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Friday round up - Google, China, the FLDS, Twitter and other random thoughts
Google brand equity. Someone thinks Google has the highest brand equity in the world. I disagree. If a better search tool came along you, me, and the rest of the world would dump them in two seconds. They may have “equity” given the value of the company but they have no real loyalty.
China has more Internet users than the US. They also have more than 300 million English speakers. By comparison, the US has a population of 300 million. Also, check out this month’s excellent National Geographic issue all about China.
Rand nailed the FLDS Texas debacle.
The world’s fuel and food crisis is turning into a real mess. I’m following events as they unfold on OAS. Ethanol: You could feed an adult male for a year on the corn it takes to produce one tank of gas for an SUV.
More turmoil at Twitter. For me, Twitter has come to symbolize all the problems with Web 2.0: Hubris on behalf of its founders, facilitation of the “look at me” culture, “pick me, pick me!” VC money, no real business model, bad content, and continual service outages…
Speaking of which, I missed the Web 2.0 Expo this week. It looks like some cool things are coming out at the conference, but I haven’t seen much coverage on the mainstream blogs. I think a lot of people are just over it.
I blogged this week about the death of Podcasting. On a related note, I think that Hulu is going to be much bigger than YouTube. Why? People like professional premium content over crappy user generate content - including the 18 to 30 something demographic. Copyrighted premium content is out on YouTube and in at Hulu. Prediction: give Hulu two more years and it will pass YouTube’s viewership.
As time goes on I find less and less value in Facebook. However, over time, I am finding more and more value in Linkedin.
OK, I’ve had as string of “glass is half empty” posts. Happiness coming soon…
In the mean time, have a FANTASTIC weekend!
I’m a fan of Hulu…
http://www.russpage.net/the-jerk-classic-steve-martin-on-hulu/
Office is on there, etc… Lots of great stuff. I really like the show Life, but I hadn’t seen much of it, and I was able to watch the whole season online. Hulu is the bomb.
Left by Russell Page on 04/25/2008Chris,
Thank you, thank you, for pointing out the inevitable abuse of a wonderful tool like Twitter by the “look at me” self-branded gurus who view any channel as an opportunity to spam and stroke their own egos. It’s that sort of mental masturbation that will get people to cool on a useful service.
Left by Allan on 04/25/2008@Allan:
yep that about nails it!
Left by Chris Knudsen on 04/25/2008I miss the “old” Google. The pre “game-Google–to–get-search-ranking” Google. The result I see today is mostly crap. It’s frustrating.
Left by Brad Baldwin on 04/28/2008Hulu looks great, but not viewable outside the US. I live in United Kingdom and our IP addresses are prohibited. Until Hulu can sort out licensing on the content, we can’t watch anything from this site. Until then YouTube rules the roost!
Left by John Deighton on 06/02/2008