Rethinking Google

If Google’s mission in life is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”, and Google’s main source of income is advertising revenue, in traditional web as well as non-traditional means outside of the web, does that mean that you can also interpret Google’s mission as “to organize the world’s information, make it universalle accessible and useful, and put ads in them?”

The Ugly Side Of Blogging

Blogs are truly wonderful things aren’t they? I didn’t always think that way though. I remember when blogs first came out one of the first ones I knew who took to it immediately was one of my first editors Pam. To say that Pam is a friend is kind of stupid really, she’s way more than that. In a way, she’s like family, like that annoying kid sister whom inspite of the fact you occasionally find difficult and have arguments with, remain close to just because.

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webdesigning & developing

After the writing bug of the past two weeks, I’ve been bitten by the design bug this past weekend, the m|ph blog’s latest header being my latest victim. I change the header to reflect the latest cover every month, and this one took approximately 3~5 hours spread over three days to do (not counting the time actually dreaming up the design), partly because I repair other things along the way, such as the Google Search box which was improved by Google these past few months and therefore deserved an update.

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a crying shame

Making the rounds of the maillists these days is mediag8way’s linuxworld, which promises to be an exciting event, with 4 conference tracks that include introduction to business applications, more technical and systems admininstration, “meet the experts” (which should be interesting in itself), and an advocacy / public interest part which is open to the public.

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would you say yes to a Google OS?

if google told you today that: “hey since you like our services so much, why not check out our operating system as well?” would you do it?

chances are, a lot of people would say yes, and that is why I think Google might just go for it – the unspeakable – the unthinkable – make their own OS.

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