Comments on: Google goes mashup http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/google-goes-mashup Adam DuVander’s thoughts on keeping things simple. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/google-goes-mashup/comment-page-1#comment-1165 Adam Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:13:13 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/google-goes-mashup#comment-1165 Ha! I like the 5 Cs, Bubna. Making information available is a noble goal, but I think they need to stick to being brokers. See Paul Kedrosky's <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/05/my_maps_at_goog.html" rel="nofollow">Is Google Doing a Microsoft</a>? Ha! I like the 5 Cs, Bubna.

Making information available is a noble goal, but I think they need to stick to being brokers.

See Paul Kedrosky’s Is Google Doing a Microsoft?

]]> By: bubna http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/google-goes-mashup/comment-page-1#comment-1164 bubna Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:38:44 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/google-goes-mashup#comment-1164 One might argue that they were hosting, supporting, and otherwise encouraging user content as soon as they started caching web pages and other online documents and making the easily accessible. Essentially, they used to just copy stuff and then make it searchable. Enabling users to create it and keep it solely on their servers just simplifies the process. :) Now they can control the format and do not need to worry about crawling, copying, copyright, caching, or competitors (as much). I'd say they're trading one simplicity for another. :) One might argue that they were hosting, supporting, and otherwise encouraging user content as soon as they started caching web pages and other online documents and making the easily accessible. Essentially, they used to just copy stuff and then make it searchable. Enabling users to create it and keep it solely on their servers just simplifies the process. :) Now they can control the format and do not need to worry about crawling, copying, copyright, caching, or competitors (as much). I’d say they’re trading one simplicity for another. :)

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