http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2006/10/31/googles-new-zen-like-philosophy-be-the-internet/ The random things that spew forth from my brain... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:43:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19620 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2006/10/31/googles-new-zen-like-philosophy-be-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-4911 CodeWord: Apokalyptik Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:40:29 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/?p=149#comment-4911 [...] I’ve mentioned before that the whole goal here is to “be the internet”.  I don’t think that goal has changed recently.  Google has sown the world two things:  First that there’s a vast amount of power to be wielded by being “the internet” to the average Tom Dick and Harry, and Second that the title is *always* up for grabs.  A while back Yahoo! was the internet, before that AOL was the internet, before that newsgroups were the internet.  Need I say more?  And each of those companies wielded an extreme sway over the comings and goings of the internet. [...] [...] I’ve mentioned before that the whole goal here is to “be the internet”.  I don’t think that goal has changed recently.  Google has sown the world two things:  First that there’s a vast amount of power to be wielded by being “the internet” to the average Tom Dick and Harry, and Second that the title is *always* up for grabs.  A while back Yahoo! was the internet, before that AOL was the internet, before that newsgroups were the internet.  Need I say more?  And each of those companies wielded an extreme sway over the comings and goings of the internet. [...]

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