Recently, a lot of hype has surrounded mobile focused services known as online location-based social networks (SNs) (i.e., foursquare.com, centrl.com, gowalla.com, and Google latitude). These are largely mobile internet-based apps that let you track and share location-based information with a network of contacts (or with the general user base). This information can include recommendations (i.e. for activities or restaurants), […]
Charging Google in Spain or Net Neutrality?
“It is evident that internet search engines use our networks without paying us anything, which is good for them and a disgrace for us” …. “this can not continue, we set up the networks (….) we do everything. This will change, I am sure.” These statements were made by Telefonica’s president Mr. César Alierta this past Feb 5, 2010 […]
The Other Side of the Buzz
On February 9, 2010, Google launched Buzz – the newest addition to the rapidly growing family of online social networking tools. Borrowing heavily from Friendfeed, a part of the Facebook platform, Buzz’s feature set includes the usual suspects of real time activity streaming, photo and video sharing, as well as several bonus features, such as geo-location and content recommendations. Currently, […]
Why is Google a little touchy with the iPad? Another sequel of Cloud Wars
Last October, The Economist trumpeted “The Clash of the Clouds” or the beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, and Apple. For the last two years, we have witnessed a bipartisanship in this war, which simplified to everybody against Microsoft. Google’s announcement last November of Chrome OS (see a previous post in this blog) could be interpreted as another […]
