Yahoo!: fast follower? Hmm.

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Oct 102008
 
Yahoo!

Yahoo!: What does fast mean?

When I worked at Yahoo! during the bubble burst of 2002/3, there was much made of the outward positioning of the company as an innovator. Privately, however, key personnel would declare that, while Yahoo! was crammed with innovation (blah, blah… but defensible then), it was just as valuable to be a fast follower.

I agree.

So when I read this story over on ClickZ just now I had to go to dictionary.com and check out the definition of ‘fast’. Turns out ‘fast’ can also mean “…held or caught firmly, so as to be unable to escape or be extricated.”

I wonder if that’s what they meant… It’s certainly how they’ve looked to me this past year or two.

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I didn’t realise the google phone was THAT heavy

 mobile, sidelines  3 Responses »
Oct 072008
 

I noticed a review last night of the T-Mobile G1, the first Google Android phone, in online magazine iGIZMO. I was alarmed when clicking on the ‘details’ icon (the little red “i” bottom left) to learn that the G1 is even more hefty that at first I’d thought… according to the reviewer it weighs 1.58kg. Makes my old XDA Exec look positively lean and mean.

Shurely shome mishtake?

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The dust settles, dimming Chrome’s lustre

 Cloud Computing, web 3.0  1 Response »
Oct 022008
 

Over on eConsultancy, blogger Drama 2.0 has posted an interesting look at Google’s much-heralded new browser, Chrome, and pointing to the disappointment that seems almost palpable for its lack of ‘points of difference’.

Chrome: last amongst equals?

Chrome: last amongst equals?

I’ve used Chrome a bit – and I note that some Sandlines readers do, too – and somewhat more than the average figure shown in Drama 2.0′s report (which were 0.85% trending down to 0.77%).

But what does it offer that’s different? Currently, nothing dramatic – in fact, it misses a lot of the plugins that make Firefox my browser of choice (CoolIris, Delicious integration…).

There are some small nice-to-haves, but it feels more like a marker (some might say a line in the sand!) than a fully fledged competitive offering.

One thing seems sure: the enthusiastic “Chrome will take over the world” response to its initial (high) take up looks premature. Once again, substance will have to out over hype.

What I was hoping for was something to live up to the claim that Chrome would rethink the way we use the internet. It was going to unleash a new ability to support cloud computing. It was the browser built for the multiplex cinema experience the internet can be in today’s Web 2.0/tomorrow’s Web 3.0 world, rather than the hushed libraries of Web 1.0.

Maybe I’ve got the wrong prescription contact lenses, ’cause I can’t see it in the Chrome 1.0.

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