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By: Corporations and Hypocrisy: Inconvenient truths about Google « counternotions | Fibonacci Love

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:48:05 +0000

[...] I have covered and praised Google on many occasions in this space, on Twitter and elsewhere: Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots, to cite one example. via [...]

By: Corporations and Hypocrisy: Inconvenient truths about Google « counternotions

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:28:39 +0000

[...] I have covered and praised Google on many occasions in this space, on Twitter and elsewhere: Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots, to cite one [...]

By: YouTube’s Real Reason For h.264/aac Samuel Thurston

YouTube’s Real Reason For h.264/aac Samuel Thurston — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:20:41 +0000

[...] said, a good case has been built for Google’s penetration into the voice data market (1800GOOG411, Android) as [...]

By: When is it “too early” for a new product? « counternotions

When is it “too early” for a new product? « counternotions — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:00:59 +0000

[...] Google – We explored how Google created GOOG-411, a free automated directory service, to harvest phoneme data to improve [...]

By: netapex

netapex — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:41:56 +0000

“Innovation works in unexpected ways: that team’s efforts turned into GOOG-411 directory service which refines phoneme recognition so that speech-to-text conversion of YouTube videos can better be indexed, searched, and ultimately monetized, as we recently illustrated here.” I will readily admit to being an extreme Google “Fanboy”. Not because I believe they can do no wrong, but because the right that they do is planned further ahead than even they know. Anyone remember Grandcentral? Lets start back at Goog-411 and question why the free voice service. People talk to it and it starts to aquire voice recognition. “Waste of money” some say. Google buys Grandcentral (a free VOIP service) and quickly stops signups leaving only the group who were lucky enough to be members able to play with their Grandcentral accounts. (Hmmm, maybe that was so they could use the VOIP technology for their Gtalk client?) Google then starts dabbling in offering FREE wireless access to cities. Ouch!! That can’t be good for the bottom line can it?! Then we introduce Android. Open source phone OS. Waste of time and money? After all, “iPhone iz da best” blah blah blah. Misteps all along the way by themselves it may seem, but then the latest news comes out and brings to light things that people (M$’s Ballmer for one) may not have seen coming. The latest update on Grandcentral is that it is to be renamed Google Voice (https://www.google.com/voice/about). With it’s many options (being able to record conversations, speech to text voice mail alerts) we begin to see where all of these ideas join as one. Jump ahead a few years and the G6 (hypothetical name, don’t start doing searches for it) will be an Open source phone without a carrier on the Google wireless network with some outrageous speed using VOIP for phone service, and directly connecting you to your email, voice mail, contacts and social networking while feeding your cat and walking your dog. It’s very easy to find fault in a companies plan when you only see page 4 of the document. No one but Google knows what they are going to do (sometimes even they don’t) but if we look at what they HAVE done and what technology is capable of, it’s pretty safe to assume that they aren’t going to stop at “offering a service that ends up costing them” without it benefiting them in the long run. I am a loyal Sprint customer, currently own a Windows Mobile phone (HTC Touch Pro), and unless something drastic happens in the next few months, I will continue on with those statistics. BUT when HTC comes up with a version of Android on the Sprint network I know that I will hop on the band wagon simply because I know that it will be moving forward. It isn’t about being better than the iphone, or being a Fan Boy… it’s about seeing where Google is going to head next! Think about it, most house holds have at least one computer that can be shared with all in the house… but each person wants to have their own cell phone. When you see them making moves, think “How does this translate into the cell phone world.” Cell phones are simply portable ways to access the Internet. And the Internet (not just search) is where Google strives to achieve dominance.

By: startupi » TvMoob: Monetizing Videos

startupi » TvMoob: Monetizing Videos — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:05:44 +0000

[...] the time being that is true. They also say that this is a problem. Here I would have to disagree. I recently read this discussion about what Google is building with YouTube. While monetization is an ongoing goal and preoccupation, it is clear that Google has other [...]

By: Google Dethroned (on Brandan Lennox's Blog)

Google Dethroned (on Brandan Lennox's Blog) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:53:45 +0000

[...] This post at counternotions details how Google may have already started this process. ↩ [...]

By: They Just Don’t ‘Get It’ « Not The Droids You Are Looking For

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:14:15 +0000

[...] How Google connects the dots [...]

By: Book review: “Closing the Innovation Gap” « counternotions

Book review: “Closing the Innovation Gap” « counternotions — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:25:12 +0000

[...] A great example of this in the book is a Google manager who decided to hire an entire team of speech technologists because he thought they were really smart, without any idea what specific product they might build at Google. CEO Eric Schmidt says Google is poorly managed by design and had no idea his company had a world-class group working on speech recognition and likely would not have approved the hirings himself. “Part of our culture is that the management don’t need to check with me,” Schmidt says. Innovation works in unexpected ways: that team’s efforts turned into GOOG-411 directory service which refines phoneme recognition so that speech-to-text conversion of YouTube videos can better be indexed, searched, and ultimately monetized, as we recently illustrated here. [...]

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:28:23 +0000

Google already indexes YouTube video content??