Facts and Figures. The world of google.

Februar 26th, 2010 • 3 comments Allgemein
Tags: Brands, Business, Cool, Diagram, google, Strategy, Tech, visualization, World

Twitter is crowded with marketing people. And what do marketing people really, really like? Right, statistics. Among loads of animated short movies which stage facts & figures from the web, we have seen a lot of wallpaper-like statistical info visualizations lately lately. First I thought “Nice”, until I found out that pretty much everyone nowadays puts his facts and figures into these kinds of banners. Anyway, I think this visualization is one of the better ones. It was created by Pingdom and tries to integrate many interesting facts about google in one place. Interesting!

Bring the Noise. Why google Buzz will Fail.

Februar 11th, 2010 • 15 comments Social, Social Business
Tags: Brands, Business, Facebook, google, google Buzz, google wave, Social Networks, Strategy, Tech, Trends, Twitter, World

Two days ago google announced google Buzz, a new socialnetworky add-on to its well known and beloved gmail service. As expected, google is trying once more to advance into enemy territory – social networking. Since its foundation the company is great in search and media but it sucks big time when it comes to content and real, human interactions.

So, yesterday morning I found this google Buzz Button in my gmail account. And what I saw next was nice but two years too late.

One day with google Buzz

google Buzz tries to do anything at once and doesn’t do anything really good. Basically it’s a mixture of twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and Foursquare. That does not sound too bad, unfortunately I have no idea where google is in this concept.

Apart from the lack in own, new ideas the first finding is – the UX is horrible. Years ago google was on the forefront of UX design. But google Buzz almost looks like google Wave light. Do you remember google Wave? Sure you do (I have 1 gazillion invites left if you like). In short, google Buzz combines at least four specialized interoperable social services in one shitty interface, spices it up with even worse than ususal privacy flaws, integrates it into gmail an calls it Buzz.
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Online Advertising. Humans bow down to google.

Oktober 27th, 2009 • Brands, Business, Media
Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business, Diagram, google, Media, Strategy, Trends, World

O….kay, google, way to go. (All figures in 1,000$)

Found on Silicon Alley Insider

Usability. Apple, Google and you.

Oktober 12th, 2009 • Allgemein
Tags: Apple, Funny, google, Interfaces, Usability, visual, World

Unfortunately this is pretty likely 100% true.

(From Stuff that happens via Scott Monty)

google Wave. Come on google, give me an invite.

Oktober 3rd, 2009 • Allgemein
Tags: Diy, google, google wave

Hey google, I am still waiting for my google Wave invite. While I wait I watch a couple of videos of what google Wave actually is and write articles about what I expect it to be…But others obviously have the same problem. (via lifehacker and kwerfeldein)

google Wave. The last night of email?

September 30th, 2009 • 8 comments Allgemein, Tools, Trends
Tags: Business, Cool, google, google wave, Idea, innovation, Strategy, Tools

It’s only one more day until google Wave launches. 100,000 users will be the first to receive an invite and I hope I will be among them (try to get your invite here). Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and (mobile) collaboration. A wave will be both, conversation and a document where people can interact, share and integrate formats of all sorts (pics, videos, audio…) – and everything real time.

By what we know about google Wave it might really be a game changer and redefine collaboration and the social realm (think Twitter not Facebook). Waves will come with drag-and-drop functionality, be embeddable, integrate multiple formats etc and be open source. That means, developers will create applications for google Wave. In short: google Wave may the answer to the question ‘How would email look like if it was invented in 2009′. And I am looking forward to seeing what that means when it gets live.

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Google Wave for iPhone. Probably…really…kind of…the next big thing.

August 7th, 2009 • Allgemein
Tags: Apps, google, google wave, Ideas, iPhone, Mobile, Tech, Trends

Every other week there is one ‘next big thing’. In fact, I believe google Wave will be it. A couple of weeks ago (simultaneously to the rollout of Bing) this video appeared announcing Wave as google’s next Gen communication platform, combining fuctions of IM, twitter, Wikis, Social Networks in one real time app. The list of functions looks pretty stunning. But now the guys of thenextweb have gotten their hands on the first prototype of a mobile google Wave version using the stunning HTML5 functionalities built into the iPhone’s Safari Browser.

Watch and be amazed.