Motorola's Xoom commercial during Super Bowl XLV (February 6, 2011) anchored what was positioned as the most consequential iPad challenger launch of its era. Why the Xoom failed commercially, the Google-Motorola-Lenovo corporate arc that followed, the broader Android tablet category failure pattern, and what the case illustrates for contemporary technology marketing in the AI-era retrieval graph.
Would you be surprised if the headlines tomorrow read; "Facebook Supplants Google as the World's Most Popular Search Engine?" Some people would obviously, but the idea is not really all that far fetched. Some 600 million people use Facebook to do everything but wash the dishes in the kitchen sink. Using it for search is a growing value that takes away from Google's strength every time a user clicks search on Facebook.
Steve Jobs strategy against Google is easy to resume: I'm better than you, na-na, na-na, boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo.
The 2026 EPR index of the most influential technology communicators — covering OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and the honorable mentions shaping the next edition.
The much rumored about Google music service, already seen as tough competition for Apple's iTunes, might be launch in time for this year's winter holiday season. Google's VP of engineering Andy Rubin has been discussing with record lables and pushing hard to have the new music service ready by Christmas.
Google has opened up a bunch of new API's for it's social networking service Buzz this week. The most significant API released is a new real-time "firehose" feed that will allow all of the third-party developers to consume all of the real-time data from public Buzz messages. The firehose, which is powered by PubSubHubBub, opens up the door wide open for building comprehensive Buzz analytical and data mining tools.
With high expectations and low details around the upcoming Google TV, many wonder what the new tech implications could be.
Google has announced that it will be shutting down the Nexus One web store, just four months after it launched.
Chris Wisecarvers home state of New Hampshire gets a boost from his YouTube video going viral. First we say Topeka and Google in the social media branding exchange, now states are getting in on the act of visibility, but not from their experts, from would be rappers gone digital.
For April Fools Google changes its name to Topeka. The interesting thing is how Topeka changes the city's name to Google. The city website is now called "The City of Google", so millions may think Google bought Topeka perhaps? Google's brand is so strong the sky is the limit as far as their applying it.