I am going to go against the conventional wisdom and predict that, not only will Google+ succeed, but that it will succeed BIG.  Here’s why. Adaptability Google has learned from its mistakes. Orkut was too kludgy to appeal to most users and lacked necessary support from the Google executive team — you can’t win at social on a small scale. Wave was too complex to explain to anyone outside the Googleplex – the elevator pitch for Wave was a slide deck.  Buzz was too tightly tied to Gmail and only Read More

Facebook's alleged declaration of war on Google and the talk about the the "link" being replaced by the "like" as the new search paradigm got me thinking about search engine optimization and the future of search engines. I have to say that I never quite liked search engine optimization because it always seemed to be so much more about doing things for the robot instead of for the human. I think that providing real value to users and the overall user experience are ultimately all that matters. Everything that falls Read More

This week was marked by the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Among the biggest debuts were the motion control peripherals including PlayStation Move from Sony and Kinect for Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The race is on about which of the two technologies will perform better in practice and which will be better received in the market. Of course, neither Sony nor Microsoft were first to come up with motion control. Nintendo had this nailed since the launch of Wii with its Wii remote control in 2006. They will, however, claim to Read More

" We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet." — Albert Einstein Wired on Tuesday ran an article called "Wireless Oligopoly Is Smother of Invention" pointing out how restrictive of choice the current carrier oligopoly in the US is. Ryan Singel does an excellent job in contrasting the wireless industry with the TV and Internet service provision industry to illustrate just how closed and restrictive the wireless carriers are. I can vouch that this is not the case only in the USA, but to at least Read More

For the last few years we’ve been hearing that cloud computing is the future. Last year I’ve argued that it is already the present, and Apple just further cemented that fact with its iCloud announcement. Apple is making iCloud services available across all of their devices so data created with and stored on one device can immediately become accessible on all the others. This is precisely what represents the biggest draw of cloud computing and where all of its benefits come from, namely effective automatization of data management and access, Read More

The ByteGuide Manifesto 1.1 The Basic Principles of a Transhumanist Individualist We love technology. We embrace it as part of who we are or aspire to be. We recognize human history as that of constantly increasing co-dependence and co-evolution with technology, perpetually replacing the old paradigms with the new ones. We see a universe of possibilities unfolding as a result of that process. We are the universe turned to bits of conscious thought, and nothing but the universe itself should be our limit. To aspire towards transcendence of current limitations Read More