The Great Tech War of 2012

I just starting to read the new issue of Fast Company : The Great Tech War of 2012. Who will win the battle for the future of innovation economy? wooohooooooo... it really great to read it. They compare 4 companies with different starting point which has grown ahead of others to be the leader of digital world, Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook. This is quite a thorough article on each company's excellence, competitiveness and value. And a nice reading for all the tech enthusiast out there... I will update my comment when I finish reading it.

20 things I learned about browsers and the web

I'm a big fan of Google. Maybe from what i have written so far you can conclude that yourself. And as a Google fan, I also set my heart for Chrome as my favourite browser - more caused by its integrated search engine and Google translate in the url tab. So today, finally I installed Chrome in my office computer after a long time mutual relationship with Firefox (my 2nd favourite browser). Then after installed Chrome this time, I prepare myself for the first page that usually shown, "how google chrome can do" or "how you use your chrome" or other bla-bla-bla. But then, something new welcome me in this first Chrome page.

It's a visual illustrated book by Google Chrome team called 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web. It's an interesting and easy to read book. One sentence caught my eye from its foreword :

"Life as citizens of the web can be liberating and empowering, but also deserves some self-education"

It's nice to know that they think of the user to understand about how this virtual universe work and how this giant web gives value to our daily life.

Some quick recap...

• 68th annual Golden Globe 2011 result is out! The Social Network won Best Motion Picture - Drama. WOW... it's just a big WOW... *speechless* I thought the movie was great, but I never thought that it would be an award material... so speechless! But anyway, I'm not upset with the result, Natalie Portman won Best Actress for Black Swan, and Colin Firth won Best Actor for The King's Speech... and thank God The Tourist didn't win anything, it just weird to got nominated, and would be weirder if it won any.

• Apple CEO, no other than 'the' Steve Jobs, announced his absence for medical purpose. It seems his health issue coming back to market. Apple COO Tim Cook once again cover his absence from CEO post and everybody scared up! Yes, Apple is Jobs and Jobs is Apple. But hey, it was decades after the launch of first Apple's Macintosh, and who knows how many mini and micro version of Steve Jobs that they already has inside the company?!?! :P

• Official statement from Eric Schmidt through Google's blog : Larry Page will claim the CEO post at April this year! He said that finally Google doesn't need "adult supervision", and especially it seems that geeky-duo doesn't like to be supervised... How it would be? Dunno. Nobody knows. But on their 2011 vision at Harvard Business Review, Eric Schmidt said that this year is all mobile! Mobile everyone! Mobile! After Android market share boosted up to 25% in just a year (and especially Android makes Motorolla looks cool again), who knows what will they do this year.
  

-so un-analitic, un-structured, but hey... it's a recap anyway :P -

Boutiques : computer meet fashion, happy ending?

"fashion comes and go, but style is forever" - Yves St. Laurent

That is one of the most wellknown quote in fashion industry, me myself, heard it everytime I watched Style Star on E! channel. "style is forever", maybe that part of the quote that inspired these bunch of 'computer nerd' and 'fashion nerd' from Google to collaborate in creating an online personalized fashion shop called Boutiques.com. Because Internet can immortalize almost everything. (-hey, I do not know that they hired fashion nerd too, I think the word 'fashion' does not match with 'nerd'-no offense ^_^)

From Shinta-Jojo to $6 billion

How you define the very word 'YouTube'? The first word popped up in my mind is video, the second is Google and the third is... Shinta Jojo :D

Actually, the third word will always be varied based on current 'highest watched' or most popular on that online broadcast service.

Shinta and Jojo, Indonesian version (and better looking :p) of Moymoy Palaboy being a trending topic for several days on Twitter (under topic 'keong racun'). Me, of course the late response one, don't know what this 'keong racun' means. When I know about them, voila... they already come to my office for a business deal(?) or partnership maybe... I don't know the exact purpose.

Google goes politics...

As internet user, we all have known Google's long culture of innovation to meet the user's need and find better value for advertiser. So, here's something new. Yesterday, through their official blog, Google announce their own platform for campaign called You choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit in Youtube.