Sebastian Cadenas » facebook

Bing is the biggest rival of Google

scadenas — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:52:43 +0000

During the week I RT a friend, who tweeted an interview to Eric Schmidt, who is the CEO of Google. After I watched it I though two things about the interview. First of all, the importance of recognize a competitor. Schmidt said that Bing is going directly to Google´s core business, which is offer effective and highly relevant advertising. However, Apple and Facebook are long term threats.

Bing is a well run, highly competitive search engine. Meanwhile, it’s “too early to tell,” how big a competitor Facebook will be, he says. Apple is, “the extreme expression of a closed system, but also a partner.

The second part of the interview which called my attention was his promise to be the CEO of Google for 20 years after the company became public.

Shift of personal information paradigm

scadenas — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:07:12 +0000

I learned that keep things simple is a must to develop business, Facebook privacy has more than 50 different settings, with more than 170 options. The page that explains them has more than 45.000 words and its policy is longer than the US constitution, according to a report released by the NY Times, which is below.

It is very important to understand the shift of paradigm that they are implementing, before was what I do public and today is what I do private.

The graphic below is not completely relevant to the previous part of the post, however I believe is also important to understand some facts about what facebook is doing, how many people is affected and who is the modern media consumer.

400 million active users
50% check in daily
Average user spends 55 minutes per day
35 million update status every day
3 billion photos uploaded each month
5 billion pieces of content shared every day
70% of users are outside the United States

There is always the possibility to turn off your account, I wonder if it is going to start happening or if they are going to succeed with the implementation of the new paradigm.

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Internet is moving fast, so fast, almost at real time.

scadenas — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:19:29 +0000

Couple weeks ago I read a very interesting article comparing the Industrial revolution with what they called Internet revolution. For few seconds think being while the industrial revolution: imagine seeing all the changes and how people had to adapted to them, people migrating to cities, working in factories instead of farms or avoiding the feudal system. Imagine the mind of a person deciding to move from London or Paris to America, 200 years ago, because he believed there were better opportunities there.

Today we’re living the Internet revolution, which started only fifteen or twenty years ago, so who are more than 25 years old still remember how everything was before.

Can you remember people going to banks to pay bills? Do you remember the first website that you loaded? Or have you though possible 10 years ago the idea to be hosted while you travel for free by people in the more remotes parts of the world thanks of an online network? I had printed on my mind a teacher from high school who told us that she had to study what email or chat were because they were “on theory” when she was at university.

Internet changed people and how we communicate. Internet became the platform to link, in the beginning the linking was between people only by emails, then by chat, when social media became popular, Facebook or Linkedin let you keep most of your contacts tracked and today, twitter, buzz or the project where yahoo is still working, are letting you keep all your “links” updated and what is more impressive, everything is happening in real-time. The world is moving fast, so fast, and now search engines are moving them platforms to offer real-time searches to adapt to this new stage.

This speed affects everything and in completely different scales; I remember a group of musicians playing on Queen St (one of the principal St. from Auckland) the day after the earthquake in Haiti, to raise money in New Zealand to send to Haiti. Couple weeks ago I wanted to buy an Internet domain, I didn’t do it in the first time, and a week later it was sold, and couple days ago I started receiving comments on pictures that I uploaded, don’t even 1 minute after the loading bar had finished.

Today everything is happening at real-time, which is teaching us how to take fast decisions with the most information available, because if not someone else is going to take it before us.

Updating this post I want to add two videos about internet and the social media revolution showed by a friend, thanks Simon!