The Evolution of Paid Search and Why Google Won and Yahoo and Microsoft Lost
Google’s exponential growth and emergence as a technology juggernaut has been driven by one simple but incredibly successful business model : paid search advertising. Google appears invincible today because it dominates one of the largest and most lucrative web businesses - 0nline advertising via paid search. Google’s version of this - the Adwords program [...]
Left Brain vs Right Brain: The Kindle vs the iPad
The Apple iPad vs the Amazon Kindle debate rages on in the media and the blogosphere - with no end in sight. The iPad fans proclaim that the Kindle is dead : it is no match for the rich, interactive, tactile interface of the iPad - a superior, almost magical experience some call it. [...]
Could this be iPad’s Killer Application ?
In an earlier post earlier post I countered the view held by many that the iPad will kill the Kindle. I believe these two devices target different and overlapping market segments and can coexist.
However, I also believe that the iPad is a solution looking for the right problem to solve. If Apple can find the [...]
Top 10 Reasons Why the iPad will NOT Kill the Kindle
There is a post on TechCrunch today about the Top 10 Reasons The Apple iPad Will Put Amazon’s Kindle Out of Business
Certainly the iPad will give some competition to the Kindle - especially the $489 model - but put it out of business ? Highly unlikely. Here are the top 10 reasons why the iPad [...]
Apple Introduces the iPad - Revolutionary or Evolutionary ?
The last time there was so much hype about a tablet, was possibly when Moses came down the mountain with one made of stone ! Steve Jobs - who has almost attained the same legendary status in the tech world - officially announced the much-anticipated Apple Tablet today and it is called … the [...]
Education and Public Schools in America - Some Insights & What The US Can Learn From India
It is now widely acknowledged that America’s public school education system is broken and needs fixing. Numerous studies rank US school children well below other countries in science and math tests:
“The average science score of U.S. students lagged behind those in 16 of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a [...]
15 Facts You May Not Know About the Google China Incident
After reviewing articles from many sources in the media, I have compiled a list of certain facts and figures regarding the recent cyber attacks from China and the subsequent stunning announcement from Google. Some of these are surprisingly under-reported in the media so you may or may not know them. Here they are [...]
Google’s Stance Is Also a Warning about China
Google’s bombshell announcement yesterday about its “new approach” to China is still reverberating across the media and the blogosphere. Everyone is trying to put this in perspective, assessing its impact and figuring out Google’s true motivations and rationale for this drastic action. However, most blogs and analysis focused on two important aspects of [...]
Google’s Brave New Stand Against China After Unprecedented Chinese Cyber Attack
In what will surely be remembered as a pivotal and defining moment in Internet history, Google today took a brave stand against China which has so far dictated how Google conducts business in that country.
In a post on their blog titled “A New Approach To China”, Google stated that it had detected an [...]
Twitter Changes Its Question - Finally (many months after I suggested it !)
“Isn’t is time Twitter changed their tagline “What are you doing? ” to something that reflects what most tweets are about ?”
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Current books:
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman
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The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save O by Shankar Vedantam
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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
Recent books:
- The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man by Jeffrey Satinover
- Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Quantum Leaps by Jeremy Bernstein
- 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
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