The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
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110.7 million international visitors in June. In the US, traffic increased from 15.2 million to 27.7 million visitors over the same periodThese numbers are going to get better. And I expect Google to keep enriching the product.
Image by earcos via FlickrI am going to post a hypothesis. The hypothesis is that GroupOn always wanted to get bought, and it wanted to get bought by Google. From. Day. One. GroupOn plotted for this day to come before its inception. 
Image via WikipediaRobert Scoble: Why Google can’t build Instagram: (I was working at Microsoft as Flickr got bought by Yahoo, Skype got bought by eBay, etc etc). ..... Google, internally, knows it has an innovation problem .... is looking to remake its culture internally to help entrepreneurial projects take hold...... how Larry Ellison actually got efficiencies from teams. If a team wasn’t productive, he’d come every couple of weeks and say “let me help you out.” What did he do? He took away another person until the team started shipping and stopped having unproductive meetings. .... At Google you can’t use MySQL and Ruby on Rails .... Google Wave failed, in part, because it couldn’t keep up with the first wave of users and got horribly slow .... Small teams ruleGoogle is going to fail in the innovation department if it feels like it has to be number one in every emerging trend. On the other hand, it could keep going into new sectors of the economy like it has shown a tendency to do. Google can't beat Facebook on social, but it can beat Facebook and every other web company on wind farms and clean cars.
Image via CrunchBaseTechCrunch: Google To Facebook: You Can’t Import Our User Data Without ReciprocityThe use of the word data by Google here is key. That further confirms the point I have been making at this blog over months. Social is not in Google's DNA. Google does data, Google does information, Google does not do social. When it goes into local and location, it is hung up on data.
Image via WikipediaFacebook's out to conquer the web. Facebook is the biggest competitor that Google ever had. It is not Microsoft. To compete with Google, you needed to be online, and Microsoft is not exactly online. And this competition did not come from search, it did not come from the government stepping in with some anti-monopoly lawsuit.
Image by Eric Schmidt / Google via CrunchBase"Our policy is we try things," the Google CEO said, hours after the company announced it was halting development of the complex real-time communication tool. "We celebrate our failures. This is a company where it is absolutely OK to try something that is very hard, have it not be successful, take the learning and apply it to something new." ..... "As a culture we don't over-promote products...we tend to sort of release them and then see what happens." .... a panel in which he said that society is not ready for all the changes technology is foisting upon it..... a range of issues ranging from Android and Chrome OS to China to competition with Microsoft to a rumored deal with Verizon on Net neutrality.My personal excitement over Google Wave ended on a personally unpleasant note. But that might have saved me some time.
's growth had plateaued. What could Twitter
do to reach the masses and end up with hundreds of millions of people using the service? Simplify, simplify, simplify. Right now it is so easy to get lost in the service when you are a new user. You first start out by not believing something worthwhile can be said in 140 characters. That is too brief. You may be do not desire to share with the world what you had for lunch. You might not know who to follow. The people you personally know are not necessarily the people with the most interesting tweets
. What's a tweet
anyway? 
has to evolve as a service. A stangnant basic service that is hoping to only scale will not cut it. Twitter
at once will have to become feature rich and simpler. The biggest bottleneck to Twitter
's growth has been how primitive the search function at the site is. I can't even get it to deliver to me tweets
I posted several months ago. And all those tweets
reside on Twitter
's servers.
necessarily has to grow and eat into its ecosystem. That is how Windows grew. New, exciting, independent software programs found themselves eaten up in the next version of Windows
. The Sun
engulfed the nearby planets and grew. 
had become unmanageable for me. The retweet
feature I like, but I can see why it has generated much controversy. One big reason is the old way you could edit the tweet before retweeting it. To that I say, you can still choose to do it the old way. 
's Twitter
page weeks ago, I saw the mistake they were making. They were basically using Twitter
to collect votes for the hottest news articles for that day. That is only one of many uses of Twitter. And I think Google News
does a much better job of bringing me the news for the day. And it is not true Google
is doing real time search now. Just because you display a few tweets on the topic I just conducted a search
on does not quite cut it.
account has to be the starting point for my Twitter
experience. And one thing could add to that experience more than any other: the ability to search
all tweets that might have ever been posted. I should not have to use Delicio.us
. I should be able to store all links of interest to me right there on Twitter
, and I used to do that. Then Twitter
stopped delivering.
, just like Google
is going to have to make sense of webpages in their own right to see how much value they have, Twitter
search is going to be able to read tweets, and make sense of a large number of tweets with the same keywords to give me a feel for what the masses are thinking and feeling. Right now I don't have that. Show me on one screen what the masses are saying in a million tweets. Where is that search and display function?
is not just for now. Real time archives are also valuable. Tell me how Obama
supporters felt about Obama
in the summer of 2008
. Collect all the tweets on the topic and make sense of them all for me. 
talks, and Twitter
does not have enough of it to truly get ambitious as a basic feature of the web experience. I still think Twitter
should go for an IPO
so it will have a billion dollars to become what email would be if it were designed today. Maybe it will not be Wave, it will be Twitter
. It still can be.
has had a scalability problem because it has not had 300 million dollars to pour into its infrastructure
. Twitter
has to be always on if it can be part of the basic infrastructure
of our web experience. 
were invented today, it would not have a subject line. I would not need your email
address to be able to send you an email
. The email
would always be short. I should be able to read a million such emails in less than a minute. A celebrity should not feel overwhelmed by all the emails she gets because the search feature is so good. Because Twitter
makes sense of a million tweets on the same topic in as much time as Google takes to deliver search results. Well, Twitter
does not, not now.
DM is a joke. You have so little control over it. I get so much spam
, I stopped reading DMs months ago. 
trending topics list is so feature poor, it is not even funny
. I should be able to do time travel
with that list. I should be able to do topics, and sub topics, and sub sub topics with that list. I should be able to have a trending topics list based only on my followers. The trending topics list needs to be a full blown creature
. 
today is not all it can be. If Twitter
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