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

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Post by maked00 »

Some trust fund kid spouting off, blah blah blah.

Farcebook is of grannies and prole working moms.

Most of farcebook's income is from games. The rest is just the internet with training wheels for morons, just like AOL was a few years ago, and we all know how well that worked out.

The Google glasses thing is beyond stupid. Any fool can stream video from a strap on mini cam hat, have been able to for years. Ever wonder why that has not caught on?

Nice try at topicality and posing as someone in the know.

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

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Post by maked00 »

Some trust fund kid spouting off, blah blah blah.

Farcebook is of grannies and prole working moms.

Most of farcebook's income is from games. The rest is just the internet with training wheels for morons, just like AOL was a few years ago, and we all know how well that worked out.

The Google glasses thing is beyond stupid. Any fool can stream video from a strap on mini cam hat, have been able to for years. Ever wonder why that has not caught on?

Nice try at topicality and posing as someone in the know.

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

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Post by jack-r-abbit »

gcb wrote: post #229
jack-r-abbit wrote: post #214

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I don't follow.

Was an attempt at joke. Everyone do find the glasses a joke to be displayed in public environments already

oh, ok. I thought that is what you might have meant. These are prototypes so far I think. Hopefully the production version is less weird looking. :)

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

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Post by tomkarlo »

sureshv wrote: post #95
tomkarlo wrote: post #85

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That may be the first time I've ever heard anyone wax nostalgic for the Blackberry camera. Wonder if there's already an iPhone app for that.

Instagram ;-)

Not sure there's a filter in Instagram that botches up your photos as much as early-2000's blackberry. So soon we forget the years of yellow skin tones, movement blur and jarring LED flash.

One day my kids are going to look at our old photos and ask "why did photo quality go to crap from 2002-2007? Did you lose the technology?"

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

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Post by startupfounder »

What is interesting is that we think of Facebook as a social networking company, but they are mostly a hacker company whether it is hacking social networks, photos, servers, phone, etc. They have a similar culture to Google except coming at it from a DIY, teach yourself, pull it apart to put it back together again better angle and not a academic PhD research angle.

Facebook is a global company and if they come out with a phone it is most likely not going to be pointed at the US market alone. They will be developing a phone aimed at the developing country markets where they have much of their traction. My guess is that the phone will have a low price point so that it is affordable to anyone in the world who wants it who currently doesn't have a smartphone. This included with mobile payments is what Facebook is after, they want to own the global mobile market.

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

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Post by swalsh »

bertzzie wrote: post #238
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #86

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What does "cultural icon" mean? Is the Segway a cultural icon even though only ~30,000 of them exist? Pretty much everyone knows what it is but most people have not benefited from them. I would be willing to take this bet if we determine some objective criteria.

"Cultural icon" means Glass will be the next iPhone, I think.

yeah, something like this. But perhaps to a lesser degree.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

markmark wrote: post #161
falling wrote: post #39

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With Google you see research (which is of course commendable), but so far they haven’t been able to produce profit from anything else than ads, so I would call that research awesome, useful, beautiful, but not (yet) future proof for the company.

You hear this a lot (Google is an advertising company, they make 95% of their money from ads). But by that metric many companies are ad companies. Pretty much every web site on the web is just an ad company, because that is how they actually make money, most of the television and radio industries are just ad companies, because that is how they make money. From http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html if I'm r…

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

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Post by falling »

rogerbinns wrote: post #58
falling wrote: post #39

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With Google you see research (which is of course commendable), but so far they haven’t been able to produce profit from anything else than ads, so I would call that research awesome, useful, beautiful, but not (yet) future proof for the company.

Google don't have to produce profit now. Remember that they didn't profit from search or ads for a long time. What they have to do is ensure no one else profits from some research, and to have a way of profiting in the long term. That is a lot easier to work out once something is successful, you know how people use it and it has become somewhat indispensable to users.

Isn’t that repeating the same thing I said? They are creating new cool tech, but they have to figure out how to make money from it, thus it’s not future proof.

Android is successful, but apparently it’s not generating much profit for Google.

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

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Post by fear91 »

ajross wrote: post #199
qq66 wrote: post #172

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You do realize that Google has 10 times the employees, revenues, profits, etc. of Facebook?

Of course. But it's a culture thing. Google was producing great innovative madness when they were 1/10th its size size. And Facebook had what is essentially their core service already in place when they were 1/10th their current size. They've since done very little that's interesting. I don't see why that's controversial, nor why so many people feel the need to "defend" them.

The only thing that Google didn't fail with was search. Stop pretending there is anything else they've made which can't be labeled as mediocre copy at best.

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

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Post by brudgers »

hk_kh wrote: post #174
brudgers wrote: post #117

Here's the thing I see, Google has no meaningful history of monetizing things like self driving cars or video glasses or anything else except for via advertising. Yeah, they sell some web services, but that's a lot different from going head to head with companies that know about manufacturing like Toyota and BMW or those that know about consumer electronics like Samsung and Sony. I guess they could create an advertis…

Why stick to ads if you can sell / license software for cars? It could both work from a manufacturer or a personal POV. Buy my car, it comes with Google.

Can you think of an example of Google successfully licensing technology to manufacturers on a scale sufficient to noticeably change their bottom line?
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