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No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
- richeyrw 14y agoReally?!? Because I'm pretty sure no one is more excited than me...
- Qantourisc 14y agoI bet he likes it, now users don't even have to submit anything any more to be monitored :/
- schraeds 14y agoAnd why do you think Google likes it?
- rhizome 14y agoThat's my thought: Zuckerberg would likely support any development that increased the amount of personal data users were willing to submit to a service. Reducing the friction of doing so is secondary, and in these ways the interests of FB and Google are aligned.
- OGinparadise 14y agoNo One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Yeah and no one is more excited for FB stock's relative comeback than Brin. Please.
- rgbrenner 14y agoIf I was Mark, I would be incredibly excited. Imagine the advertising opportunities. You (as a FB user) would wear Glass because it allows you to stay in easy contact with your friends. In exchange, FB gets location data, that they can use to sell ads. Imagine if FB could popup an ad (or a coupon) for a store as you walked passed. Or tell you how many of your friends liked the restaurant across the street (displayed if the company opts in (for a fee of course)). And the ads would be displayed right in your face. Just think how much a company would pay for that.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agopresumably you could do all that on a phone too, yet they havent....
- rgbrenner 14y agoOn a phone, you could ignore the ad, and there's limited screen space. On glass, you ARE going to see it, and the screen space is your entire field of vision. Edit: I think Glass actually solves a huge problem with mobile for FB/Google/MySpace/etc: displaying ads. Right now, they make virtually nothing from mobile users, which is a threat to their company as more people use their phones/tablet/etc to access the site. With more screen space, they would easily have room for non-intrusive ads, and ads similar to what is displayed on the desktop. So they should be able to fix their problem with mobile.
- OGinparadise 14y agoEdit: I think Glass actually solves a huge problem with mobile for FB/Google/MySpace/etc: displaying ads. Who's problem is that? I have never heard a user complaining that only 2 ads fit on the small screen. Have you?
- rgbrenner 14y agoThe part you quoted clearly says it's a problem FOR fb/google/etc. They have acknowledged the problem repeatedly in the financial statements. Maybe try reading a little closer?
- OGinparadise 14y agoThe part you quoted clearly says it's a problem FOR fb/google/etc. They have acknowledged the problem repeatedly in the financial statements. Maybe try reading a little closer? So poor FB and Google have a problem because they cannot fit 50 ads on the screen. What a shame, they cannot make another $10 billion a year. To solve their problem we will wear some cheesy glasses so we cannot escape ads. Get what I tried to say? The glass solves Google's ad "problem," if but only if enough users become Glassholes. But why should they? What problem do they solve for average Joe that cannot be solved by iPhone or Android or W Phone? None
- VaucGiaps 14y agoThat's a great reason not to buy it. I'll pass. Gladly.
- knieveltech 14y agoThe thought of Facebook on Glass makes my blood run cold. Thank you for reminding me why early adoption may not be recommended here.
- RougeFemme 14y agoyou can become a tester for $1500: http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/ http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/
- anthonycerra 14y agoInteresting marketing term for what is traditionally known as a "customer".
- molsongolden 14y agoDid anyone else get a malware warning? Not sure if I accidentally clicked something on the page or if it was triggered by something loading but my office malware blocker stopped a redirect then I was able to continue reading the article.
- hugoc 14y agoNo malware, I linked to the 'print' page of the article which has a cleaner design but Forbes.com is doing a redirect it seems.
- mtgx 14y agoWhich is why Google will probably keep the API's as tight as possible in the beginning, and as integrated into Google+ and Youtube as possible, and Zuckerberg and Facebook deserve that. Sure you might be able to share some pictures, although probably not in a very easy way, but I'm sure Facebook will not be able to have any kind of deep integration into Glass or Glass apps.
- MrScruff 14y agoThat would open Google to accusations of hypocrisy, no? http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/20/google-gundotra-video/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/20/google-gundotra-video/
- waterlesscloud 14y agoIt'll be completely jailbroken within a week of release, like everything else in the universe. And if they try to force tight integration with G+ and youtube at the expense of Facebook, they'll just be insuring that consumers want to install the break.
- lukevdp 14y agoConsumers will want facebook integration. If it isn't on the glass, there will be other products pretty soon that will have it
- rgbrenner 14y agoI agree with you. But there are different levels of integration. I can't imagine glass will be much different than Andoid when it comes to Facebook. Setup your Google+ account to sign in to Google Play, and then you can install the FB app, if you want to. In fact, when I imagine the Google Glass software, I imagine a modified/extended version of Android. That way it fits together with everything else - phones, tablets, google play, google+, etc.
- eqreqeq 14y agoScrew that. They should make it exclusive for as long as day can get away with it. iPhone was exclusive for a year and developers where screaming at the door to let them in.
- personlurking 14y agoSomeone in a Reddit comment coined the term 'glasshole', likely in reference to the type who walk around with the bluetooth piece talking loudly about 'important' things. For those who have seen the film Children of Men, there's a scene in there of a young man in a nice apartment who is playing video games on a strange, futuristic headset which, if I remember correctly, somewhat resembled Glass. He looked like he had psychological problems. We're getting closer and closer to Surrogates/Gamer/Sleep Dealer/etc, something I'm not excited about at all.
- taopao 14y agoHave you stepped outside recently and seen just how many people are stooped over a smartphone? We're living in that reality right now, only people are developing neck problems doing it.
- avenger123 14y agoIt's the trend for even further individualization in society. We are already as a society less communal and having another device that is even more always on, gives us even less reason to interact with our fellow human beings.
- mediocregopher 14y agoGargoyle from Snow Crash also comes to mind. I don't yet know if this is a bad thing or just another stage in the way humans live our lives, but it's definitely going to be interesting.
- endtime 14y agoI downvoted you, because your entire comment is predicated on the fallacy of generalization from fictional evidence, and what I'll call "argument by pithiness".
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI upvoted him for exhibiting what I call "argument by imagination".
- meaty 14y agoThat will be because the nefarious asshat (Zuck) can find more ways to obtain data without you having much choice.