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The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images

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Post by excuse-me »

27182818284 wrote: post #106
excuse-me wrote: post #45

"Imagine actors and athletes doing what they do today on Twitter—sharing their adventures from a first-person POV—except doing it with Glass." Imagine having to click on a dozen copyright notices and pay for each image you see on Google/Facebook because the image they just took is owned by $ACTOR in europe, but $STUDIO in USA and $AGENCY in Japan but a blank page because Facebook doesn't have a right to use it in Can…

Why is this different than say Instagram by a celeb which happens all the time?

People don't "follow" images on Instagram by actors - the google glasses example is proposing a twitter-like system where users follow an actor's view live.

Imagine a system where Napster had a musician bugged and could stream what they were playing in the studio - think there might be right's issues ?

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Post by benburleson »

confluence wrote: post #109
dxbydt wrote: post #99

to gauge marginal positive externalities, invert the principal component & see what remains. as an example - suppose you wake up tomorrow and google search stops working. never mind why - some random bug impossible to figure out, so it just stops working. Then what are the positive externalities that remain ? Well, gmail. youtube. android. gdrive. maps. picasa. blogger. reader. googledocs. googlecheckout. etc etc etc…

Reminds me of a Charlie Munger quote: that to get closer to the right answer, scholars should "invert, always invert." You have a strong point there. Most top 100 websites I see are just frontends to databases . I kid you not. Their competitive advantage is proprietary data holding and network effects to get more data. Google - search + database frontend. Facebook - database frontend. YouTube - database frontend. Yah…

What's a good example of a site that isn't a db frontend?

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #55
gouranga wrote: post #32

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I don't and never will have. The marketing is pointing to deep integration like this.

whoosh

I'm sorry, but the notion that we're going to draw wide-reaching conclusions and reference "marketing" based on... basically absolutely nothing is just silliness.

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Post by grandalf »

toemetoch wrote: post #81
grandalf wrote: post #52

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A camera that takes images comparable to a picture taken on a current iPhone? For every frame (such as in a video) the amount of work involved to reduce boredom increases. Raw video of people's lives is utterly, unimaginably boring, even if the person is a celebrity. Still photos work b/c they capture a whole moment, with just enough detail to inspire the imagination and to ground the imaginings in reality. My person…

It's not the device, it's the applications people will crave. Think about these apps for your glasses: - adBlocker to remove ads from your view - first person shooter missions with google maps integration. All you need is an empty cow-pasture. - architects/renovators guiding people through their new/renovated house before the contract' signed. - ... You're suffering from a serious lack of realism if you discard them…

I think the augmented reality aspect is going to be awesome, I just don't imagine wanting to watch the video someone else is seeing in real time -- though after some editing it could be very fun to watch.

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Post by JAlexoid »

taligent wrote: post #140
dvdhsu wrote: post #59

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> Being able to connect with people from around the world and share content is not a big waste to society. That's correct. However, the ability to "connect with people from around the world and share content" is, as your parent post notes, is Facebook's "core" functionality. What does Facebook have to show for the engineers they've hired this year, engineers they've hired last year? Are read receipts on Facebook chat…

When Google changes its icons for special occasions is that more beneficial to "society" than other things they could be working. Is ANYTHING people do really the best they could do for society. I just don't understand why you are holding Facebook to some arbitrary standard.

Actually, Google Doodles educate the society at large about people that made a difference in this world. So yes, work on Google Doodles is beneficial to society.

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Post by mechnik »

vibrunazo wrote: post #93
robinsloan wrote: post #72

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Author here: I'm with you. The steady success of the self-driving cars has made me take some of these other projects much, much more seriously. Maybe it's simply the Thrun factor?

> Maybe it's simply the Thrun factor? That man's track record of amazing projects is really jaw dropping. Self driving cars, udacity and glass? I want a planet with more people like that in it.

Exciting stuff. Sebastian might be staying up late working on the 'Milk and Cookies' humanoid android release.

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Post by fryguy »

imd wrote: post #8
eitally wrote: post #5

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The fact of the matter is that most people are less concerned about personal privacy and data security than they are maintaining social relationships, so while I don't disagree with your premise I would argue that your point is fairly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. I fully expect we'll end up with a few competing Skynets in the next couple of decades, but the best we can hope for is that their overlor…

Surely that's not the best we can hope for—or work for. It is not out of the realm of possibility that distributed social networks, like email or Diaspora, can gain popularity. But I don't know how to make that appealing to average people.

If your concern is that a single entity is going to have your information, then Diaspora wouldn't help you anyways, as long as at least one of your friends is using a federated service that is a majority service (like blogger).

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Post by confluence »

katbyte wrote: post #124
confluence wrote: post #120

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If you're talking about warehousing/logistics - that is true. However they only did it because they had to reduce costs and simplify processing. I'm pretty sure Amazon would be much happier to just dropship by making an API call to third party logistics - which is essentially an inventory database from Amazon's point of view - but they are just too big now . I think they still do that with long tail items (don't stor…

Would not having a 3rd party handle the logistics cut into their profit margins? I would assume because they do it in house and at such a large scale they save money vs hiring a 3rd party that would want their own cut raising logistic costs.

Yes. They did that at the beginning, but since they scaled up they have brought a lot of it in house.

I was addressing the fact that even though they did logistics/warehousing, I still believe them to be a database frontend (inventory/customer/credit cards), and I disagree with the above statement:

> However, I'll disagree with Amazon.com. Purchasing real world products is much more than just a database frontend.

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Post by xal »

Splines wrote: post #29
stesch wrote: post #20

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Yes, Apple will bring out a cool version in 2020.

How do you make wearing a headpiece cool? I wear glasses and imagine some teeny tiny thing embedded in one of the arms. What could 20/20 people do that would be socially acceptable? Maybe a bluetooth headset looking thing?

Given where Lasik is at, aglasses are going to be a purely optional fashion statement in 10 years. It will be perfectly acceptable and fashionable ( at times ) to wear them.
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