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An issue for Google users to ponder
Mr Glotzbach said that the company did not believe that the new e-mail feature would raise any privacy concerns.
“We’re not creating any new information, we’re leveraging information that is already there,” he said. Google already analyses the words used in e-mail messages in order to place relevant advertising against them.
FT.com / Media – Google to rank e-mails automatically
Continue reading: FT.com / Media – Google to rank e-mails automatically
Consistent with Eric Schmidt’s recent comments: “’I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,’ he elaborates. ‘They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.’"
“Important” messages are judged to be the most significant, and sit at the top of your Gmail window. Next is the “starred” area, the messages you say are important. Finally, “everything else” includes those messages that can probably be dealt with later, or completely ignored — the ones that aren’t quite spam, but don’t need to clutter up your screen or your brain right now.
Keith Coleman, Google’s product management director, told me in an interview that Google has… Continue reading: Google Offers Respite From Inbox Overload – NYTimes.com
An interesting “co-opetition” case study’; see the full Bing blog post for more details
Microsoft Microsoft Bing is now available as a downloadable application for the Android platform.
In late 2009, when Microsoft introduced a downloadable application for the iPhone from Apple, it set off some excitement in the tech world. For years, Microsoft and Apple had been head-to-head in the war for personal computing.
On Monday, the tech world was buzzing again with an announcement by Microsoft’s search group, Bing, that the company has released an application for the Android platform from Google. The… Continue reading: Microsoft Enters Google’s Unwalled Garden – NYTimes.com
More Cisco/Skype analysis
Now the question would be, how could Cisco help Skype turn a profit, a task that eluded its previous big-pocketed owner, eBay. In other words, how could Cisco make Skype’s inexpensive services less-inexpensive?
Perhaps the most straight forward way would be to charge for the use of Skype’s video conferencing , but that might be the fastest way to erode Skype’s user base. Skype has begun offering premium Skype video-conference services to mobile devices, such as Apple’s iPad. But the challenge remains converting its massive subscriber base into paying phone users. It’s possible Skype could sell advertising, but the revenue from internet ads is not likely to justify a… Continue reading: What Would Cisco Do With Skype? – Deal Journal – WSJ
For many Chatroulette users, I suspect there’s a bug-or-feature debate in this context
But the new design doesn’t appear to address the biggest problem with Chatroulette: the number of people using the site solely to share explicit images of themselves with total strangers. Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy has spoken out against people exposing themselves on the service, and this summer he wrote an open letter on the site saying that he would contact law enforcement with information about offenders.
There has been speculation that Chatroulette would implement filters to remove such content. But a look at the site makes it clear that this hasn’t happened. “It’s still the same wild, very… Continue reading: The Decline and Fall of Chatroulette – Digits – WSJ
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