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POPSUser Comments Comment about a GigaOM article on Google's new WAVE collaboration product.
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POPSGoogle CEO: Crisis Over? I hope he's right, but when I read this I immediately thought of this picture below. Is that too big of a leap to make?
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POPS Google's Power Play
Google’s higher calling comes directly from co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both ardent environmentalists. But it’s made real by the same moxie that has driven Google to create digital editions of 7 million books, with scant concern for copyright issues, and to amass satellite images of almost all of the earth’s nooks and crannies. “We only hire people who really, genuinely believe that big change is possible and the right thing to do,” says Erik Teetzel, a 34-year-old Google engineer who heads a team of researchers looking for ways to produce cheap renewable energy. Still, now doesn’t seem like an ideal time for Google to be making such an ambitious move. Oil prices are down, eradicating much of the demand for alternatives to fossil fuels. A global economic downturn means many companies now consider green technology a luxury they can’t afford. Google has never been very successful at diversifying its business; 97 percent of its revenue still comes from online ads.
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POPSGoogle Getting in on the Bailout? Not quite. And opening an office in Reston doesn't a) qualify one as a contractor, or b) ensure that the Reston office will be the money making arm of the operation while its Googling cousins on K-street work the levers of power for the company. A more likely reason why Google is opening up an outpost in Virginia: from a tax perspective, it's much cheaper to be there than in D.C. Which is why many contractors are located in that "string of office parks" as well.
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POPSGoogle Is My Co-Pilot Google' s simple, useful applications are almost impossible to resist: are we giving them too much information about ourselves in return?
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POPSObama Conducts First Presser as President-Elect This is from Obama's temporary site, Change.gov . It's a site to release news about the transition and progress toward building a cabinet. It'll probably give you an idea of how WhiteHouse.gov will look under President Obama. The use of Youtube is interesting, since you can obviously go ahead and post these videos anywhere, making them a lot more user-friendly than videos on Bush's site. He may regret it though, since he makes a joke at Nancy Reagan's expense; "I have spoken to all of them who are living -- I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan moment, doing any seances..." That one may turn up on a website or two with some forced outrage. Still, I suppose anyone with TiVo could upload a cable news version, but this just makes it that much easier. I guess we can consider this one a test run.
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POPSWhat a big company! What a big endorsement! Guess I am behind the times. I had no idea that Eric Schmidt endorsed Obama. Guess some big companies along with a great military man like Colonel Powell doesn't think Obama is a socialist. Hmmm These are men who love their country and really know how to use their whole brain power. Perhaps we should pay attention.
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POPSGoogle Boss Supports Obama!
There were a few creeps here on this forum, Republican smear campaign trolls, who had not one real issues to discuss but just full of insults, rudeness, false smears, hot-air empty issues, etc. But one of these wannabe thugs even tried to make intimidation (like Republicans often do to voters in poor and minority districts) -- saying he was "making a list," he was going to find out where all these "commie" Obama supporters lived; and they were going to "be sorry." But now, I thought, wow! The Google boss is on Obama's side. He could easily set going some sort of spider or bot seach and actually come up with a real list of these empty-headed, non-issue, smear campaign airheads. Maybe they could be blocked from using Google? That would be could. Maybe there license to use the whole Internet could be revoked. Maybe they could be forced to reread all their posts during the upcoming years of the Obama presidency? Oh well...alas... I guess not. That would be undemocratic.
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POPSGoogle: Cookies Are Complicated Google has a growing tendency to make flashy announcements that draw press and then let their ideas stagnate and disappear. Looks like they may be doing the same with an element of their search privacy solution.
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POPSGoogle Wants $100 billion -- In Revenue This is an unbelievably ambitious goal, and would make Google the biggest company in the world. But whether or not it's possible, it's certainly the kind of talk that drives the company's share price higher...hence Blodget's $2000/share talk.
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