When Google Speaks, and When we Speak About Google
Occasionally, people at google write something long and interesting and when they do I tend to find what they say well informed and mostly true to form. Some people argue that they are being hypocritical however I find that they are generally being human.
In any case, recently, Jonathan Rosenberg, wrote a nice long post about openness as a market strategy, how it should all come together and how google plays or at least hopes to play in this game. Have a look at the Meaning of Open to see what I am talking about.An interesting piece, posted by a non googler, Devin Coldewey from Crunchgear, made the comparison between google and the roman empire which ended up also being mostly about openness and creating contextual improvements, not just making better products. Read Google, Rome and Empire.
I have posted about these kinds of things before, in particular, one of my favorite articles from google, also from Jonathan Rosenberg, as a similar kind of state of play perspective from earlier this year, From the Height of This Place. I guess I quite like Jonathan Rosenberg's writing. What do you think of all this?
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Excellent read. As a business student, really makes me wonder if anything I'm learning is/will be relevant in the future, given the push for more open models. Seems to go totally against the typical business mindset.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am sorry to say but I think many of the current business schools have a mindset that is not compatible with the future most of us hope for, in regards to the internet and information control and many other things. I hear that some schools are changing to try to address this.
ReplyDeleteSadly I think business thinking has caused many of the issues we suffer from today.