Slides, Vic Gundotra Un-Reality Social with Google

It was almost ten and a half years ago, fell in love with that occupation in America

, baseball. I love the sound of the ball hitting the bat. I loved the list of green grass and red clay on the baseball diamond. Although not quite as I grew up playing cricket on the streets of Delhi, it was something that provoked similar emotions.

I longed to play baseball and so much wanted to learn to hit and pitch. He then joined the Red Herring magazine. Like many publications of San Francisco in the past, live journal account and colorful cast of characters. We played against other magazines, like Wired and advertising agencies. Despite my lack of experience, I talked my way to Track softball team.

When it came time to bat, he suddenly realized that holding a baseball bat, if I played cricket. When the boat came to me, stepped forward and went to right field, just as I was driving the ball covers the field of cricket. No matter what I did, I could not hit the ball hard enough to ride in the race. This lasted for a few games. There simply is no baseball swing. Cricket was so deeply rooted in my thinking and how associated with bat and ball, that it may also be encoded in my DNA.

Is not Got That Swing

I love baseball and will always stand on the first day of spring training with enthusiasm lover, Im coming home after exile. But it will never be an actor. It is simply not in my makeup. My misery is not over my baseball career is no different from Google. The worlds largest search engine desires the key to a magical kingdom called the social web. This would be something to do to become a part of this exclusive club that is the domain where Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and to some extent, Twitter.

Google will do almost anything to get the public how to spend reportedly $182,000,000 in San Franciscos Slide, Head-Scratcher of the transaction. Some rumors say price was $228,000,000. Now I am happy Max Levchin and his investors, but frankly, there are signs that Google not only has no idea what to do about the social, but in reality there is no imagination to come up with something more worthwhile on their own. If Google is really trying to go public and get to the winner of the social game, a lot is comparable to the purchase of Kia and hope this can help in the race past the Mercedes AMG 65 on the highway.

On Quora, Q A social services, someone asks: Slide and RockYou I miss / avoid the social gaming trend that Playfish and Zynga capitalized on . The answers are enough to say, but the answers Josh Elman(formerly known as Facebook) stands out:

I think that Playfish and Zynga both started the game as their sole focus. Do not try to pick a trend, simply believed that casual games can be combined with new distribution models of social networks and create new businesses. Both of them discovered an unusual opportunity to earn the hard work and failures. I think one of the challenges and RockYou slide during those periods was probably trying harder to pick up the trend and optimize it, and not just strive for something deeper and more durable.

Ironically, what Google is doing exactly the same select the trend and optimize it.

by engineers for engineers

This only reinforces what I had felt earlier this morning. Unable to hire a social director, Google decided to put his head traitor, Vic Gundotra, for society. Seeing Vic in the workplace(first from Microsoft, then Google), but I wonder whether it is the right guy at the concert. He is smart and analytical product manager working on the Google Mobile just that social needs, but more than the ability to add games, and music functions.

social is more than just function. And I say that for some time to understand the social and win over public networks, companies need to understand people. Im not sure, Google is able to understand the people at this level, and this is why the company strikes every time you try. There are rumors, the Google co-founder Sergey Brin defended the acquisition of the slide. He also advocated the Google Wave(, which is locked ), and poorly conceived Google buzz.

Google, thanks to two brilliant engineer-founders, has become a big company apparently able to solve the most complex engineering problems. That is, in turn, can search for money in a big machine, that is. He knows how to improve the efficiency of machines and do unimaginable things. But you can not do is internalize empathy. Do not know the feeling. Do not understand that relationships are more than just an algorithm. This can be seen in many of his victims, they are effective, but devoid of emotion, and emotions are what drive interaction. Smile raises a smile, frown frown talks and talks. It is true in the real world, and this is true, on the Internet.

IBM, Microsoft and Google

Adam Rifkin is presented in a clear post (summarized here ), which unfortunately is not available online. His argument, and I wholeheartedly agree, is that you are who you are and it is so. Google can not change, nor can you change your batting position. The whole company is based on purposeful activity, which essentially means come to Google to search and move to the next thing. It is his fate, and destiny. If your company does not recognize it, its going to go down the road IBM was in 1990, and Microsoft is now walking, the argument poignantly by Dave Winer in this lesson of history of technology.

I think that Google is facing pressure from two different directions. On the one hand the social web is in the direction of a future in which serendipity replaces search. Facebook is on the side. On the other hand, applications for mobile phone, Apple helped popularize the new goal-oriented, individual task paradigm, in fact, begins with an unnecessary, for the search. These two changes in behavior are clear and present danger for Google, as pointed out last year research report(subscription required.)

Buying Slide, Zynga, or investing in start Google Me are great ideas in theory, as is the idea of me playing baseball!

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