I have a suspicion Google indexes webpages all night while we are asleep. And the word Google rhymes with the word owl. So if Google were to get a bird symbol like Twitter does, I think it would have to get an owl. That is kind of unflattering because it should get something that denotes speed, like eagle, now that is another bird word that rhymes with Google.
Google should not try and become Twitter, it can not become Twitter. But then it is not true Twitter does real time search better. Twitter trending topics is not my idea of real time search. Me personally I have little interest in real time search. I seem to be more interested in the Twitter archives. And there the Twitter search engine is outright dysfunctional. I thought I was bookmarking stuff, and then I do a search on my name and the topic and nothing shows. That has happened to me half a dozen times just these past two days. I have had to go dig into a friend's Facebook wall to search for a tweet that I knew I had posted on his wall weeks ago to go fetch it. That was when I missed Google.
Maybe Google should let Twitter have the Twitter trending topics, and make use of the already available Twitter API, or whatever else you need, to become the choice search engine for the vast Twitter archives. How many different ways can you let me explore the Twitter archives? That's what I am asking.
And to think Android is set to have a big buzz for the rest of this year. Feels to me like this blog is about to ride a wave. Give me some traffic, Donut!
1995 was the biggest year for Windows. It made world headline news. It knocked off Middle East peace from the top spot. That big. Is this year to be the same year for Android? Or is this more like what 1992 was for Windows, big but not the peak? It is hard to tell right now. For one, we are almost half way through 2009 already. Two, there is so much room for innovation and growth still with Android. It has only barely begun to move beyond smartphones to smart laptops. I have a feeling the real Android action is not going to be on smartphones, big as it is going to be, and already has been. The bigger action will be on the bigger rectangle.
Right now if I had to guess I would say, Windows 95, Android 10, or even Android 11, Android 12.
Android Cupcake
Android Donut
Android E________
Android Fruitcake
Android Granola/Grapes
Android Haluwa
Android Icecream
Android Jamun
Android Kabab
Android Lalmohan
Android Mithai
Android Naan
Android Oatmeal
Android Pie (if it is a clunky version, we call it Android Potato)
I don't know about you, but I think Android has a long way to go. But even under the best of circumstances Android can not expect a Windows like 90% market share. I foresee a healthy market.
In The News Cupcake party: Android 1.5 update coming to T-Mobile G1 owners ...CNET NewsThe update will be delivered over the air in random batches over the next several weeks, and T-Mobile expects to reach all G1 customers by the end of May. ...... user interface improvements, better performance, as well as new features, such as an onscreen full QWERTY keyboard, video recording and playback, and stereo Bluetooth support.
Google's Android Gets A CupcakeForbes more features and functionality to handsets ..... easy video uploads to YouTube and live data feeds. ...... more sophisticated background images and icons and a browser that can display more complex Web pages. ...... bond over video clips ..... BlackBerry maker Research In Motion ( RIMM - news - people ) recently amended its operating system to support touchscreens and faster browsing. Rivals including Apple ( AAPL - news - people ), Palm ( PALM - news - people ) and Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) are all working on their own software updates or new releases. ........ speech recognition tools and live folders, leap-frog the competition. Others, like the virtual keyboard, are catch-up moves. ...... Cupcake will support a range of phone designs, greatly expanding the market for Android handsets. ...... Talukdar wants tools that help apps communicate with Web sites like Facebook. ........ miscommunication and delays. ...... Backward compatibility issues ....... Google already has a 2.0 version of Android in the works, perhaps to support gadgets larger than phones, like notebooks and netbooks. The code name? Donut. Just as sweet but hopefully more substantial.
What do you want from the next Android device?CNET News the guts of the phone, the actual Android operating system. ..... on-screen landscape keyboard, video recording, stereo Bluetooth, updated Webkit browser, and UI improvements. ...... Native Microsoft Exchange support would be a good start as well as Flash support. G1 users have also complained about the inability to save apps to SD cards and limited internal memory. ...... Android 2.0 (code-named Donut) is already attracting buzz, though we know very little about it except that it will support WVGA and QVGA screen resolutions.
Here's Why Your G1 Android Phone Hasn't Updated To Cupcake 1.5 YetInformationWeek The blogosphere has been buzzing about Cupcake since November 2008. Donut Android build in the works | Google Android BlogJust when you thought that you had your feel of Android firmware-related bakery ...... There has been no word on what is in Donut ..... Android Framework Engineer Dianne Hackborn added that a detailed roadmap and feature list on Donut is not yet available due to concerns about “implied commitments that people are then going to base device schedules around when we are not confident enough about them.” Samsung Bigfoot & Spico Android smartphones with OS 2.0 “Donut”?a 3-megapixel autofocus camera, accelerometer, digital compass and 100MB of onboard storage Homer Simpson Approves of Google Android 2.0 "Donut"seems that the Android development team at Google has sugary baked goods on the brain ...... lines of code. Mmmm… delicious code… Very little is known about Android 2.0 Donut ...... I wonder what the next in the Android line of releases will bring? Macaroons? Brownies? Macadamia and white chocolate cookies? How about a five-minute chocolate cake? Google Android 2.0 dubbed Donut DetailsSo it seems you can have your Cupcake and eat it as a Donut will follow. Stunning Growth (900%) Predicted for Androidcompared to a predicted growth for iPhone sales of less than 80% which suggests that Android-based handsets could be a major player in the smartphone market in the next few years. ...... Interest in Android phones from a variety of sources including operators, phone vendors, phone developers and consumers. ....... Popularity of Google services including Google’s mobile search functions, cloud services and application support. ....... Android’s open-source format. More and more people are interested in seeing mobile phones opened up. ....... Increased variety of handset styles and choice among carriers will naturally increase sales. ........ Since Android is starting with a low user base, the overall industry growth could mean a high level of growth for this particular type of smartphone. ...... more than ten million Android-based handsets could be sold before the end of the year. ....... this is the year for Google Android growth. Android 2.0 aka "Donut" coming Q3 on Samsung Spica & Bigfoot Donut is the just the treat the mobile manufacturers have been waiting for and first out the gates will be Samsung who'll bring us the Spica and Bigfoot handsets most likely on T-Mobile ....... 3.0" WQVGA screens, 3-megapixel cameras, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, GPS, digital compasses and accelerometers Android Cupcake is Now in a DonutGoogle Android Phone News - GAB the most active and bleeding edge Android codebase after Donut is completed.
To those who can't read between the lines, Android is Google doing operating system. It does not have to compete with Windows. It is betting on the machine getting lean and mean. The PC is clunky.
For Office, you got Google Docs. That's word processing, spreadsheets, presentations right from your Gmail account. Check out how it is so completely online. It did not attempt to compete with Office on the desktop. No need if you can look ahead. The Office is in the rearview mirror. (David Gelernter: Manifesto)
Cupcake, Donut, Eclair? That is how they name hurricanes: alphabetically.
But then the traffic is two way. Wolfram Alpha is no Google killer, but it promises to be a niche king, and next thing you know Google felt the need for a revamp. Yahoo and Microsoft started to smell blood. Yahoo has come out saying it wants to "kill those 10 blue lines." (Google Is Working On Search)
How Eminem's Marketing Team Is Using Twitter to Build Buzz By using Twitter to dispense short, often disturbing thoughts and links to multimedia components revolving around a mental institution, they've helped make the album the most highly anticipated hip-hop release of the year -- and set it up for a sequel in the second half of 2009. ....... Some of the tweets are behind-the-scenes updates leading up to the album's release tomorrow ("They are still editing my video") while others are seemingly non-sequitur paranoia ("There's no place to hide ..."), complete with links to images that suggest Eminem is in a mental hospital and/or rehab facility called Pompsomp Hills. ....... Other tweets have included a link to the album's cover, a mosaic of pills that form an image of Eminem's face; a screenshot of his upcoming paid iPhone and iPod Touch game set in Pompsomp Hills; a link to a blood-splattered video for his single "3 A.M." that's set in the fictional clinic; and a link to an interactive web experience that's set there as well. That a simple Google search reveals a just-amateur-enough-to-look-real website for Pompsomp Hills makes the narrative details even more discomforting for fans familiar with Eminem's recent real-life troubles with prescription drugs, which put him in rehab and led to his hospitalization for pneumonia in early 2008, as he recently revealed in a Vibe cover story. Omelet, a branding, advertising and entertainment agency based in Los Angeles, helped develop the Pompsomp Hills website, along with other facets of the nontraditional push. ...... The entirety of "Relapse" was leaked onto the web last week, and in it the rapper reportedly describes his problems in both blunt terms and twisted fantasies, bringing life, marketing and product full circle. ....... a trail of breadcrumbs to the album ....... Eminem.com reached 113,868 unique visitors during April, while the most popular of his tweets -- which linked to Therelapse.com on May 7 -- reached at least 41,704 people within just one week ....... Eminem was the most-talked-about artist on Twitter last week, the week before the album's release. ...... one of Eminem's fictional characters, Stan -- a dangerously obsessive fan -- has, in the web lexicon, morphed into lowercase slang for a diehard yet non-violent admirer. ........ "Twitter is, in a way, the world of 'stans' who now have access to artists" ......... helped him build up mystery around the record ....... The 'Relapse' campaign is very similar to how we would break out a major movie ........ skewer a number of women pop stars and make lewd references to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ..... Twitter can be just as effective at drawing out mystery and building anticipation as it is at making bands and brands more accessible.
I admit, it was going to be a marketing effort for me. Read a bunch of New York Times and Wall Street Journal blogs, and leave one liner comments for each blog post. Of course my comment would have a signature, this blog's web address. Looks like the moderators those places have been weeding out my comments.
Then I am like old media does not get it. How about new media? The Huffington Post, Mashable, TechCrunch. Huff lets you sign in with your Facebook account, and Mashable does Disqus. But then reading numerous posts on Huff, Mashable and TechCrunch to hit 1,000 page hits a day can feel mechanical. Reading and responding to tweets does not feel mechanical, takes less time, and is more direct. It is one on one. Instead of hoping for people to show up in the comments sections of big name sites and maybe click on that link, that is iffy. Why not go straight to the people? Kick out the middle man?
Now I feel I already have the solution and I was looking for far and wide. I have over 1,700 followers on Twitter and counting. (What Just Happened?)
I want this blog to hit 1,000 page hits a day. That would be 30,000 page hits a month. Mark Penn says at 100,000 page hits a month, a blogger starts making 75K a yar. That is decent income. I have a feeling there is a takeoff point. I am guessing once you hit 2,000 page hits a day, it then takes off. Word of mouth kicks in and then you can focus more on content creation and less on marketing.
For now I want 1,000 page hits a day. And I want to focus on my Twitter followers for marketing. If I could get to know 1,000 of my followers on Twitter, maybe I could hope for somewhere between 500 and 1,000 page hits a day just from that. Read and respond to their tweets, get to know people.
The economy is in a bad shape. Banks are not lending like they used to. Investors are cranky. Venture capitalists are nervous. The unemployment rate is high and going higher. If you have a tech startup in mind, is this a time to lay low? Or is this precisely the time to barge forth?
I am going to argue now rather than two years earlier is the right time to embark on a truly ambitious company. Microsoft got launched during the stagflation of the late 70s, as did Apple, and Oracle. Companies launched during the 30s went on to define an era. This is good time. All you need is fire in your belly. Only don't let angels and investors blackmail you.
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