Facebook's Mobile-Only Users out number Desktop-Only

TechCrunch has a post highlighting the fact that Facebook’s Mobile-Only users out number Desktop-Only.  Now, when I build a service I try to go mobile-only, then think about how to support the Desktop users who are consumers.

The old world was desktops were for creating content, then mobile was for consuming.  For some services it has flipped.  Mobile is for content creation and desktop is for consuming the content created by a mobile user.

Facebook In The Age Of Mobile-Only

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Just 21% (268 million) of Facebook’s users access the service from desktop-only, and both that percentage and number are falling as Facebook grows, according to new stats fromFacebook’s Q1 2014 earnings report this week. Meanwhile Facebook’s mobile-only user countis now at 341 million, or 26.7% of its total userbase, and those figures are quickly climbing.

What this means is that if a Facebook feature doesn’t exist on mobile, it’s becoming less and less relevant.

Apple invites Today Show to tell its Green Data Center story

The green data center story is well known in the data center industry.  Google had 60 minutes tell its data center story.  Apple had Today TV show tell its green data center story.

TODAY   |  April 24, 2014

Tech giant goes green with renewable energy

Apple is moving to shrink its carbon footprint, building the nation’s largest privately owned solar farm to run its data center. NBC chief environmental correspondent  Anne Thompson reports.

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Skiing, Beer, Software - three of my favorite things to do

I am at Mt Bachelor ski area in Bend, OR for the kids ski race.

First stop was Boneyard Beer to fill the growlers.

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Talking software is kind of easy with a bunch of other skiers who are Microsoft working in Xbox, Office, and Windows.  This trip I went to see a software company HQ in Bend, OR that does some cool 3D graphics.

Kids will have three days of skiing and part of my job is take pictures.

Vic Gundotra Leaves Google, where will he go next?

Vic Gundotra’s departure from Google has hit the news today.  One day after Facebook announces record profits.  A coincidence or time to change to someone who can compete against Facebook?  It’s time to loop back to some ex-Microsoft friends who I worked with and reported to Vic at Microsoft and exchange some views.  Many of us have a different view of Vic working in his organization at Microsoft than his bigger than Life at Google.

New York Times (blog)

 

Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company

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Vic Gundotra, who aggressively led Google into the social world with the creation of Google+, is leaving the company. A Google spokesperson ...

Re/code hints at some of the issues.

Key to Gundotra’s often pugnacious approach with Google+ was the wonky idea of “circles,” where people could define who they want to share information with in different contexts, rather than all relationships being equal and two-sided, like Facebook’s notion of friends.

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While no Facebook killer, Google+ has most definitely become a powerful sharing and identification tool for users and, most of all, for Google. It, along with the success of Google I/O, also vaulted Gundotra into the powerful inner circle of Page, from which he now departs.

Where will Vic go next?  Re/code closes asking the same.

On his Google+ page, Gundotra’s introduction notes: “Fell in love with the power of software at age 11, and am still in love.” But in love with what now?

Presumably, we’ll see soon enough.

Greenpeace says Apple has done the most to Green its Data Center & Internet Ecosystem

Forbes has a post on Apple, Earth Day and Leadership.  In the post is a reference to Greenpeace.

Greenpeace spokesman and ‘Clicking Green’ Report co-author, David Pomerantz, states, “Apple has done the most of any data center operator to make its part of the internet green,”

Apple has chosen to take a leadership position and it looks like its PR machine is behind it as well.  Google’s data center footprint is bigger which makes it harder and its PR machine is not like Apple’s.  So much of the media are fanatical Apple users.  Don’t know many media people who are fanatical Android users.