Comments on: Game Changer: Why Google bought Aardvark for $50 million

By: A cough man

A cough man — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:03:12 +0000

this is way more interesting than any track and field event:
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/olympics/2006/writer...
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2007/03/thb-...

and hockey is basketball for men with testicles.

By: A cough man

A cough man — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:03:00 +0000

this is way more interesting than any track and field event:
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/olympics/2006/writers/02/15/moguls.bloom/p1_dawson_0215.jpg
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2007/03/thb-Ski-123_2027.JPG

and hockey is basketball for men with testicles.

By: A cough man

A cough man — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:03:12 +0000

By: amitklein

amitklein — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:10:00 +0000

I love the aardvark chat bot, it’s awesome. You’re right about privacy being the biggest concern and the mobile usage for Aardvark could be incredible.

By: amitklein

amitklein — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:08:00 +0000

Google does make it easy to link up the other services, but they key for them will be getting integration with FB. Google has 176 mil gmail users, FB has 400 mil users, half of whom login every day. That’s ridiculous.

No one uses Google ID, Facebook connect is spreading much quicker. I think FB will eventually become your defacto identity on the web, there is already too much built up (all the photos you’re tagged in, all the connections you’ve made). A few caveats though, they are being pushed hard to open up and let you export all this data, and like you rightfully mentioned privacy concerns being huge. Some more big blunders and people could hit the kill switch. I also think there will be a counter movement of people (mid 20′s hipsters) leaving this social networks in droves in a few years. We’ll see…

By: amitklein

amitklein — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:05:00 +0000

also, i will be headin to SF sometime soonish… finally the winter olympics are stupid except for the biathlon – ski ski shoot shoot ski shoot

By: amitklein

amitklein — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:03:00 +0000

It’s not just gonna be some random/anonymous person answering your questions (the current google static search model – random blog posts), it will be someone you either directly have a connection with, friend of a friend, or someone who the community rates as really knowledgeable in the area (high reputation within that niche). If one of my friends answers your questions, you can ask me, hey does this guy know what he’s talking about. You will get multiple answers also, so you dont have to trust one person. It’s also not about always getting the “right” answer, but getting the resources to help you find the right answer.

I remember a long time ago Google said their goal was to show you just one answer for your search query… that to me seems really scary, isn’t this better?

By: amitklein

amitklein — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:10:02 +0000

I love the aardvark chat bot, it's awesome. You're right about privacy being the biggest concern and the mobile usage for Aardvark could be incredible.

By: amitklein

amitklein — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:08:51 +0000

No one uses Google ID, Facebook connect is spreading much quicker. I think FB will eventually become your defacto identity on the web, there is already too much built up (all the photos you're tagged in, all the connections you've made). A few caveats though, they are being pushed hard to open up and let you export all this data, and like you rightfully mentioned privacy concerns being huge. Some more big blunders and people could hit the kill switch. I also think there will be a counter movement of people (mid 20's hipsters) leaving this social networks in droves in a few years. We'll see…

By: amitklein

amitklein — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:05:10 +0000

also, i will be headin to SF sometime soonish… finally the winter olympics are stupid except for the biathlon – ski ski shoot shoot ski shoot