some more for youse
I’ve fallen off for a while. but more importantly, here’s some shit you should read:
Pakistan is going buckwild, and guess who’s fighting a military clampdown? lawyers. Pakistani lawyers are rioting..
god, that’s awesome. I think I like that idea so much is because American lawyers would never do that.
and more importantly: Google on your phone! more Google! hooray! THIS IS PROGRESS.
you know, as a sidenote; I don’t understand how you can’t think Google is insiduous. I mean, they’re moving into cell phones now. and the good news is they’re going to create an open-source platform so, you know, the public can start creating applications for those phones. so you’ll be able to watch YouTube videos. on your phone.
I’m less than thrilled. and it’s because I just don’t give a shit about a revolution for the cell-phone consumer. I have a cell phone, and that is a depressing reality of my life. I’m not interested in participating in its fucking revolution.
but from everything I’ve read, everyone is pumped about this upcoming ”everybody gets well” announcement because Google’s nice. it’s a nice company. it’s a nice, Bay area internet start-up with a great-sense-of-humor-kind of multibillion dollar corporation that compiles information on anyone it comes in contact with as its most basic tenet of business. and it’s really, really nice.
anyway, here’s the real reason Google does anything, so get a pen: it’s to make fucking money. so call it for what it is. it isn’t a godsend, it’s a corporation. but for some reaseon, every time it muscles into another corner of the market, people shout its praises, lay rose petals at its feet. for where goes Google, goes progress. as if its easily-accesible Google maps and calendars and emails and all-encompassing search tools are the pinnacle of progress.
well, fuck, I’m tired of hearing about how Google has it’s fingers on the pulse of the world. becasuse Google’s history to this point hasn’t been a wonderful, inevitable matter of course, and we need to stop looking at it that way. none of this has been pre-ordained. Google gets on cell phones, and pretty soon you’ll have a wonderful set of tailored advertisements following you wherever you go. fantastic.
so as far as I’m concerned, I don’t have to appreciate all of the wonderful applications it can offer me.
Putting Google’s popular search, e-mail and YouTube video applications in front of more cellphone users positions the company to tap into a growing market for mobile advertising. Search on cellphones generates $30 million in revenue in the United States and is expected to grow to $1.4 billion by 2012, according to Kelsey Group, a market research firm.
