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The value that lurks below

March 29th, 2009 1 Comment

Over the past 5 years more and more companies have found value in the data already in their possession. Companies like Walmart have used data collected to create a competitive advantage, enabling them to dominate their industry. Google is a business founded on the value of data and clearly has set the standard for [...]

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Google Gets the future Cognitive Economy

December 17th, 2007 No Comments

I have long explained to people the value of the data corporations collect. I have seen first hand the value of large pools of correlated, linked, behavior generated data and as Tim O’Reilly points out in his post so does Google.
My favorite definition of Cognitive** is:
Having a basis in or reducible to empirical [...]

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Look out here comes the Nokia based Google Phone

October 16th, 2007 No Comments

Google releases Google Maps for Symbian Devices. Just more Fuel for my earlier post about the ideal combination of Nokia and Google. It is probably my wishful thinking but it has a great deal of potential.

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What if Google used Nokia instead of HTC for the Google gPhone

October 1st, 2007 1 Comment

I was thinking about the Nokia acquisition of NavTeq and Google phone. I asked myself what if Google was going to use Nokia for the handset in place of HTC. The more I thought about it the more I thought the combination would be a great one. Google the King of the services and Nokia [...]

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Welcome FeedBurner

June 10th, 2007 No Comments

I have finally closed on my RFP for feed management. It only took me 10 months, that’s about right for an IT project. I have to say the set up was easy and straight forward.
I look forward to the day when Google analytics is merged with FeedBurner. Google will soon have a [...]

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Google Reader Updated

September 29th, 2006 No Comments

I have in the past written about Google Reader. It has received a needed update that has taken it to a whole new level. I have been of late getting tired of the river of news format, and have secretly hoped Google would do something about it. I tried tags and reading a [...]

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The numbers, give me the numbers

August 29th, 2006 No Comments

A simple example of a quantitative approach to estimates. There are many more examples from the likes of John P. Craven using of Bayes’ theorem of subjective probability (pg. 104) and Google.
Quantitative Research defintion via Wikipedia
Quantitative research is the systematic scientific investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationships.
Yeah, just give me the [...]

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Simple shifts

August 28th, 2006 No Comments

As the understanding of the web matures, new unique perspectives of the web are going drive innovation. In the beginning having the web was the driving force of innovation (The Bubble was a side effect), and by all measures that type of innovation is still going on today. Now after more than a decade [...]

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Google visualization a contrast in styles

August 23rd, 2006 No Comments

I really like the Google finance visualization. On the other hand Google analytics could be greatly improved. Coda Hale did a great analysis and offers some suggestions. Google has a talented team of people who did the Finance visualization, I agree with Coda Hale, have them do Google analytics.
When I first saw Google [...]

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