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Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature
The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. Today, we get to add Google's chapter to " Will One Company Dominate the Cloud " introspective series and take a glimpse of the silent revolution from "index" to "be" that is transforming the company and it's products to the default way to engage the Internet. As fate has it, Google done us a big favor in preparing for this piece. It's becoming a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the experience surrounding it.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Novell Gets Ready To Release Pulse and Federation with Google Wave
The new service will eventually fully integrate with Google Wave . This version does not include Google Wave as part of its service. Groups may also be created with external communities such as partners or customers. The service includes a co-editing feature, much like you see in Google Wave. Novell is providing the first glimpse of Pulse, its new real-time collaboration service. But there is an expectation that eventually the integration will serve as a federated platform that may serve as the basis for new open-source collaboration efforts.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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HTC Disagrees With Apple’s Actions
8221; Some of HTC’s technology firsts include: First Windows PDA (1998) First Windows Phone (June 2002) First 3G CDMA EVDO smartphone (October 2005) First gesture-based smartphone (June 2007) First Google Android smartphone (October 2008) First 4G WIMAX smartphone (November 2008) In 2009, HTC launched its branded user experience, HTC Sense. 8220;It is through these relationships that we have been able to deliver the world’s most diverse series of smartphones to an even more diverse group of people around the world, recognizing that customers have very different needs.”
Lockergnome Blog Network - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • Want to Understand Your Customers? Go Pyscho.
    Customer research tends to be demographically-biased in its design. But it is time for us to go a little psycho on customers — psychographic, that is. So why is it that we so often look at detailed website usage or customer data along impersonal demographic dimensions like age and gender? Similarly, for customers to When it comes to purchasing behavior, it is obvious that personalities matter. While useful, those characteristics don't describe attitudinal trends which may be more important — and need to be a critical complement to other data.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, May 28, 2009
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  • Learning From Craigslist: Who Are Mass Media's True Customers?
    The real customer experience lesson though, can be found in a follow-on blog post written by the story's author, Gary Wolf. And this speaks to the fundamental issue facing the mass media today — it doesn't know who its customer is. If you don't work in mass media, you might be forgiven if you think that you — the reader, the watcher, the audience member — are the customer. The cover story of the most recent issue of Wired addresses how Craigslist rose to dominate classified listings , in spite of (or perhaps because of) how little it has changed, and the quirkiness of the business.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, September 4, 2009
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  • How Google and P&G Approach New Customers, New Markets
    It seems obvious: our assumptions become less valuable the farther our experiences are from our decisions and customers. Local hiring is just the beginning- we have to make sure we are solving the right problems for customers. Leading companies such as Procter & Gamble and Google have realized that the more clearly you understand your customer or partner, and their context(s), the more likely you will be able to offer the right solutions, build When I worked with entrepreneurs and leaders in Europe, I often heard complaints like: "American companies have a habit of coming into Europe full of ambition, searching for big markets, but without fully understanding what it takes to sell a product, build a brand, or forge partnerships in each country."
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 2, 2009
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  • Let Your Customers Persuade Themselves
    Better yet, which type is your best customer? When Less celebrated but remarkably clever is Google Labs , the search engine's public playground for its more offbeat innovative betas. Then again, IBM is a classic "sales" culture rather than one empowering customers to convince themselves. Whether you're Whole While working at MIT's Media Lab , "Demo or Die" not "Publish or Perish," was our academic motto. I quickly observed that we basically produced two kinds of demos. The
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, January 22, 2010
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  • The Social Data Revolution(s)
    As a result, people have elevated their expectations for good, healthy customer relationships and exchanges. With the advent of the web, firms pondered whether it might be worth saving the vast amounts of data that customers were generating through their clicks and searches. Back then, customers had no choice but to share their intentions with firms. In 2009, more data will be generated by individuals than in the entire history of mankind through 2008. Information overload is more serious than ever.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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  • The Age of Viral Feedback
    But what happens to your suppliers' supplier — and your suppliers' buyers, complementors, and customers? Google destroyed big media with feedback. Tags: Customers Economy Global busines Welcome to the 21st century. What's different about a hyperconnected world? In a word: feedback.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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  • Google Engineering Explains Microformat Support in Searches
    Today, Google is releasing support for parsing and display of microformat data in their search results. While the initial launch will be limited to a specific set of partners (including LinkedIn, Yelp and CNet reviews), the intent is that very quickly, anyone who marks their pages up with the appropriate microformat data will be able to make their information understandable by Google. This technology would allow you to explicitly search, for example, for only printers Initial support will include things such as: Review Ratings
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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  • What Facebook's Stumble Can Teach Your Company
    Today, the standard practice by web companies seems to be captured by Google's mantra, "Do No Evil." From the customer's standpoint, this means "Trust Us." A Mark Zuckerberg blog post seems to also say "trust us ." But the firms don't "trust" their user base. The user agreements we don't read, but do acknowledge, claim many rights to content, rights to remove content, limits on liability, binding arbitration, and unilateral ability to change the user agreement at their will - just to name a few typical clauses. Given my upbringing as a rapacious capitalist, I feel that firms
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 19, 2009
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  • Why Google Employees Quit
    In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. The thread shows a brutal honesty about what it’s like to work at Google, at least from the point of view of employees who were unhappy enough to resign. One message stands out though in most of the posts - employees thought they were entering the promised land when they joined Google, and most of them were disappointed. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names.
    TechCrunch - Sunday, January 18, 2009
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  • Lookout Paypal! Google Checkout's New Gadget is Incredibly Simple
    This morning on the Google Checkout Blog , the company announced the introduction of a new, embeddable gadget which you can place on any web site where you sell your products and/or services. But what's interesting about this new gadget is how it's tied to the Google Docs service for inventory management on the back-end. According to the blog post, there are only a few steps necessary An embeddable gadget like this is nothing new to the online shopping space - Checkout's major competitor PayPal has offered their own copy-and-paste code for years on end. The gadget is also incredibly
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, July 31, 2009
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