Friday, November 20, 2009

Chrome

For those of you that don't know much about Google Chrome, and the coming revolution, here is your primer.



This is Web 3.0.

Posted by Ryan P Giles at 5:18 AM

12 comments:

Bitner,  November 20, 2009 6:24 AM  

Anybody else concerned about Google's access to all the information - personal and otherwise - that resides in the cloud?

Chris,  November 20, 2009 7:04 AM  

You know, I thought of that. Maybe. I'll certainly be cautious at first, but their bread and butter is going to be security and they've certainly shown themselves to be a competent company.

Josh,  November 20, 2009 10:01 AM  

I had the same reaction. However, I'm intrigued. The concept sounds pretty sexy.

Bitner,  November 20, 2009 10:09 AM  

No question Google is 'competent.'

They're a bit more than that.

My question is more to the ethics side and I don't know that any company has ever had access to as much information as Google has and will have. This is unprecedented. Their ability to acquire booming ideas and innovate on their own does not equate to an ability to be ethical.

I'm not calling them UNethical, just suggesting that competence or innovation does not predict ethical business.

This goes back a lot farther than the OS, too. And it will be a massive debate in the next decade, imo.

StupidBike,  November 20, 2009 12:21 PM  

if you think your info is not already in the cloud, you are mistaken.

This concept is not revolutionary and it is not new. And it will not change everything.

What google has is too much time on their hands 10,000 employees in Palo Alto, what the hell are they doing? Because there are only a few coming up with Ideas like Chrome and that other emaily like thing.

I call it a bubble, that zI expect will burst within 18 months.

And oh yeah, apple already does this.

Josh,  November 20, 2009 12:32 PM  

I think SB has a point regarding us already being in the clouds. I'm an avid GMAIL user and Google stores every email I've ever sent or received and I can access it whenever I want, which I really like. Technically, they would also have access to that same information. So, confidential emails aren't really confidential. Any attachments, such as photos or documents, would also be stored on their servers.

SB, how has Apple already done this? I'm a Mac and iPhone owner, but I don't see the parallel.

Bitner,  November 20, 2009 12:40 PM  

Hence, my comment that this goes back a lot farther than the lauch of OS.

Thanks to RG, I've been a Gmailer since the beta days. I love me some Gmail (and many other google products).

But I am concerned that it's already out of control in terms of information privacy and we just haven't seen it become a problem yet for/with Google.

StupidBike,  November 20, 2009 12:56 PM  

apple, in terms of multiple devices, one account and quick boot up. And quick connections, already done.

googles core competency is its search engine, which is good enough for the average consumer and brilliant from a business perspective.

But when they go out to these other 'places' it is more of a 'me too' vs 'me first' They may do some of it better, but not all.

Chris,  November 20, 2009 3:23 PM  

Josh, Apple does it but at a cost of a on hunny dollar a year MobileMe account.

Gladwell has an interesting corollary to the information age (e.g., social networking, emailing, texting, etc.) that I think might apply given the very valid privacy concerns you mention, Bitner. He brought up the point that now that most forms of electronic communication have lost since lost their feeling of fun, we invest less energy in them (Remember writing fatty emails back as a freshman when you truly discovered high speed internet? Compare that to the two-liners we usually send out now). Anyway, the thinking is that now we'll rely more again on real, actual conversations.

I'm thinking that the cost of convenience in the cloud will be that we'll learn to be more selective as to what we put out there, favoring more person-to-person (or at least vocal) conversations over electronic ones. In short, this is another cause for the pendulum to swing the other way a bit.

Bitner,  November 20, 2009 7:06 PM  

I think that is a very good observation.

Adam - have you noticed a reduction in your wordiness? ;)

Adam,  November 21, 2009 8:37 AM  

No.

Bitner,  November 21, 2009 8:54 AM  

ha! very well played.

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