"Stop telling me how great its going to be. Tell me how great the latest release is. oh wait. There's no latest release that's any different from the last release. Chrome? I thought we were talking about GTalk. I have to say I'm not hugely impressed with Google's ability to build and ship (cross platform) desktop code." - Julian Bond
"This is way too big a topic to really cover here. Two thoughts though:- - Advertising typically involves 4 players. Advertiser, Agency, Publisher and Customer. All 4 are necessary but nobody in the advertising industry ever seems to consider the 3rd and 4th. After all they are just an overhead. And Google is in a privileged position where they are both agency and publisher as a high proportion of their Ad income comes from Ads displayed on their own properties (especially search) where they don't have to pay out to a publisher. Meanwhile nobody knows what the customer actually wants to see and there's no way for the customer to feed their views back except to run Firefox+AdBlock. As a middle market publisher, you're stuck in a world where the agencies don't want to talk to you, the big advertisers don't understand or even know about you and you can only make pocket money from Adsense. This eco-system is clearly broken and ripe for a shake up. - Dave has mentioned before the idea of..." - Julian Bond
"Yes, and yes. But unfortunately running large websites still costs money and that money has to come from somewhere. And running subscription or sponsorship models has its own problems." - Julian Bond
