Quote: The Two Types Complacency
June 7, 2011
Quote to note: Navigate to “Stephen Elop’s Nokia Adventure.” The subject is not about search and content processing, but it may apply to some of those in the market. Here’s the quote attributed to Juha Akra,a Nokia personnel professional. The context for the remark was Nokia’s failure to respond to Apple’s and Google’s incursion into mobile phones:
“It was an ignorant complacency, not an arrogant complacency.”
From the shareholders point of view, does the distinction make a difference?
Stephen E Arnold, June 7, 2011
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Quote from the Google on UX, Not Advertising
May 30, 2011
Quote to note: I am equally skeptical about pundit pronouncements and big search company explanations. Combine the two and there is an opportunity for mischief and misunderstanding. First, navigate to “Google Denies ‘Freeze’ on Manual Search Controls.” The story reports that a pundit asserted one thing and the giant company counter asserted the opposite.
In the midst of this flummery, a really interesting quote from the giant company appears. Here she be: Google allegedly says:
…manual controls are necessary to improve the user experience in very limited cases, such as security concerns, legal issues and spam.
So algorithms do some of the work using inputs. Then humans make judgments and take actions to improve “user experience.” I wonder if some of those actions are designed to pump up revenues from advertising. Probably not.
Stephen E Arnold, May 30, 2011
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Intel and Its Google Chaos Question
May 27, 2011
Quote to note: I read “Intel CEO on Android Chaos, Apple Order.” In the midst of corporate flakery, an interesting quote, which I hope is semi accurate, was reported. Here it is:
“I think there is some growing pains that Android is going through…How do you create order out of chaos?”
Great question from a company whose product naming conventions baffle me. “K”?
Stephen E Arnold, May 27, 2011
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Quote: Google on Microsoft and the Mainframe
May 25, 2011
Quote to note. The juicy bit is in bold. The source is eWeek’s “Microsoft, Google Business-Cloud Battle Getting Vicious.”
But matching cloud-hosted services against their on-premises brethren, as Google likes to point out, can be construed as a case of apples-versus-oranges: an imperfect comparison, to say the least. “Comparing Google to legacy on-premises software makes no sense,” Andrew Kovacs, a Google spokesperson, wrote in an email to eWEEK. “It’s like questioning Microsoft’s market share in mainframe computers.” He also claimed that Google is “the leading choice of businesses for cloud email and collaboration, which is where the market is headed.”
Gtrat stuff.
Stephen E Arnold, May 25, 2011
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Managing Chaos: No Problem Allegedly
May 23, 2011
Quote to note: I read “Intel CEO on Android Chaos, Apple Order.” In the midst of corporate chatter, a heck of a quote surfaced; namely,
“I think there is some growing pains that Android is going through…How do you create order out of chaos?”
Stumps me.
Stephen E Arnold, May 23, 2011
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Quote to Note: Google and Customer Support
May 14, 2011
The story “Google AdSense Alternative? Lijit Thinks So” contained a passage that struck me as a quote to note. The write up talks about an alternative to Google’s AdSense called Lijit. AdSense, we learned, is aimed at large publishers. Lijit (a phonetization of “legitimate” colloquialized) offers a monetization. Lijit’s transaction volume is growing apace, up 74 percent since the fourth quarter of 2010. Now here’s the quote to note:
[Todd Vernon, the CEO and founder of Lijit] is quoted as saying:
“What we hear, time and time again, is, ‘when there’s something wrong, I can’t get a hold of Google… they only provide me error messages… I can’t actually talk to a human,’” he said.
Oh, oh. This type of comment comes at a time when Google is pushing into the enterprise with a low cost, Windows-killer Chromebook. What happens when a user or an information technology professional has a question? Is a new service business about the blossom?
Stephen E Arnold, May 14, 2011
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Quote to Note: Puppy Kicking Technocrats, Cease and Desist
April 11, 2011
This is a quote to note and a short honk. First, point your browser bloat machine at “Microsoft Has Lost the War to Linux.” Next, note the quite slick phrasing; for example, “somewhat strange interview”, “Linux based Android”, and “from the Vole” (borrowed from a somewhat more crisp blog by the way). Finally, consider this passage:
He said that he didn’t care about Microsoft these days. It used to be Linux’s big rival, but now it’s kind of like kicking a puppy.
“Kicking a puppy”. Slam dunk. The only problem is the persistence of such non entities as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. But the “kicking a puppy” is T shirt material. Now we just need a better name for Solr. Maybe “puppykicker”?
Stephen E Arnold, April 11, 2011
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Yahoo Cranks Out a Beyond Search Quote to Note
January 4, 2011
Yikes, more Yahoo drama. You can read the scoop on the layoffs in some “real” publications like this one. Here’s the statement from the top Yahooligan, Carol Bartz that I have selected as a quote to note:
…it’s no secret that we’re cutting investment in underperforming and non-core products so we can focus on our strengths (like email, the homepage, search, mobile, advertising, content and more).
Okay, search. Yowza.
Stephen E Arnold, January 4, 2010
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Quote to Note: Netflix Is Albania
December 16, 2010
I saw this quote in my hard copy of the dear old New York Times. The reference page is Section B1 (National Edition) Business page. The article with the alleged statement is “time Warner Views Netflix As a Fading Star.”
Here’s the alleged quote, attributed to Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner executive:
“It’s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world. I don’t think so.”
The mystery pronoun “it” refers to the success of Netflix, the streaming video service that recently put its goodies in the hands of Amazon’s cloud system. Yep, that’s the company whose cloud service went offline recently. The “take over the world” is ambiguous, but I interpreted the phrase to mean that Netflix (Albania) would not be able to control the real media industry.
I didn’t see a reference to Apple in the story whose online system embodied in hardware, software, and iTunes has had a reasonably significant impact on the music sector.
I really admire the metaphor. Netflix as Albania. That’s one place where I found the immigration procedure quite interesting. Lovely yard care in the smaller cities’ residential neighborhood as well.
Stephen E Arnold, December 16, 2010
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Quote to Note: Cannibal Surprise
November 14, 2010
Nifty quote caught my eye in “iPad Affecting Newspaper Sales.” Here’s the bit:
Murdoch said that the apps were “much more directly cannibalistic” than Web sites, as subscribers read the apps in a manner similar to how they read traditional newspapers. Web readers apparently consume their news somewhat differently. While he didn’t disclose sales numbers, Murdoch said that the newspapers affected include the Wall Street Journal, News of the World, and the Times of London.
I love the phrase “more cannibalistic”. Donner’s Pass, stranded mountain climbers, and … Hmmmm.
Stephen E Arnold, November 14, 2010
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