Sep 19, 2008
Yay, Google indexed my bigyahu.com site!
Originally uploaded by thatjonesboy
I’ve used the same user ID (bigyahu) for just about everything I’ve signed up for online since 1996. Now you can find out how that happened and why it turned out to be a good thing for me professionally on www.bigyahu.com.
There are links to my personal and professional background and a photo for the curious.
My...
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Yay, Google indexed my career!
Feb 2, 2008
Google’s released a new API that allows developers to harvest the ’social graph’ – the relationships between people on the web – the links labelled ‘friend’, ‘colleague’, ‘mother’, between our individual online identities.
At the moment, there is no single social graph for the interweb. Instead, separate proprietary graphs exist on each of...
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Say goodbye to the value of your social graph
May 30, 2007
Only in the US is there a geek market large enough to have even the faintest
hope of making a profit out of serving people 3-D photo maps, though I remain sceptical that Google can ever make this pay. Not that “make it pay” is a common goal for most Google development teams.
In my testing, I found that flying around the streets of San Francisco was a little bit nausea-inducing much of the...
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New Google Maps feature: massive privacy invasion
May 30, 2007
Only in the US is there a geek market large enough to have even the faintesthope of making a profit out of serving people 3-D photo maps, though I remain sceptical that Google can ever make this pay. Not that “make it pay” is a common goal for most Google development teams.
In my testing, I found that flying around the streets of San Francisco was a little bit nausea-inducing much of the time;...
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New Google Maps feature: massive privacy invasion
Mar 2, 2007
Is having a massive online audience, across a network of online products, enough to win? Not always. The best networks must involve the audience across products, and the products in the network must be monetisable. Google’s a great example, both of what can go wrong and what can be done right.
Over coffee I asked a senior Google salesguy if it was hard selling ads on products that weren’t made...
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At Google you can’t get there from here
