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Google's Future Cloud Service: Project Glasses Demo Video
Google is adding more and more data center capacity. What are they doing besides search, Youtube, and GMail.
Check out this video for a future Google Cloud Service: Project Glasses.
Here are more details if you would like to read instead of watch.
Google wants developers to take a leap with Project Glass
Sergey Brin’s extreme sports demonstration of Project Glass at Google I/O will likely go down in history as one of the most daring tech conference stunts of all time: The Google co-founder stormed on stage Wednesday, interrupting the regular keynote to show off Google’s wearable computing project by joining a live Hangout session with a bunch of skydivers, who proceeded to jump out of a plane.
It's hard to make money in Mobile, China's Smartphone market
Now it may seem obvious that a small screen limits the amount of advertisements that can be displayed which then effects the revenue possible from mobile devices. In addition with iMessage and others creation of messaging services SMS is under threat as well.
WSJ has a post that describes some of these conditions occuring in China. Tencent is threatening the mobile carriers the same way iMessage is.
Among the biggest losers could be the telecom companies. HSBC analyst Tucker Grinnan estimates that SMS (short-messaging services) accounted for about 15% of China Mobile'sCHL -1.41% revenue in 2011. That's under threat from Internet-based messaging systems like Tencent's Weixin. From zero users at the beginning of 2011, Weixin grew to 100 million in March 2012.
It's no coincidence that China's SMS traffic per subscriber declined 7% over the same period, or that Internet giant Tencent is reorganizing its business to focus more on mobile.
Mobile ads as well.
China's social-networking and portal sites like RenrenRENN -4.11% and Sina Corp. SINA -5.16%are also struggling to monetize a growing number of mobile users.
Mary Meeker's 2012 Internet Trends Presentation, watch out data center industry Mobile will change your world
Mobile is probably going to be one of the greenest effects on data centers. Why? The market penetration will dwarf the desktops, yet the lower mobile ad margins put huge pressures to be more efficient. In addition all kinds of things are being re-imagined for mobile devices.
I was slow to move to Mobile. i didn't get an iPhone until the 3GS. The kids got an iPad, not me. I stuck to my IBM laptop. Now I have an iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus, Kindle Fire, latest iPad, and MacBook Air. Mobile is where I spend more time thinking about new services. Data Centers are critical to the mobile solution. The way of fat clients is the past. Mobile = Highly Connected cost effective energy efficient data centers.
Mary Meeker gave a presentation at WSJ's all things d. The presentation is here.
All things d has a post that gives you a good summary.
My cut at what I found interesting is as follows.
Let's start with the bad news Mobile is 5X lower eCPMs vs. Desktop
Average revenue per user 1.7-5x lower on mobile vs. Desktop.
Google's cost per click is referenced as limiting revenue growth.
Apple's revenue growth is good news for its business model.
The change is illustrated by the past vs. present.
Page 36 starts a series of other re-imagination.
If you agree with Mary Meeker's questions, ask the questions are you rowing the same direction?
For the past year, I have been rowing in the same direction Mark Meeker describes and it is so much easier. Are you ready to change?
A guy who lives on e-mail goes from Blackberry to iPhone and back to Blackberry
Most people who still use a Blackberry live on e-mail. Here is a post by a reporter for ZDNet that explains his woes going from Blackberry to iPhone and back to Blackberry.
Saying goodbye to my iPhone, the data hog
After flirting with an iPhone for a month, here's why I switched back to a BlackBerry. The iPhone was fun, don't get me wrong, but I know where my loyalties lie.
Here is the author's usage that gives you an idea of his perspective.
I get between 200-250 emails on an average day. I receive roughly 20-30 tweets or direct messages a day. I get dozens of Facebook notifications, calendar alarms, and numerous phone calls. Each and every time, my BlackBerry vibrates for a whole second, and the LED notifier flashes. Yet even with this, my battery lasts two days without needing to charge, while an iPhone seemingly lasts for only 12-14 hours without charge, but only if small animals are not sacrificed to the Apple gods at regular intervals.
This isn't a story you often hear. The author closes with his conclusion he wants a Blackberry.
My business and work partner for a month, my iPhone. It was fun, don't get me wrong, but I know where my loyalties lie. And perhaps that's what makes the general consumer market so different. We want, we take, and we rarely focus on what we actually need. I need my BlackBerry, and while I still want an iPhone, I know full well it will take time before it needs me.
Unfortunately for RIM this is a minority.