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twitter.com/nickbilton Atul Arora’s Twitter stream shows a constant flow of breaking technology news links. When I finish writing this blog post, I will Tweet it.
‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes
Levchin and Gurley Say That Next Big Company Will Capture The Interest Graph
Yesterday, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Googler and PayPal founder Max Levchin and Benchmark GP Bill Gurley discussed “game-changing technology” and the future of the Web. Emblematic of today’s mindset, they attacked this rather large topic by comparing the strengths and objectives of Google and Facebook, using the latter’s jaw-dropping stats (500+ million users, 1 in every 13 people on Earth logs into Facebook each day) and its promotion of the social graph as a measure of what’s to come. Levchin said that Facebook is fast becoming the new social white pages, i.e. when you don’t know where someone is on the Web, you go to Facebook to find and connect with them.
Funny: each time someone talks about the interest graph, they use pearls as analogy.... by Feb 17
Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google : People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment — Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The spammers, scrapers, and SEO’ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning. (via Anil Dash’s nice roundup on the issue) I’ve been frustrated as well by Google’s apparent defeat by spam. It’s not a sudden issue — it’s been gradually worsening for a few years.
By Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist