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site wouldn't load for me, tried a few refreshes. Couldn't find it cached on google, so I'm pasting the content here. Hey Google You used to be a toolmaker.
by user24 16y ago
site wouldn't load for me, tried a few refreshes. Couldn't find it cached on google, so I'm pasting the content here.
Hey Google
You used to be a toolmaker. You used to be all about organising information. What happened ?
Forget competing with Facebook and go make some amazing new tools.
Creating a successful social networking site is like starting a successful new nightclub, it isn’t about solving problems it’s about being cool, and being cool ain’t what you’re about.
You’ve got cash and smart people so go invent some bad-ass new tool to take on a really big problem.
Google PagePay
Micro-payments, so bloggers can charge half a cent (or pence if you roll that way) for someone to read a full post.
Mirco-payments would change the world, a whole bunch of stuff that isn’t monetizable would become monetizable, a whole bunch of people would be able to get paid for doing what they love.
Solve the "I love to do it but I can’t get paid for it problem".
Google Cred (ibility)
Use your mad data props and data mining skillz to record and assess predictions made by pundits and public ‘experts’.
Google can tell me what I want to know it’s time it helped me work out who was worth listening to.
"Won’t added accountability cause people to be less likely to make public predictions ???" Good, if it causes people with back predictive powers to stop talking as if they were experts that’s a win.
And how great is it going to be to find out that the most reliable economic predictor didn’t go to standford, it’s some guy who no one has ever heard of who runs a beans farm in some out of the way place.
Solve the "Who do I listen to" problem.
- user24 16y ago("edit": site looks back up now)
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