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if we can imagine something like Android or open source platform not now but maybe 5 10 years from now open source eventually dominates every Market it enters right
over the next 10 to 20 years I think that this centralization is essentially a temporary Arbitrage of the network and CPU and memory speed of aggregating all these things
if you are a Google user I believe you will eventually be an Android User
open source eventually dominates every Market it enters
I think that this centralization is essentially a temporary Arbitrage of the network and CPU and memory speed
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Verify at source ↗The most interesting company, I think, of the past 20, 30 years is Google, because they are web native. They have the technical capacity to eat the whole web and process it and do amazing things with it. And part of the reason that the social networks didn't is because that's a lot harder to spider a thousand sites and create the graph between them. It's much easier just for everyone to put stuff in your database. ... So Google is probably one of the companies that could create a good user exper
I mean Yahoo mail is the anchor of Yahoo absolutely
my colleague Tony Schneider uh oost which became became yah yah that's been probably one of the most Acquisitions
I think Yahoo has been a smart acquirer they have flick delicious good good Acquisitions
I think it's actually a very unobtrusive way to do advertising um perhaps you know they also helped think Yahoo's seing some declining overall usage helps the numbers there
I really like native advertising like the idea of something where the ad looks just like the thing that you actually want to get right that's what's beautiful
I think in the past the priorities have changed yeah I'm sure they went into each of those with the right intentions and in some cases grew them hugely beyond what they were
they've never been good at Community I mean flicker after it got bought delicious after it got bought it's cool for a few years Geo cities yeah but they wound up killing those things they just have never had in their DNA a really good job at building Community
they have not Yahoo has not stood for user generated content at ever well to be fair they had flicker delicious upcoming okay right yeah they just had they bought some of those assets and screwed them up
I think you Who's acting smarter than they have in the past if they're smart they won't try to push any advertising they would I would have if I were them I would remove the current advertising and just let it grow as a as a user product
I think it's tough um I mean leadership changes priorities change cost change um these things can all affect the future of a acquired product
Marissa is a unique executive I mean you respect Marissa yes so she's unique so maybe she wound she think you think that we're reached a we've reached a new moment in entrepreneurship
you get a certain amount of time for them not to [ __ ] with the asset and then they eventually do
it's very impressive that Marissa was able to convince David car who's a great entrepreneur to go for it I think it speaks to her Charisma as well
it's great to see you know what the folks behind the Service uh are going to do with the new resources both corporate like under the ages of Yahoo but also the personal resources
the opportunity is much much longer than that and so they sold for too little in my opinion they could have kept going
it's really embarrassing that he don't you think had to be the one who made cloud computing work I mean shouldn't that have been IBM or Microsoft that should have been Google or Yahoo
you also have the traditional we're a platform now the traditional tension with platform developers tends to be that they cherry-pick the very best applications it's Microsoft and office right right over time this is by far the most profitable thing being built on the Windows platform they cherry-pick it they kill everything else it's a hugely
I would talk to friends who said oh Yahoo that's for old people right so Yahoo photos could be the most Innovative product in the world if they think it's for old people sure they're not going to use it
when you put a Hollywood guy or a businesswoman you know and not a product person in charge of an internet company I don't think you can compete
if I was running Yahoo I would have taken the people who made Flicker and delicious and put them in charge of creating a social network and a video service and all these great things and what did they do they chased the smartest brains out of the place who all wrote These scathing goodbye letters I mean it's just unbelievable that it was never a product Centric company
if I could have run Yahoo five years ago right um what I would have done was open source a platform as soon as possible CU they were doing a lot of interesting Acquisitions oh yes flicker delicious all these sorts of different things the best and in theory these things could be the Twitter's and the Facebooks of the day right but the problem with all these Acquisitions is the off and we have the same problem the integration cost
it should have been Yahoo in my opinion yeah I mean that it really the guy who sells books is going to make cloud storage system work it's it's really embarrassing for Yahoo for Jerry Yang
we have a popular iPhone app and it's a it's a very frustrating development platform right but they did include to their credit a monetization system to actually sell software
iPhone is by far the best platform I've ever used in a mobile device I love it
over the next 10 to 20 years I think that this centralization is essentially a temporary Arbitrage of the network and CPU and memory speed of aggregating all these things
if I had to pick one I'd say Jeff Bezos oh really huge inspiration because I feel like Amazon makes very long very initially unpopular and very smart bets I agree 100% um things like well allowing other people sell stuff on their store yeah everything they get panned for Amazon web services the Kindle almost universally everything they do in the beginning is like they stock takes a dip everything like that two years later everyone's like oh
if I'm building on go go Google app engine and Google buys me I imagine they just like flip a switch internally and all of a sudden I'm running on the Google servers and not paying for it anymore yeah now free instantly scalable yeah that's beautiful
the guy who sells books is going to make cloud storage system work it's it's really embarrassing for Yahoo for Jerry Yang and for for Larry and Sergey and these guys
I mean Google did wonderfully saying servers are unreliable we're going to get the cheapest ones possible and just expect them to fail
if we can imagine something like Android or open source platform not now but maybe 5 10 years from now open source eventually dominates every Market it enters right
I just got the Droid phone I've been playing with it how do you like it it is outstanding if you are a Google user because you click on does anybody here have the Droid yet anyone Vier one person well it came out I think only on Friday uh so uh you type in your Gmail or I have a custom Google domain like a hosted domain so I type in my Jason calanis and the entire phone now has my contacts you know my schedule and my email already synced which is the biggest pain in the ass on your blackberry
if you are into Google's applications Maps um and whatnot reader it just works beautifully
if you are a Google user I believe you will eventually be an Android User
Google has you know they have multiple copies of the entire internet in Ram right and they figured out how to make this work
open source eventually dominates every Market it enters
I think that this centralization is essentially a temporary Arbitrage of the network and CPU and memory speed
you have to wait 6 weeks to use a piece of software
we have a popular iPhone app and it's a very frustrating development platform
it's such a nice city you'll live under the dictatorship for now
iPhone is by far the best platform I've ever used in a mobile device I love it