Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Googlenomics



Not to totally bite the title off of the latest wired article highlighting the company that has seemingly taken over the internet forever, it just seemed appropriate. I'm sure some of you have seen a preview of the new google application Wave, if not google it. It would look to be a networking tool that will seamlessly connect all of our social networks, while allowing to communicate with our friends at the same time via instant message. All in which I thought was very interesting as I have been having trouble as of late figuring how to marry my 3 blogs, Twitter and Facebook along with all of the other online content I keep track of via feeds. Not to mention my email address's (yes plural), I know its a problem. Wave could perhaps be the first step in bringing our online world together. I also found this interesting because of the data sets that google will be able to compile. Imagine the trend topics, personal preferences and algorithms this tailor cut 'wave' of information can withhold. Google did over 30 billion in ad revenue last year and it definitely doesn't look like they are slowing down anytime soon.

Would I would like to see developed is a space that compiles all of my published content seamlessly, including my social web - plugging all of my 'blogs' back into the communities that I'm offering up the content to. While also including my 'favorite' blogs, websites, and news outlets. Tumblr has come close, my incredible attention deficit has not yet allow me to find anything that brings the whole world of it together. Until then I guess I'll be waiting to catch the next wave or solution to bringing all of my content together in one application, forum, and place.

P.S. - For developers this is an amazing open source opportunity, Google is smart for allowing them to create products and applications while Wave readies for release. Almost in the same way that the iPhone has a million and one applications, the possibilities are endless which is exactly the way they like it.

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