Thursday, October 27, 2005

Google does it again!!

Google creates online database of mail order catalogues. The vendor can submit the content to google or can potentially make his content retrieved by google. This means the vendor does not need to have an ecommerce site, can continue to do brick and mortar business but in a different way with increased order flow perhaps.

Are you slowly getting to the point??????? Do you mean, Google is getting slowly into eBay's space?? Or to that matter any other ecommerce site? I think yes. Look at it... Google is finding out the best things that can happen to Internet and combining them in one site i.e. www.google.com.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

One of the leadership qualities - Strong belief in winning idea

the scene... employee staff meeting of a software company
the speaker just finished his speech and is open for questions. The speaker holds second highest position in the company.

the question came from one of the employee and related to a new project that is so much talked about in the company. The question was what if the new project fails !, do you have an alternate plan.

And the answer has come in notime. You cant win the war if you are losing it. Obvious !! But the essense is the belief. Belief in the team, in the idea, in the market, in the success rather in making the idea a success. First of all this project would not have been selected if its not a winning idea. And even if its slowly slipping the leader has great ability to bring it back on to the foot and make it a winning.

I salute the leader.

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Google !! The ubiquitous name in the byte world.

I dont know how and where to start this. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is making news all over. Every morning I click on Google News button on Google toolbar, I see some news on some innovation that Google does. Though to many net visitors google is just a search engine there are many more applications that this tiny giant is into. Just did a search for Google in Google Search Engine and it fetched 728,000,000 results (in 0.12 seconds). Microsoft scores 733,000,000 and Yahoo scores 413,000,000. That explains the spread of Google.

And look at the diversity of Google's projects. Search Google NASA, Google SUN, Google Microsoft, Google Satellite, Google Outsourcing, Google Productivity, Google Scholar, Google Pictures ... the list continues. Do you think Google is offering various tools and services on its web page that come packaged in a GUI Based operating system (read that as Windows or Mac OS X or ...). You have everything available on the internet. Including 2GB of space today. May be more tomorrow. Why would I buy a demanding piece of hardware and install more demanding piece of software? I would rather buy a thin client with Internet connection (probably a bare minimum laptop with wireless connection) and everything else computed over the web. Do we see some radical changes in near future?

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