The Practice of Your Life

The Exercise and Pursuit of a Consciously Created Life

What we can learn from Bing vs. Google

Jul 16
2009

I was reading an article recently about Bing vs. Google Search by David Pogue where he gives a very clear summary of how Bing is better.  Bing by the way is Microsoft’s answer to Google search which has become the closest connection most of us have to God.  You can get an answer, or rather almost every answer there is to any question you have by typing your query into Google.  And therein lies the problem with Google, or rather the opportunity for other search contenders to take some market share: there are so many results it’s often hard to find what you’re really looking for.

You can read David’s article for a more detailed understanding of the way’s Bing actually has improved upon Google’s offering so… Continue reading

News at the speed of light

Jul 10
2009

My dad didn’t wake up this morning. I’m sure you’ll all hear about it. It hasn’t yet hit me but it’s about to.” This was a tweet from Billy Mays’ Jr. breaking the news of the death of his father, legendary pitch man Billy Mays on Sunday June 28th 2009.

Just to get a sense of the speed at which news travels today, consider that it used to take weeks for word to spread to other parts of the country and months for some parts of the world.   News of Michael Jackson’s death was spread before he was officially pronounced dead and news of the legendary pitch man’s was broken by his son’s tweet ”

At the turn of the century the outbreak… Continue reading

Move over email and Twitter, Google Wave is coming

Jun 29
2009

Recently, I was reading “Why Twitter Will Soon Become Obsolete” by Jason Clark .  Very well written and insightful piece that was another reminder of how rapidly change is coming at us.

Jason makes the case that while micro-blogging – the 140 character limit of posts (tweets) that Twitter pioneered – is here to stay, there is no reason to believe that Twitter itself will have the staying power of say a Google, Apple or Microsoft.  The marketplace is littered with the dead and dying business entities that once generated all of the buzz that Twitter now enjoys e.g. Netscape, AOL, Friendster and MySpace to name a few.

But apart from marketplace vagaries that are hard to explain even after they have occurred (read… Continue reading