Google’s Fault, Dammit!

I just finished reading an article; mostly a rant; that made a pretty valid point, (in the midst of the rant).

When Google declared that its mission is to “organize the world’s information,” it didn’t take into account that its very existence would dramatically increase the amount of information in the world and make it harder for us to find what we need online.

Now, this could very well be argued right along side the “chicken & egg” debate.. and really, if Google didn’t exist.. wait, I think I just caused a spontaneous cosmic ripple in the Universe with that mere thought… but anyway..

If Google didn’t exist, would the amount of information on the Net be any less? hmm.. (think I’ll have eggs for breakfast).

Some people say/write things without thinking them all the way through. Me? I might think too much; but it gives me words to put on this page, you’re reading. (heh.. there’s method to my madness).

I don’t think we can seriously blame Google for the amount of crap on the Net. I mean, crap is crap and proliferates more crap; which causes us to wipe our mouths and flush our brains.. get up and say “ahhh..”. BUT, if we wanna just keep things simple and stay in suit with pointing the proverbial finger then .. YEAH! Google did it!!

..go figure, huh?

Facebook Gets Bitch Slapped

“You MY Bitch!” is basically what Zuckerberg and crew were told by their friends, after their announcement to change their TOS.

Took all of 36 hours for ZuckerMeister to recant the whole shpeel after gettin’ his asterik kicked all over the blogosphere. I think it took ‘em like a month to get their head outta their ads when they launched Beacon.

Seems the ambiguity of Internet law; and the blissful lack there of; has risen again. Gotta love it.

Free means Free, dammit!

Time to Facebook the Tweets

This passed Sunday, it seems Facebook ticked off a couple of people by stiffening its TOS. Some seem to be interpreting it as them saying, “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.“

Maybe a bit of a harsh reality to some, but ya gotta keep the lights on… and when you tout 6.6 billion “friendships” being made, that’s a pretty big light bill.

Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is trying to wade off the backlash on his blog. Yet, unless him and his crew can come up with some pretty innovative revenue models; he might be turned into a reluctant Ad Madame. Good luck with that, Mark; glad I’m not you.

On the other side of the street, however, Twitter’s founder (Kevin Thau) isn’t pulling any punches regarding where he wants to go with his Tweets.

“We can measure the tweets,” he says. “We’re trying to figure out what
are the appropriate metrics around engagement and how to convey those.”

With cell phone tweets having grown a whopping 1000% over the last year, Thau can’t be oblivous to the businesses salivating over the possibilities of all that data. According to Forrester Research, there’s definitely demand.

All in all, as more and more of the free services mature, we find ourselves in the same place as we did with Xoom and MP3.com; where reality starts to set in and the more popular they get the more bills they incur along with seed capital investors breathing down the necks of young executives about, “Where’s my money, biotch!?!!”

What to do… what to do…?