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anyone taking bets... ehm willing to speculate on what big is next dying at google? I'm thinking about google tv, or is that Q already gone? music? books? I'm h

by dewiz 13y ago

anyone taking bets... ehm willing to speculate on what big is next dying at google? I'm thinking about google tv, or is that Q already gone? music? books? I'm happy to see G staying on the marketing garden

quackerhacker 13y ago
I think Google is just refining their products, which I think is great thing for them. I think I got an email about G+ being integrated into ALL of Google's products...but who didn't see that coming.
petercooper 13y ago
I'm going with FeedBurner. Although you could argue it's already 90% dead.
- ComputerGuru 13y ago
  We're betting the same, and have put our money where our mouth is: http://feedsnap.com/ http://feedsnap.com/
  - stock_toaster 13y ago
    Go bold. Love it.
  - mh- 13y ago
    looks great, nice work
- taigeair 13y ago
  It definitely feels neglected. What do you think is a good alternative?
  - petercooper 13y ago
    Doing it yourself. I'm not convinced if even Google is willing to pay $100m for a service then let it crumble that there's much in the business model for anyone else to maintain long term.
mtgx 13y ago
Google Books is another thing that they seem to have gotten in just because they were big, and then didn't do much else. They've barely moved the needle with that service. They seem a lot more serious about music and video. I still hope they will take books more seriously soon. It's like they are not even on the map for most people right now in books.
- rogerbinns 13y ago
  I won't buy any books from them until they do DRM free epubs that I can download. (The same applies to all vendors.) They do get this right with their music.
  - AjithAntony 13y ago
    FWIW, they now let you upload your own epub and PDF files (up to 1,000 items), as of last week. If you enjoy Books as a distribution platform and reader for your devices, but want to buy your books elsewhere.
    - rogerbinns 13y ago
      I've already uploaded my collection. Unfortunately they also have a 50MB limit which excludes several of the books from the Humble Bundle eBook collection.
      - AjithAntony 13y ago
        Not sure if this would work, but it offers to let you "upload" from an existing Google Drive folder. I wonder what would happen if you added the >50MB file to google drive, and then selected it from its Drive location in the books uploader UI. The largest files I have to test area 40MB PDF and 35MB Epub, which worked. I tried a 100MB iso renamed to pdf, but it seemed to detect the right mime type and excluded it
mardix 13y ago
I think the next thing Google will kill is its search engine... :)
- jensenbox 13y ago
  If and when they have plans to do so, I hope to have it posted here: http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/ http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/
gwern 13y ago
http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns may be of interest to you.
mikeevans 13y ago
The Q is pretty much dead at this point, the new Play Music update no longer allows you to stream to it. Google TV just got an update to 4.2.2, and I think it will be updated for the time being.

by dewiz 13y ago

quackerhacker 13y ago

I think Google is just refining their products, which I think is great thing for them. I think I got an email about G+ being integrated into ALL of Google's products...but who didn't see that coming.

petercooper 13y ago

I'm going with FeedBurner. Although you could argue it's already 90% dead.

ComputerGuru 13y ago
We're betting the same, and have put our money where our mouth is: http://feedsnap.com/ http://feedsnap.com/
- stock_toaster 13y ago
  Go bold. Love it.
- mh- 13y ago
  looks great, nice work
taigeair 13y ago
It definitely feels neglected. What do you think is a good alternative?
- petercooper 13y ago
  Doing it yourself. I'm not convinced if even Google is willing to pay $100m for a service then let it crumble that there's much in the business model for anyone else to maintain long term.

mtgx 13y ago

Google Books is another thing that they seem to have gotten in just because they were big, and then didn't do much else. They've barely moved the needle with that service. They seem a lot more serious about music and video. I still hope they will take books more seriously soon. It's like they are not even on the map for most people right now in books.

rogerbinns 13y ago
I won't buy any books from them until they do DRM free epubs that I can download. (The same applies to all vendors.) They do get this right with their music.
- AjithAntony 13y ago
  FWIW, they now let you upload your own epub and PDF files (up to 1,000 items), as of last week. If you enjoy Books as a distribution platform and reader for your devices, but want to buy your books elsewhere.
  - rogerbinns 13y ago
    I've already uploaded my collection. Unfortunately they also have a 50MB limit which excludes several of the books from the Humble Bundle eBook collection.
    - AjithAntony 13y ago
      Not sure if this would work, but it offers to let you "upload" from an existing Google Drive folder. I wonder what would happen if you added the >50MB file to google drive, and then selected it from its Drive location in the books uploader UI. The largest files I have to test area 40MB PDF and 35MB Epub, which worked. I tried a 100MB iso renamed to pdf, but it seemed to detect the right mime type and excluded it

mardix 13y ago

I think the next thing Google will kill is its search engine... :)

jensenbox 13y ago
If and when they have plans to do so, I hope to have it posted here: http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/ http://jensenbox.github.io/timeline/

gwern 13y ago

http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns may be of interest to you.

mikeevans 13y ago

The Q is pretty much dead at this point, the new Play Music update no longer allows you to stream to it. Google TV just got an update to 4.2.2, and I think it will be updated for the time being.