the marketing discipline is more intuitive. thing is, you can’t make that clear to a bunch of geeks. they have another conception of the world, they will never understand you. they will instead pick every idea to pieces if it’s not in line with their technical view.

so no, if everything is based on figures, product launches will frequently go wrong. better ask somebody in the real world once in a while to get the product right.

As they do have a product marketing department and product marketing managers (highly paid, I might add), someone simply must have come up with the plan to verify how the target group actually likes the way it works. That is Marketing 101.

I have read that at Google ALL decisions are based on figures, so I would be very surprised that one of the most important product launches just slipped past this rule.

So I think that Google is (again/see China) just offering a spin to hide the real facts; they probably can not admit that they knew exactly what they were doing. That would give them really bad PR. So they came up with the lame excuse of “not having tested enough”.

I liked Win mobile 5, 6 and 6.1 But Apple and android took the mobile platform to the next level. HTC took it even further with the even more enhancements such as flex UI.

It might look up to date now, but they will need to keep it evolving if they want it to be in line with the competition at the time of release.

The entire internet will get into facebook.

BTW – AT&T Services, Inc. own buzz/com which is being promoted as “your social net for business recommendations from the people you trust most”. Bet they are loving this for some good free traffic…

Backed by the 0 ability to market that Google has, this is destined to be as successful as all of their other ventures excepting adwords.

Google’s YouTube is often blocked in China, so they won’t have a strong leg to stand on when competing with Baidu in the video market in China. This is a big move ahead for Baidu in the China market.

Aren’t these comments pretty much worthless when nobody has any idea if they are replied to or not?

Big whoop.

The invisibility of the destination URL is what I hate most about URL shorteners. Glad to see that Twitter is doing something constructive regarding it.

IMHO the only real solution to all those problems is not to use shorteners at all. But alas, with length limits on tweets they are a dastardly necessity. Hmm, or we could all just stop using Twitter… hahahaha LOL

Ripping documents like PDFs off sites and presenting them in a Google branded viewer however is something quite different, and obviously blatant copyright infringement.

I think this is just a fancy viewer. The problem is the webmaster will be seeing stats credited to the Google server, but that’s the only real issue. I await to be proven wrong.

Eventually Google will be able to more or less answer any question, since every other website is embedded in the Google domain.

They’re definitely playing it smart, but IMHO it’s about time to put a hold on this nonsense.

You don’t want to be recognised in Street View when you’re doing something embarrassing? How could we know, just file a complaint. You don’t want your website indexed? Just modify your robots.txt. You don’t want us to steal your PDF? ….How could we know you didn’t want that?!
They’re pushing it more and more and I don’t like it.

So it looks like one more way that Google Search can distribute a site’s content without requiring a direct visit to the site itself – and in this case, it’s an entire document, not just a snippet. And the intention is to roll this out for other file format types, too.

Another good one is to require a person to enter a specific word that can be found by clicking on a link.

it would be great to be able to track the navigation paths (clicks et al) through some of my bigger pdf documents (200 + pages).

A bunch of people that used to work at Macromedia spun off and started Avivo (Atomz Search) an enterprise site search, this was before Abobe bought Macromedia.

Then the following purchases happened in order:

Webside Story bought Avivo
Visual Sciences bought Webside Story
Omniture bought Visual Sciences

Now Adobe purchasing Omniture puts some of those same ex-Macromedia people right back in Adobe where they were heading in the first place!

So what kinds of businesses do you think Adobe wants to move into next that will complement analytics?

SIMILARITIES
The main similarities between the two models include the following:

They share similar architecture. – Both of the models share a similar architecture. This can be illustrated by the fact that both of them are constructed with layers.

They share a common application layer.- Both of the models share a common “application layer”. However in practice this layer includes different services depending upon each model.

Both models have comparable transport and network layers.- This can be illustrated by the fact that whatever functions are performed between the presentation and network layer of the OSI model similar functions are performed at the Transport layer of the TCP/IP model.

Knowledge of both models is required by networking professionals.- According to article obtained from the internet networking professionals “need to know both models”. (Source:

Both models assume that packets are switched.- Basically this means that individual packets may take differing paths in order to reach the same destination.

DIFFERENCES:
The main differences between the two models are as follows:

TCP/IP Protocols are considered to be standards around which the internet has developed. The OSI model however is a “generic, protocol- independent standard.”

TCP/IP combines the presentation and session layer issues into its application layer.

TCP/IP combines the OSI data link and physical layers into the network access layer.

TCP/IP appears to be a more simpler model and this is mainly due to the fact that it has fewer layers.

TCP/IP is considered to be a more credible model- This is mainly due to the fact because TCP/IP protocols are the standards around which the internet was developed therefore it mainly gains creditability due to this reason. Where as in contrast networks are not usually built around the OSI model as it is merely used as a guidance tool.

The OSI model consists of 7 architectural layers whereas the TCP/IP only has 4 layers.

Service : it tells only what the layer does, and not how entities above it access it or how the layer work.
Interfaces : it tells the processes above it how to access it, and specifies parameters and results.
Protocol : With this definition, the layer can characterize its own protocols, as many as he wants, and change them without affecting software in higher layers.

So we can introduce main differences between from these concepts :

OSI Model Reference

TCP/IP Model Reference

Service, interface
and protocol Service, interface and protocol are not clearly defined. For example, the only real services offered by the Internet layer are
- Send IP Packet
- Receive IP Packet Protocols in the OSI model are better hidden and can be replaced relatively easily as the technology changes, which is one of the main objective of layered protocols. Functionalities Because models were invented before protocols, functionalities put in each layer are not very optimized. In this case, the protocols have been invented before models, so the functionalities are perfectly described. Numbers of layers Seven layers, Network (Internet), Transport and Application layers being similar to TCP/IP Only four layers. Connectionless/
Connection-oriented communication Both connectionless and connection-oriented communication are supported in the network layer, but only connection-oriented communication in the transport layer. Only one mode in the network layer (connectionless) but both modes in the transport layer are supported, giving the users a choice.

I couldn’t have put it better if I tried. I think too often people freak out at fluctuations and instead of relaxing for a couple of days they try various things, like content changes, which ends up hurting them even more.

Boo!

Feels more like a VHS and Beta situation to me.

On the other hand… if someone comes knocking on my business door with billions in hand I’m sure I’d say come on in too.