Nobody is perfect.
Nobody can do everything.
Best advice?
From McDonald’s founder, Ray Kroc:
“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
Google founders loved their search engine.
Today’s Google just loves money.
Google is dead.
Via Gaston Roitberg.
If you read the news dispatch from EFE, the Spanish news agency, the sales of the iPad were lower than the iPhone ones.
Well this reporter and his editors must live in an imaginary world.
The buzz of the new iPad has been bigger and louder than any other Apple product ever.
Ask Microsoft.
Ask Google.
Ask Nokia.
Ask Nintendo.
Ask Sony.
They know better than the lousy EFE report.
A better and more factual account comes here:
“Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, originally projected first day iPad sales to between 250 to 300,000.
After spending some time at the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Saturday morning, that number was increaded to between 600 to 700,000.
These numbers are based on 730 customers being counted at that particular store, and compares to 350 at the same location for the iPhone 3G S launch, and 540 for the iPhone 3G.”
Good reality check: Just the facts baby!
Sales of Google’s Nexus One phone in the US have paled in comparison to the iPhone.
After 74 days, the Nexus One has sold an estimated 135,000 units, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. By that point in 2007, Apple announced it had sold a million iPhones.
A total flop.
Jonathan Stray checks for the Nieman Journalism Lab the real sources of the recent breaking-news story about the China/Google hacking case and finds that”
– Out of 121 unique stories, 13 (11 percent) contained some amount of original reporting. I counted a story as containing original reporting if it included at least an original quote. From there, things get fuzzy. Several reports, especially the more technical ones, also brought in information from obscure blogs. In some sense they didn’t publish anything new, but I can’t help feeling that these outlets were doing something worthwhile even so. Meanwhile, many newsrooms diligently called up the Chinese schools to hear exactly the same denial, which may not be adding much value.
- Only seven stories (six percent) were primarily based on original reporting. These were produced by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Tech News World, Bloomberg, Xinhua (China), and the Global Times (China).
- Of the 13 stories with original reporting, eight were produced by outlets that primarily publish on paper, four were produced by wire services, and one was produced by a primarily online outlet. For this story, the news really does come from newspapers.
So how are we going co cover real news without original reporting?
And who is going to pay for real reporters?
And real journalism?
Let’s get real.
An interesting contrarian view about Google.
Doc Sarls has a good question:
“Think of advertising as oil and Google as one big emirate. What happens when the oil runs out?”
The he quotes Ad Age:
“The number of people online who click display ads has dropped 50% in less than two years, and only 8% of Internet users account for 85% of all clicks…What’s more, the 8% of Internet users that compose a majority of clicks is also down by half from the last study, which found 16% are responsible for 80% of clicks.”
And he ends saying that “it’s an open question whether Google will make the same kind of money in a post-advertising marketplace. I’m betting they won’t.”
WOW!
When the CEO of Google says that very soon they will make more money with Mobile than with Internet, imagine a Mobile Tablet and you will understand why the Apple coming tablet could be a dramatic innovation.
Business are moving to Mobile.
Realtor, like Zillow and Sawbuck, are taking their listings to the iPhone.
If you use Realtor, you will be able to access to about 4 million listings across the United States that they say are updated every 15 minutes.
Realtor say the new app will allow home shoppers to search for open houses within a 20-mile radius, sorted by location or date. Users can take camera-phone photos of listings as they tour them, assign them star ratings, jot notes on the phone, and quickly post listings to their Twitter or Facebook pages–or e-mail them to friends, family and their buyer’s agent.
Many newspapers still think that the only strategy to save their classifieds is to move them to Internet.
Well, too late.
Move tham to Mobile.
That’s the future.
Tags: Apple Tablet, Classifieds, Facebook, Google, Real State. Moble, Sawbuck, The Realtor, Twitter, Zillow, iPhone, internet
The York Times’ David Pogue says no way.
And in today’s stock market Google is down.
Next!
We don’t have the tablets, but the tablet’s war is coming.
Google and HTC versus the Appple iSlate.
Competition is always good.
But this is a war for a non-existing market!
And today Google is launching in San Francisco its Nexus One phone, presented as the “iPhone killer.”
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