Making lots of mo-oney!
According to Playfuls.com - Motorola will create a special button on many of their internet-optimized phones that will connect users directly to Google content.
No word yet on whether users will be able to post to Blogger - Google’s popular free blogging service - through their Motorola phones.
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Kamyar Shah 01.06.06 at 8:07 pm
I am not liking this. It seems like Google is becoming a monopoly; web domination is in no ones interest. I am not sure if it is in the bloggers’ spirit to parise such actions. But again, I am a capitalist with neo-liberal views. So, take it at face value.
http://consultancyissues.blogspot.com/
Teresa Valdez Klein 01.07.06 at 12:23 pm
Kamyar: I respectfully disagree. I don’t think that anyone can truly dominate the Web. I just think Google has the best ideas at the moment. The fact that most people out here have at least some kind of critical thinking skills tells me that we’ll never come to a moment when one company will run the entire Internet.
If there’s anything that troubles me about Google, it’s that they have access to a great deal of information about people. If they were an evil empire - and the jury’s still out on that - they could use that information for a number of unsavory purposes.
Kamyar Shah 01.08.06 at 6:36 am
I partially agree: there will never be a total dominance by one company. But keep in mind the history of local utilities, and it is not far fetched that a “ground floor and essential domainance” is just bad public policy. Further, the critical thinking of people never stopped MS, or others to create dominance either. I think Google’s leadership has shown it true face already: just look at some of the chat rooms with peoples complaints about Google Adword and Adsense– Google has proven iteslf as a company with no sense of public and private good.