales and diminish the impact the impending release of the Nintendo Wii may have on the PS3.

So be it what it may this is a win-win for Sony because even if they get an injunction to least a few week it will be enough time to succumb to the onslaught of orders for PS3’s.

Bah, it just feels like dirty politics to me.

The dude abides.