More than 140 million mobile subscribers worldwide will use social networks on their phones by 2013, generating over $410 million in subscription revenues, according to ABI Research’s September 2008 “Mobile Social Networking” study.
ABI said it was intentionally very conservative in its predictions.

“Subscriber numbers for mobile social networking will climb at a relatively modest rate for the next three or four years, but will then start to accelerate sharply,” said Michael Wolf, research director at ABI, in a statement. “That uptick is based on assumed acceptance levels in the giant emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China.”
The company’s latest…

I’ve been using Google Chrome for a full day so far I like it.  The problem is that I’m not in an enterprise.  Google Chrome Download is here.  Chrome Download is fast.

Kara Swisher of All Things D has a few videos and posts from inside the Googleplex here and here.  My notes from the event is here.  My analysis prior to the announcement about the real deal on the meaning of Chrome is here.  

Here is a video of Sergey talking and below that a video of Kara getting the experience of what these massive press events are like (she gets me in…

Lofty goals are important.  Changes in the technology continuum create a better experience for everyone.  No doubt about it.  Things like the rise of Google, Youtube, Ebay, and so forth are all examples to that.
Something new comes along, some folks make money, a leap in technology is made and everyone plays catchup.  And then we are all better off.

So let’s talk about this Chrome business.  Now, just because a browser is better doesn’t mean people will use it.  The only thing that will change Internet Explorer’s dominance is knocking Windows off the desktop.   Don’t hold your breath.

I have been a…

Sergey just flew back from Burning Man to <a href=”http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/09/video_sergey_br.html”>handle the questions from Rob Hof of Businessweek.</a>  Here is a great video from Rob asking Sergey some candid questions.  

Sergey is chillin big time.  

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Just a short note on Google Chrome. I downloaded it today to try it out. I had not idea how hard that would be. The download was easy but it doesn’t seem to work with a lot of webpages. Most importantly for me if you try to visit Outlook Web Access the Exchange 2007 CAS server will force you into downlevel “OWA Light”. Any browser I use absolutely must support the full functionality of OWA. Maybe I shouldn’t have had such high expectations from a beta product but I expected more from Google given all the hype.

My opinion is Chrome will have…

Google is taking its’ experience in handling the massive videos of YouTube and previously Google Video and offering a new product for businesses - Google Video for Business (notice they didn’t say YouTube). Dean Takahashi of Venturebeat is reporting the story on this.

This is coming from the Enterprise group. The enterprise group has been serious about competing mainly with Microsoft but now it looks like they are targeting Cisco.

Here is the video from Google announcing the product. It doesn’t look compelling at all. It just looks like a retrofitted Google video product which was weak to begin with. Cisco and the rest…

John Furrier was way out in front of the Google Chrome story. What’s Chrome you ask? Google will announce tomorrow they are coming out with a new browser called “Chrome”. The feature list looks a lot like IE7 and IE8 with a sprinkling of Firefox. And the kicker, supposedly it will be 100% open source.

This is HUGE! And the strategy is only thinly veiled. Google is planning an end-around on the OS market. Between Google Apps, Gears and new Chrome they are attempting to make the OS irrelevant. Much the way VMWare ESXi, or Microsoft Server Core, boots to a minimal…

Today is Labor Day and I promised my family that I would take the day off, but just can’t resist this story about Chrome. It’s a great conversation and an important project - The web needs a Modern Browser and it’s called Chrome.

I’m taking the day off but would love to hear from anyone about what a Modern Browser looks like?

Phil Lenssen has the story about the upcoming announcement.

Over on my personal opinion blog I talked about the implication of this being an operating system war. There I talk about this being an operating system war in full action. One…

Comcast putting a limit on usage 250GB just opened the door on the P2P business model. GigaOm (Om) who is an authority on this subject weights in. Om nails it by saying that in the short term it might not look good but it certainly raises question about what the future might look like. I agree with Om on this. Caps are bad and possibly foreclose the future innovation. Wait it’s a free market. The answer is P2P.

P2P is not hip today but this move by Comcast opens the door for the p2p business model. Why? The innovation in acceleration…

Olympic Numbers - Massive Live Broadcast on the Internet ?? Who’s the biggest in Live Concurrency?

To date I’ve been trying to find the record for most concurrent viewers of a “Live” event. NewTeeVee has a breakdown and detailed article on Internet usage on the Olympics 2008 in China.

Cisco helped setup the NBC system. Translation they provided the gear and expertise to make sure there were no screwups. I’m sure they overprovisioned the hell out of it. I wonder what the costs were? I wonder how much it cost? I wonder how much that provisioning investment delivered in terms of…