To: ShadowAce
To: nickcarraway
"Google-creep" aka "competition"
3 posted on
08/22/2006 12:47:02 PM PDT by
Moral Hazard
(The "missing links" in evolution are nothing compared to the extraneous links in intelligent design.)
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4 posted on
08/22/2006 12:47:24 PM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: nickcarraway
When your product/service is copied, you need to innovate and make a better product/service to beat the copy. Capitalism @ work!
No wait, maybe they should have patented their online calendar so no one else can improve/copy it. /sarc
To: nickcarraway
I don't need to wonder how the people at Google feel about eeevil predatory corporations.
6 posted on
08/22/2006 12:49:02 PM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: nickcarraway
It only takes Google to experiment in a particular online area to kill off fledgling businesses. That appears to be what happened to Kiko. Google launched a test version of its Google Calendar application in April, and that seems to have rung the death knell for Kiko. Danged capitalist competition, some good commie should put an end to this. < / sarcasm >
7 posted on
08/22/2006 12:49:29 PM PDT by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: nickcarraway
Resistance is futile.
You will be a-Google-lated.
9 posted on
08/22/2006 12:49:52 PM PDT by
Thrusher
("...there is no peace without victory.")
To: nickcarraway
11 posted on
08/22/2006 12:50:44 PM PDT by
FReepaholic
(This tagline could indicate global warming.)
To: nickcarraway
The more they creep, the more diffuse they'll get, the worse a job they'll do on their core business, the more customers they'll lose to nimble little guys who come in under them.
That's just the way it works...
12 posted on
08/22/2006 12:51:31 PM PDT by
Antoninus
(Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
To: nickcarraway
It only takes Google to experiment in a particular online area to kill off fledgling businesses. That appears to be what happened to Kiko. Google launched a test version of its Google Calendar application in April, and that seems to have rung the death knell for Kiko.I had never heard of kiko.com until now.
13 posted on
08/22/2006 12:52:12 PM PDT by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: nickcarraway
What?!!!
An Interent start-up no one ever heard of going out of business?!!!
That's impossible!
14 posted on
08/22/2006 12:53:33 PM PDT by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: nickcarraway
It reminds me of AT&T / Bell Labs years ago. Lots of cash to throw around, groundbreaking research, pet projects....and look at them now.
To: nickcarraway
Wonder how that Ask Jeeves Calendar app is coming along?
18 posted on
08/22/2006 12:57:48 PM PDT by
fat city
("Journalists are sloppy, lazy and on expense account")
To: nickcarraway
It's not called "Google Creep". It's called "Competition." You may have heard of it. It's part of capitalism.
It's not like an online calendar is not an obvious idea or anything. For pete's sake.
19 posted on
08/22/2006 12:59:22 PM PDT by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: nickcarraway
I'm not sure what the Kiko product is or what the Google alternative is. If it's a on-line calendar for your appointments, etc., do you really want Google to store your data? These are the people that seem to want to control all information. Doing a transaction with them, such as their paypay alternative, requires you to give them your social security number, as far as I know. If they aren't storing your calendar information, why use an online version instead of a desktop app or, heaven-forbid, a paper calendar?
To: nickcarraway
Geez, has anybody Googled "calendars" and seen how much software is available out there? Maybe this Kiko software wasn't worth much anyway. They are only asking $49,000 for it.
26 posted on
08/22/2006 1:10:51 PM PDT by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: nickcarraway
I just Google'd "Google-creep" without really wanting to.
DAMN YE GOOGLE GODS!! Give my back my autonomy!!!
27 posted on
08/22/2006 1:11:06 PM PDT by
Number57
("Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!"~ Joe Young)
To: nickcarraway
Get my calendars at Wal Mart! Take that evil giant!!
34 posted on
08/22/2006 1:31:24 PM PDT by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: nickcarraway
35 posted on
08/22/2006 1:45:32 PM PDT by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: nickcarraway
Yahoo has had a calendar for years. I doubt Google is after Kiko which I never heard of. They are after Yahoo.
It is likely to see some big (and possibly stupid) merger such as MSFT and YHOO or MSFT and EBAY or YHOO and EBAY or at least some alliances. Trouble is, GOOG is so big and flush with cash that they can put the kaibosh on some of these alliances. For example, a huge number of Ebay hits come from GOOG searches - this makes it difficult for Ebay to strike any deal that would harm GOOG. Also GOOG paid $1B for an AOL deal that also gives it first right of refusal on a merger.
GOOG is the 600 lb. Gorilla for sure, but a small monkey can jump all around it if it wants to.
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