Valleywag: "Google hasn't really cared about Blogger since the start."
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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Man, did they blow an opportunity.
have they really showed any less care for Blogger than they have for any of their other properties?
if there is one big question for the big Google experiement, it's whether a product will ever make it to v3.0
Orkut sits around for 500 years until it finally gets a Google talk upgrade... could they hire a graphic designer first? And what have we seen from Dodgeball lately?
Guess Google is a neglectful parent!
It's just a link and quote from you, Ev, which is the classy thing to do. On the other hand, I think it's a bit cheeky of VW to beat up on Google. Blogger is healthy with good (relative to the net) content, and has scored well in it's cat and mouse game with the blog-spammers. Forget Facebook features. It's a blogging platform. Join Facebook. Blogger circa 2002(?) had more customisation and features than most users needed, and it still does. Remember the 80 solution? Google may not be the visionary adoptive parents some want them to be, but they have cared for Blogger.
The problem with Google and most companies with eiter deep pockets or "older" management is they dont have the vision or the strength.
What I mean is the typical corporate professional. They know how to run a pivot table in excel to cross reference 3 departments but god help them have a creative thought other than what restaurant they will eat at for lunch today!
The solution!!! Is to hire hot-to-trot managers that go to India and setup 10 person coding teams and kick some ass!
I have been building apps for a new portal solution where I give people like 80+ tools all wrapped into a CMS Social Community....cant go into more details until its out of RC-1
But my point is I have been knocking out the cool apps! It took my crew 3 days to make our very own video/audio encoder that is so slick! almost no server overhead so the encoding process on a 400mb AVI to FLV is nearly .003% CPU useage and like 200k of ram with most of the weigtht on the swap-space. Point is I can fit like 20,000 simultaneous users encoding media on 2 load-balancing xeon servers.
So if little ol' me can go to India get a cool bomb ass apartment for $200 a month and chill with coding teams and make awesome software then GOOGLE and its deeeeep pockets should have no problem!!!
I think the CEO should stop smoking so much Ganja!!! And if he does not smoke what the heck is his reason for not having 1000 coders in India!!! Get a clue!!
Maybe its too difficult to hire the 100 Amaerican managers and the related support staff? Or maybe they dont know how to book plane tickets?
Ohhhh I get it they dont care!
WhateVer!!!!
Maybe they will as to buy my company and I will tell them yes provided they hire the correct management team!!!! Otherwise forget it!
Buy it back from them for less that you sold it for. In the meantime, Matt and the Wordpress team are innovating like crazy.
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