http://www.justekonline.com/blog Thoughts, ideas and correlations about technology. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:57:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My thoughts and experiences are that I have never seen any OS released by Microsoft, server or workstation (and I’ve been watching and using them since MS-DOS) that was “customer” ready upon its release.  After the release of Vista my skeptical opinion on Microsoft’s new OS releases was reaffirmed in ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/10/29/is-windows-7-just-vista-rebranded/ Enter Facebook.com.  I'm going to assume that you have a basic knowledge of what Facebook is, but I will go into a little bit of detail as to what Facebook means to companies like Microsoft and Google from the standpoint of aggregating information about its users.  The “low down” on Facebook ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/08/26/is-facebook-the-answer-to-effective-advertising-on-youtube-part-6/ Now if you will, let us take a step back from the “1984” paranoid view of Google to the charges of it making money.  Sometime ago Google bought YouTube.com for $1.65 billion.  http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html Google did this and in true Google fashion chose not to charge for people using YouTube to view, upload and ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/08/22/is-facebook-the-answer-to-effective-advertising-on-youtube-part-5/ What Google truly is  Picture if you will yourself standing in a blank field with no grass just a white, shiny linoleum floor below your feet.  Now picture yourself looking up into the sky and seeing floating there above you, everything, and I mean everything…cats, books, people, bottled water, stinky cheese….everything you ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/08/20/is-facebook-the-answer-to-effective-advertising-on-youtube-part-4/ "So you're telling me that the best search engine in the world and all of these free pieces of software like email, word processing, spreadsheets, phone directories, blog engines, to just name a few ARE free??!!  Right…….do I look like a sucker to you?" As described earlier Google’s mission is to organize the ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/08/17/is-facebook-the-answer-to-effective-advertising-on-youtube-part-3/ The search you never knew you made Our experience with Google searches up until recently has been pretty simple.  Go to the Google home page and then type in the search words you think will show you the results you want.  Google only knows what we want based on the information and words we type ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/08/13/is-facebook-the-answer-to-effective-advertising-on-youtube-part-2/ There is no argument that Google is the 800lb gorilla on the Web, but there has been some talk that they might be challenged and given a really good run for their money by a company such as Facebook or Microsoft.  Take a look at this article that appeared in Wired Magazine ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/08/10/is-facebook-the-answer-to-effective-advertising-on-youtube/ About 3 months ago I was in the deep bowels of Google's "even more" section and found a question based search engine that was being developed. This was not your grandmother’s search engine, oh no, this was a search engine that would allow you to ask a question and have ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/08/05/12/ I am,  currently reading the book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Check it out on Amazon for about $25 http://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp/1401322905/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248279205&sr=8-1 Or get it for ......Free (that's right) from Audible.com http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_AVEN_000001&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes I have read many reviews on this book from the main stream media and I have to say I find them to be ... http://www.justekonline.com/blog/2009/07/22/is-free-good/