Contents 2009

An Open Google
Paul Carr: Bringing Nothing To The Party
Avatar
Her Morning Elegance
Volcanic Eruption 4,000 Feet Below Sea Level
Panic Attack: $300 To $30 Million
Whuffie: Vamsi Sistla
Time, Facebook Connect, And Comments
Tiger
John Chow 
Pete Cashmore 
Dennis Crowley: I Underestimated Him
2010 Trends: Pete Cashmore's Take
Discovering Andrew Wong
Droid Does
Google Wave For The Masses
Finally Real Time Search From Google
The Pro-Blogger's Daily Routine
New Yorker, New York Times Style, Twitter And Me
December 2009 NY Tech MeetUp
Arrington's Thanksgiving
Madonna Is Dating Jesus, No Kidding
Ustream: Realtime
Finally, Twitter Ads
Scam
Web 2.0 Expo NY 09
I Got My Retweet Button Now
When O'Reilly Said 2.0
This Blog's Alexa Rank Is Up Substantially
Web Search, Real Time Search, Social Search
And If This Is Not JP Rangaswami
Deindexing Murdoch
Eric Schmidt
C++ plus Python = Google GO
Kevin Rose
Steve Mills Of IBM: RealTime
My Talk On Social Media At The Science House MeetUp
Hackers/Founders MeetUp: Last Thursday Each Month
Twitter Should Go For A Netscape-Like IPO
November 3 NY Tech MeetUp 
I Now Have Google Wave
I Have Access To Twitter Lists
Web 2.0 Summit 09
Jeff Jarvis, Me And Twitter
Google, Bing And Social Media
Droid Does
Content, Microcontent, Blogging, Microblogging
I Must Be Following A Lot Of People On Twitter
Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen
A Netflix For Books Needed
The Next Big Thing In Social Networking
NYC Twitter Elite: Number 12
Sitting Next To David Rose At The NY Tech MeetUp
My First Time Seeing Jimmy Fallon In Action
Pete Cashmore
Celebrating YouTube
Zuckerberg Interview
Tweets And Facebook Updates: The Mumbojumbo
My First Tweet From My Phone
Larry And The Cloud
Twitter Top 100 NYC: I Am In
October 2009 NY Tech MeetUp
Almost There
Twitter Top 100 NYC
Make Money On Twitter
Search: Pregnant Territory
What Makes An Entrepreneur Tick?
That Thing About Changing The World
The Science House MeetUp
Google, Micropayments, And Online Newspapers
Jay Leno Should Go On YouTube
Tim O'Reilly Mentions Scott Heiferman On TechCrunch
Twitter Top 0.1%
Netizen: The First Blog To Place The PayCheckr Button
The PayCheckr Promise
NY Tech MeetUp: Gravitas
Anil Dash On Google Wave
September 2009 NY Tech MeetUp
What's The Big Deal About Real Time?
CubanSpeak: Controversial Take On Entrepreneurs
CubanSpeak: Change And The Internet
The FriendFeed, Facebook Merger
Bing + Yahoo + Wolfram Alpha
Something's Rotten, It's Not The Fish
Twitter Should Hand Over Search To Google
Melange
It's Not HP, It's The PC
Twitter Number 115 In New York City
[WordPress #336657]: Not Being Able To Leave Comments
Harlem
Roosevelt Island
India Day Parade
Empire State Building
George Washington Bridge
It's Not Dell, It's The PC
Columbia University
Photo Blogging
Rockefeller Center
Bryant Park
Grand Central
UN Building
Union Square
World Trade Center
Staten Island Ferry
Brooklyn Bridge
Downtown Brooklyn
Prospect Park
Little Bangladesh
Coney Island Beach
Central Park
July Was Netizen Blog Carnival Month
Ridgewood
Times Square
Blog Carnival: Global Poverty
Jackson Heights
Blog Carnival: Entrepreneurship
Paramendra Bhagat July 2009
Mobile Web Is Still Web, Not Desktop Gone Small
Blog Carnival: Android
Bill Gates, Chrome OS, Natal, Wave
Twitter, TechCrunch, And The Stolen Docs
Blog Carnival: Google Wave
Bill Gates Drove Up Traffic To This Blog
Subscribe
Bill Gates: Behind The Curve On Chrome OS
Blog Carnival: Bill Gates, Chrome OS
Bill Gates On The Chrome OS
PayCheckr Potential
Taking Broadband To Every American: What Google And The Feds Can Do
Blog Carnival: Google (2)
Blog Carnival: Google
July 2009 NY Tech MeetUp
Bing ---> Chrome OS ---> Office 2010
Tens Of Billions Of Hours Available
TechCrunch Rebuttal: Google Should Not Make Its Formula Transparent
Seth Godin And Blog Traffic
Google Chrome Operating System: Pinging Bing
Blog Carnival: Venture Capital
PayCheckr: Bringing Money Into Blogging?
Sparq And Tweet Ads
Blog Carnival: Microfinance
Best Of
A Small Hiatus
Everest And Me
Seth Godin Looks Like A Movie Star
Blog Carnival: Cheap Laptops
On Business Models: Free Is Not Always Good
Bleak Job Numbers
Free Is The Future: Picking A Fight With Mark Cuban
TechCrunch Has Linked To A Blog That Stole My Material
140 Characters: Enough
The Future Is Multilingual
Blog Carnival: Wimax
Telecommuting: Choice 1, Not Second Choice
Oracle, Oracle
Blog Carnival: Internet For The Billions
July: Netizen Blog Carnival Month
Bye Bye Geocities
Social Capital And The Venture Capital Game
There Aren't Enough Photos And Videos Online
So I Have Decided To Launch A Blog Carnival
Search: The Human Vs. The Machine
Michael Jackson's Death And The Internet: A New Way To Mourn
My Tweet Psych
The Best Follow Friday I Ever Received On Twitter
Seth Godin: Best Business Blogger?
Fred Wilson
InRev TwitIn Now Does People Search
Data Rich Customer Service
Dynamic PageRank And Real Time Search
The Kevin Marks Departure
This Reminds Me Of The Web 3.0 Definition Fight
I Did My Part
Google Wave API Google Group: Got To Undo The Ban On Me
Microblogging Search: What Took Google So Long?
Google Wave Protest
Google Wave API Google Group: Stalinist Mindset
Space, Time And Twitter: Are There Plant Twitters?
The Google Wave Developer Community Will Be Vibrant
JP Rangaswami, Utterly Confused Of Calcutta (2)
My Twitter Suspension Lifted
Can Tweet Google, Can't Tweet Twitter
Damien Mallen In Town
The IC Vision: Sequencing The Components
7 Ways To Make Money Blogging
Tagged: Chugging Along, But What Differentiates?
Opera Unite: New Definition For Client/Server
Maybe America Does Not Need To Make Things
Monetizing Twitter: A Few Ideas
Five Blind Men And Google Wave
A Little Trouble At The Google Wave API Google Group
Lessons From The Open Source Community For The Wave Community
Google Wave Developer Community: Asking For A Culture?
The Google Corporate Culture
Facebook Landgrab: A Friday Midnight Call
15 Ways To Boost Traffic To Your Blog
Mashable Did It
New York Times, Don't Die, Live
How To Become A Professional Blogger
Google Wave: Organizations Will Go Topsy Turvy
JP Rangaswami, Utterly Confused Of Calcutta
Facebook And Mashable: Social Media And Social Media Blog
Information As Service, Service As Information
How To Increase Your Following On Twitter
Bowling Alone: Another Look At Rajeev Matwani's Death
Rajeev Motwani
Google Wave: Enormous Buzz
Larry Ellison
Possible Google Wave Applications And Innovations
All Books Need To Go Digital
Google Wave Architecture: Designed For Mass, Massive, Global Innovation
The Google Wave Architecture
17 Suggestions To Blogger
Square Search
Google Wave Ripples
NY Internet Week: NYTM Showcase
Is Google Wave Social Enough To Challenge Facebook, Twitter?
Blogger Search Gadget: What Took You So Long?
Of Waves And Tsunamis
Google Wave: Wave Of The Future?
Each Snowflake Is Unique
Google Wave: If Email Were Invented Today
Hunger, Vision, Money
Wolfram Alpha: An Answer Engine, Not A Search Engine
Contents 2009
Contents 2005-2008
Feedburner Jump: 6 To 31
Facebook's Ad Space Is Different
Netizen Is No Spam Blog
Best Way To Increase Traffic To Your Blog
The Android Architecture
Android Netbook
Donut Android: Android 2.0
Android
Google: Tweet Me Baby One More Time
Real Time Search: Twitter Is Not Doing It
Google's Newest Venture: Google Ventures
Distributed Search
Wolfram Apha Is Cool
The Plateau Will Last Less Than Nine Months
Google Falling Behind Twitter?
Taking The Number 2 Spot On Google Search For Donut Android
Hitting Number 4 For Google Search Results on Cupcake Android
Donut Android: Windows 95, Android 2009?
Cupcake Android Delay Reason: Donut Android
Eminem: The Relapse: Twitter
Bad Time To Start A Company?
The Big Money Is Not In Blogging
Cisco's Big Dreams: A Clash Of Titans?
Google Analytics Says I Am Paul Krugman Friend, Cupcake Android Expert
What Does Your Resume Look Like Today?
What Just Happened?
Content Is Queen, Marketing Is Princess
Google Is Working On Search
What If The Plateau Lasts Nine Months?
Mideast Peace: Tech Industry Style
Job Hunting And 2.0
Brands Will Still Matter
Facebook Faceoff Firefox
Ggoats
Stand Up Comedy: Thinking On Your Feet: 2.0
Is Reading Socializing?
New York City: Transformed Forever?
Reimagining The Office
Stream 2.0: The Next Big Thing?
Microfinance, Nanotech, Biotech, Software/Hardware/Connectivity
Define Social Media
Peter Thiel: Primitive Mind In The Tech Sector
May 5 NY Tech MeetUp
The Stream, The Lifestream, The Mindstream
David Gelernter: Manifesto
Blogging: Monkey Business?
Content Is Queen
Cyber Security: Growing Challenges
Converting To The Mass Follow Formula On Twitter
Stephen Hawking Has Taken Sick
NewsDesk: China, Twitter, Hawking, Obama
Blogging = Learning + Teaching + Churning + Entertaining
The United States Of Entrepreneurs
Spamming Om Malik
Digg Button, Twitter Button For Your Blog Posts
My Relationship With Ashton Kutcher
The Human Is The Center Of Gravity In Computing
Blogging Several Times A Day
Visionary Entrepreneurs Will Recreate The World
That Plateau Feeling
Blogging Tips
0 Tweets, 30,000 Followers: Could That Be Oprah?
That StartUp Mentality (2)
That StartUp Mentality
A Blogger Is Also An Editor
Blog Daily
Where Have You Placed Your Ads?
Twitter Is Not Micro
Cupcake: Android 1.5
Skype: Hub
The Depth Of Your Friendships At Twitter
Goal: A Billion People On Twitter
Search Come Full Circle: That Human Element
Sites That Pay You To Blog
Five Years Of Gmail: What Would Gsus Do?
The Search Results, The Links, The Inbox, The Stream
Fractals: Apple, Windows 95, Netscape, Google, Facebook, Twitter
I Talked To Google Through Twitter And It Worked Like Magic
Cisco Unified Computing System: To Tidy Up Data Centers
NYTM 03/09/09: Fashion Institute of Technology
Jeff Jarvis: Bold Restructuring
Twitter And The Time Dimension
What Should Facebook Do
TweetDeck, Power Twitter, Twitter Globe, Better Than Facebook
NYTM Mailing List Continued Controversy
TCC: Twitter Community College
Twitter Tips: It's A Bird, It's A Bird
NY Tech MeetUp Mailing List Web 5.0 Controversy
Web 5.0 Is Da Bomb
Competing For the Web 3.0 Definition
NY Tech MeetUp: 02/03/09
Conceptually Diligent: Web 5.0 Is Repackaging Hello
Onto Digital Publishing
Mitch Kapor Now Following Me On Twitter
Plenty Of Fish: Online Dating King
Defining Web 4.0
I Get Twitter
Indra Nooyi: Power Woman
Yahoo: The Original Dot Com
Craig Silverstein

Contents 2005-2008

Contents 2005-2008

Apple's Mobile Space: Sizzling
Vint Cerf, Abdul Kalam, Larry Ellison
Mind Blowing
Diller Country, Month 2
Microsoft, Google, Facebook: NY Tech MeetUp Has Arrived
Silicon City
Nic Is Back
Open Coffee MeetUp: New Location
The Unfacebook
Money For Yahoo And Money For Google
Dell Memo
Entrepreneurs: Spikes
Bear Stearns: An Investment Bank
Web 5.0: Face Time
Search: Much Is Lacking
Enter The Titans: AMD Smacked By Intel
A Web 3.0 Manifesto
Nic Butterworth's Open Coffee MeetUp
Scott 2.0, MeetUp.com 2.0
Dell, HP, Apple
Michael Dell
Larry Ellison
Google Books: Primitive
PC
Carly Fiorina: The Academy Awards Of Business: Photos
Carly Fiorina: "The Academy Awards Of Business"
Early Stage Venture Capital
Google Audio, Google Office
The Next Search Engine
Google Video
Google: Free, Wireless Internet Access, Pay Per View Video
Yahoo Phone, Google Office, Google Finance
Are You A Fonero?
Kosmix: Desi Pride
Email, Search, News
Memo To Bill Gates
xMax
Free Wireless Broadband, Reenergized Microsoft
Google's To Do List Keeps Growing
China, India And The World
In Defense Of Google Digitizing Books
Google's Corporate Transparency
Google And Languages
Vonage And WiMax
Social Networking: Where The Internet Comes Down From The Clouds
Wi-Mesh
Superfast Cable Broadband And The Rest Of The Daily Soup
Into the Nitty Gritty Of WiMax
The WiMax Appeal
Google Again
The $100 Computer
Google Video Has Hit The Docks
Internet Phones, Video Blogging, Nano
Google And Browsers And More
Not Hardware, Not Software, But Connectivity
Google: Poised To Be The Number One Software Company In The World

Feedburner Jump: 6 To 31

31 is not 3,100 or 31,000 but it is a big jump from six, or three before that. And it happened overnight. I have no obvious explanation except that perhaps I am getting more search engine traffic. Quality visitors who find exactly what they were looking for end up subscribing. That is what I am guessing.

Netizen Is No Spam Blog
Best Way To Increase Traffic To Your Blog
Taking The Number 2 Spot On Google Search For Donut Android
Hitting Number 4 For Google Search Results on Cupcake Android
What Just Happened?

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Facebook's Ad Space Is Different

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I have never doubted Facebook will make gobbles of money. And I have been perfectly comfortable with their scaling the service first. Scale it first, worry about revenue later. None of Facebook's early investors have come across as impatient. Zuckerberg himself came out a few days earlier saying he is in no hurry to take the company public. That perhaps is a nod to the bad shape economy, but also to the fact that with or without the economy Facebook is not ready yet.

Facebook Faceoff Firefox

Facebook is different from Google and it is different from Twitter. Facebook came after Google and before Twitter in the genealogy of things tech.

I think the Facebook site is pretty nifty in terms of technology, I mean look at that font size. But Facebook's number one contribution is not the technology, it is the social graph, as the Facebookers like to call it. It is not search like it is for Google, it is not the stream like it is for Twitter, it is the social graph.

Facebook does not compete with Twitter. Facebook is better off taking the social graph concept to new levels. Okay, so I can stay in touch with my friends through Facebook regardless of if they are in the same town or country or not, but can I deepen my existing friendships through Facebook, can I have social concentric circles? Not all friends are equal. Some are inner circle friends, some are not so inncer circle. Can I have that on Facebook? Can I have a core of status updates meant only for immediate family?

Fractals: Apple, Windows 95, Netscape, Google, Facebook, Twitter

In digging through the data and making sense of a user's social connections and social activities, Facebook stands to create that special ad space. Google's attitude is, if you did a search on smartphones, maybe I should show you ads on smartphones, and you will click on one of the ads and make me some money. Facebook's attitude will be, you have been interacting with Iqbal and 10 others more frequently than with any of your other 500 Facebook friends, and Iqbal just bought a smartphone, I think you will too if given the opportunity, what if I show you an ad for a smartphone, or better, what if I get Iqbal to show you an ad for the very smartphone he just bought? Let him brag about it. Let me stay out of it.

What Should Facebook Do

That is lucrative ad space. Facebook will keep getting a better and better idea of any user's social graph over time. And the better it is, more defined its ad space is, and more lucrative that ad space. It is new and it is different. It sure is early stage. But once they get onto it, I think they are going to be minting money. Facebook is going to take the idea of online shopping to a whole different level.

TweetDeck, Power Twitter, Twitter Globe, Better Than Facebook

I for one can imagine Facebook becoming bigger than China. It might take a few years, but it will get there. It is okay if it takes more than a few years, if it takes a decade, that's fine too.

Microsoft, Google, Facebook: NY Tech MeetUp Has Arrived

My long held Facebook fantassy has been that it should not just be a place where you keep in touch with people you are already friends with, it should also be a place where you meet new people to become friends with. Facebook added a Like button. How about adding a Hello button? We might not know each other, but what if I want to say hello?

The Unfacebook
Facebook

And how about Facebook Enterprise? Could the site offer team building tools?

Facebook needs sociologists, and ethnographers and anthropologists and social activists as much as it needs programmers and technologists. It is a social graph company not a tech graph company.

In The News

Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships BusinessWeek Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendships ...... For social scientists, Watts says, this flood of data could be as transformative as Galileo's telescope was for the physical sciences ..... Tailoring offers based on friends' responses helped lift the average click rate from 0.9% to 2.7%. Although 97.3% of the people surfed past the ads, the click rate still tripled. ....... Friendship data promise insights into not only the marketplace but also the corporation. Researchers can trace the hidden networks ........ One key laboratory for IBM is its internal social network called Beehive, in which nearly 60,000 ........ Each new friend plugs an IBM worker into another sphere of knowledge and human contacts. ...... while each of us likely will switch jobs seven or eight times in our careers, we continue to build a network of friends that can sustain us. ...... LinkedIn's Hoffman ..... has 1,864 contacts on LinkedIn. ..... the contacts outside of our close friendships are more likely to lead us to new opportunities. Their networks have less overlap and extend into different areas. ........ trading information, creating alliances, doing favors ....... the value in online friendship is poised to grow.
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Unemployment: Worse Than it Looks
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Netizen Is No Spam Blog

A Google robot flagged my blog, a Google human unflagged it. All's well that ends well.



Google: Tweet Me Baby One More Time

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• Google: Tweet Me Baby One More Time
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Best Way To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

Mark Penn says in his famous Wall Street Journal article that at 100,000 unique visits per month, a blogger hits 75K in income. There is a suggestion that there is a direct correlation between how much traffic you get and how much you make as a blogger. So how do you go about increasing traffic for your blog?

There are three kinds of traffic:

1. Search Traffic
2. Referring Sites
   
3. Direct Traffic
   

If you focus solely on content creation and engage in no other marketing effort, all your traffic is going to come from search engines. If you become inactive for any length of time, you are still going to get residual traffic. Most of that likely might be search engine traffic, except if you get residual traffic of the other two kinds from your previous marketing efforts.

It is fundamental that you use Google Analytics or a similar tool to see how much and what kind of traffic you are getting. The tool also tells you of the keywords people use to feed the search engines to end up at your site, and what pages they visit. This helps you discover your niche, and to create ever more content for that particular niche. For me right now that seems to be Android.

• The Android Architecture
• Android Netbook
• Donut Android: Android 2.0
  
• Android
  
• Taking The Number 2 Spot On Google Search For Donut Android
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• Cupcake: Android 1.5

More specifically "donut android" and "cupcake android." For those two phrases my blog for now shows up on the first page of Google search results. That is prime real estate. The reason I have to hone in that niche makes sense at many levels to me.

1. When I write new blog posts on Android, content creation and marketing are not two different activities. They are one and the same.
   
2. Android is no cottage industry. It is not some sub sub sub topic. It just might end up being the top technology news for this year.
   
3. Android so totally fits into my IC vision and my startup. The more I learn about Android, the better for me. I don't mind getting paid to learn. (Google's Newest Venture: Google Ventures) I plot every day to go back to working on my startup full time. Android is fundamental to the IC vision. The ground - operating system - itself has to move for the vision to become reality.

I feel lucky that the topic in technology that I find most fascinating right now is also my blog's prime niche according to Google Analytics. And I got told of that niche right after my first Android blog post. I find that amazing. My respect for Google's algorithms grew. And when Google gave me the number two spot after my first Donut Android blog post, my respect for the search engine really grew. (Taking The Number 2 Spot On Google Search For Donut Android)

Search engine traffic I think is the best kind, but working on the other two does not take away from your search engine traffic, quite the opposite, so don't ignore the other two either.

If I am a tech blogger, it makes sense that I visit TechCrunch, for example, or Mashable. And if I am going to visit anyways, why not participate in the comments sections? It takes but a few seconds. And because your name gets hyperlinked to your blog, those comments sections start sending a little traffic your way. What is there to complain?

Contrary to the stereotype, blogging is a social activity. You have to belong to blogging and online communities around your interests. You have to forge friendships in the blogosphere. And forging friendships with bloggers who are not so big name increases your chances of them putting you on their blogrolls. After traffic, those backlinks are what jack up your google rank. Those backlinks are key. And content creation alone will not do the work for you, especially during the early stages when you are still wondering how you hit 1,000 page hits a day.

Twitter is micro-blogging. And there is another: that would be the comments sections of other blogs. Got to participate.

Twitter is another great place to socialize. Don't just have a list of people you follow and followers. Got to make some time and visit their profile pages and respond to some of their tweets. These are real living, breathing people. Get to know some of them, or many of them if possible.

And there is direct traffic. Feedburner lets you put a box at your blog that gives visitors the option to subscribe to your blog with their email addresses. Seth Godin claims that mailing list is how he gets most of his traffic. But he probably became a star blogger first. But before you become famous and other people know you, when you are a small fish blogger, there are people you know. Once in a while it is okay to send out emails to people you know sharing a blog post or two with them. Look Ma, no hands!

1. Focus on great content creation.
   
2. Find your niche, and create great content for that particular niche, but also constantly be diversifying. You don't want to go out of business when one rainy day Google revised its algorithms and your blog ended up in Siberia.
   
3. Blogging is a social activity. Be in a habit of visiting other blogs and participating in their comments sections in meaningful ways.
4. Strive to generate a band of loyal visitors, people who want to lap up every blog post you put out because, oh, you are just so wonderful.
   

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• BlogertizeWorld : Is That Really Profitable For Bloggers ? (techpluto.com)
• Blog Tips (for Bloggers Who Have Been Around a While) (problogger.net)
• Visitor Statistics After 1 Year of Business (mt-soft.com.ar)
• How To Grow Your Blog Through Customer Development (techcrunch.com)
• Incremental changes rolling in for Simple Thoughts (taragana.com)
• Android Co-Founder Miner Reportedly Tapped to Help Run New $100 Million Google Venture Fund (xconomy.com)
• Google, SEO, Publishers and Spam (webmetricsguru.com)
• Google's Publishers Advisory Council Raises Concerns over Professional Media Page Ranks (poynter.org)
• Newspapers Demand Google Welfare (gawker.com)
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• Twitter surged pass Digg, LinkedIn and NYTimes - and that's just visits to its website (isiria.wordpress.com)
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• Promote a Blog Post [Day #3 - 31DBBB] (problogger.net)
• The Bloggers Overtaking The Lawyers (Insert Joke Here) (blogherald.com)
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The Android Architecture

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• Android Netbook
• Donut Android: Android 2.0
  
• Android
  
• Taking The Number 2 Spot On Google Search For Donut Android
• Hitting Number 4 For Google Search Results on Cupcake Android
• Donut Android: Windows 95, Android 2009?
• Cupcake Android Delay Reason: Donut Android
• Google Analytics Says I Am Paul Krugman Friend, Cupcake Android Expert
• Cupcake: Android 1.5

Just take a look.

• All your stuff is saved. Contacts you add on your Android phone are automatically saved in your Gmail account that you are used to accessing over your laptop. So you can lose that mobile phone and not lose anything. Get a new phone, sign in, pick up where you last left.
  
• You can take your photos and videos from your mobile device straight to your online destinations, in Google's case Picassa and YouTube. You don't have to download them to your desktop and then upload them online. That right there is further liberation from the desktop. And of course the editing happens online.

Many human beings come with a pair of legs. We move around. A lot. The mobile space was always very important. Technology is catching up. But it would have been a minor disaster to realize the mobile space was a whole different silo from the big rectangle of your laptop.

That seamlessness from the mobile space to, what will we call it, the immobile space is key. It has to feel like one continuum. When mobile and not so mobile, we are still dealing with the same ecosystem of information and people.

The Android architecture has that seamlessness in mind. That seamlessness is at the heart of the Android vision. That is also why the architecture is open. You have the Open Handset Alliance. Android is open source. It is free. Just like Google search is free. The business model perhaps is to create a vibrant mobile space, get people to start using the basic services like Gmail and calendar, and then cash in in the mobile ad space which promises to be huge measured by any yardstick.

On The Web

HowStuffWorks "Google Android Architecture" the Android OS as a software stack. Each layer of the stack groups together several programs that support specific operating system functions. ..... the kernel ..... memory management programs, security settings, power management software and several hardware drivers. ...... libraries. ...... the media framework library supports playback and recording of various audio, video and picture formats .... runtime layer includes a set of core Java libraries -- Android application programmers build their apps using the Java programming language. ....... A virtual machine is a software application that behaves as if it were an independent device with its own operating system. ..... The Android OS uses virtual machines to run each application as its own process. ...... no application is dependent upon another. .. if an application crashes, it shouldn't affect any other applications running on the device. ..... simplifies memory management. ........... the application framework. ....... programs that manage the phone's basic functions like resource allocation, telephone applications, switching between processes or programs and keeping track of the phone's physical location. ...... Think of the application framework as a set of basic tools with which a developer can build much more complex tools. ........ the applications ...... the user interface.
Android The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Android Architecture
Ideas 2.0: Google's Android Architecture
Code Beach: Android Architecture Overview
Google Android Architecture Overview : iPhone Killer
Curiosity is bliss: Google Android architecture
Android Architecture Overview (Android forum at JavaRanch)
Android An Open Platform For Mobile Devices
HyperFuture » Blog Archive » Android architecture video - Part 1 of 3

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