Circle overload and the trouble with Google+
Google+ is about 1 week old and people are already posting stuff like “G+ for noobies guides“. I, for some reason, find this hilarious. On the other hand, I’m already starting to struggle with this wünder-socialnet myself. The big problem right now is friend management. Google has this concept of circles. It’s based on this [...]
Things you can learn from Google on how to redesign your industry for the web
Have you ever heard Google’s [VP of Product Design] Marissa Mayer talk about product design? Great stuff. From a recent interview with Michael Arrington at this year’s Le Web. Pay attention to this question (about 12min in) about google news and redesigning journalism. If we invented news today as a delivery channel for journalism, through [...]
Design neutrality and why Google Chrome rocks
Last week, I gave Microsoft’s new browser a shake, now it’s time to look at the competition. There is a lot else to like about Google’s new browser. But this, this is my favorite feature: Why does (almost) every product google touches, feel so refreshingly natural to use? A significant part of their competitive advantage [...]
Do androids dream of electric pants?
Thanks to Open Gardens for pointing this out. Two good vids on youtube demoing googles new mobile phone operating system/software platform called android. The first video features Sergey Brin himself introducing some of the things android can do. (which are pretty cool) As for the second video, I don’t even know what’s more interesting, the [...]
Social Network Portability Has Arrived
Google has launched it’s Open API for Social Networks. It’s about time someone did this. This explains why the goog wanted so badly a piece of facebook. And why Microsoft would pay at any wacky valuation for FB to keep it out of teh google. Facebook is the singular major social network not participating in [...]
The G-phone stirreth
Google said to be shipping 50,000 Gphones by year’s end. A UBS analyst is rumored to have information that HTC, a Taiwanese handset manufacturer, will ship about 50,000 cell phones made for Google by the end of the year. “These initial phones are not going to be for sale, says Benjamin Schachter, at UBS. “These [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology executive specializing digital payment systems, a futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of 
