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Surprisingly, no mention of Washington Post. That keeps him firmly up there in the zone of evil. > Congratulations, sir The tone seems like that of a Bozo fanboy.
And I actually wrote this post a week before Bezos bought the WaPo, although I think it only underscores the point.
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What makes his buying WaPo evil? Seriously. At all. Anything?
There's nothing particularly evil about Bezos buying the WP, but it's another step in my long-held belief that all of the major traditional news organs will be controlled by people who make their money elsewhere.
(I would argue the best alternative is ownership by individuals/organizations who have no financial stake whatsoever in journalism.)
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She's pretty and smells good but I think we need some more solid proof.
Think about how much you hear about Yahoo in 2013. Think about how much you heard about Yahoo in 2011.
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There's nothing particularly evil about Bezos buying the WP, but it's another step in my long-held belief that all of the major traditional news organs will be controlled by people who make their money elsewhere.
I think that's a better alternative than having traditional news organs being controlled by people who make their money from those news organs. (I would argue the best alternative is ownership by individuals/organizations who have no financial stake whatsoever in journalism.)
Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
This is not an easy problem to solve while being profitable. And they are working on introducing perishables into the problem statement. Hardly easy.
While a lot of technology leaders might admire Bezos for his leadership of Amazon, I wonder how many fear him. Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut.
For example, despite years of effort, the Kindle Fire has not significantly harmed the market share or margin of the iPad. Google and Samsung have done far more damage to Apple. And Amazon's media sales are not much of a threat to Apple: they haven't stolen significant share, and Apple does not try to make money on content anyway.
I think there are a lot of people who do fear Bezos, but they are mostly retailers and hosting companies.
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Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, otherwise not very exciting. Furthermore, brick and mortar problems are hard -- things break, rot, get lost, require staff to move them around, etc. Not to poo-poo Google or any other pure software company, but it isn't harder because its on a computer, it's actual…
> not very exciting So you are "unexcited" by Glass, Loons, Earth/map/streetview, Go, etc.?