*IDEAorangeFYI: Apple’s profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google’s entire revenue ($10.6 billion).
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today announced that NJ TRANSIT is the first public transportation agency to partner with Google Wallet, Google’s recently released contactless payment system. With Google Wallet, NJ TRANSIT rail and bus customers have the option to use their smartphones to tap and pay for transportation tickets at select locations.
Torn about this whole method. I have to pull out my expensive smart phone to “tap” something? So each day I risk dropping or losing my phone at least two more times? We all know how this works with security cards and transpasses — always a bit sloppy. Well maybe Americans can do it. After all the Japanese have been doing this for years.
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Finally for the first time in more than a decade or so we are looking at a software product that has humanity.
At stellarvisions we believe it is essential to maintain humanity in a technological space.
Google has finally embraced this belief in what we see as a cultural shift within the organization that has surprised almost everyone. Google’s technical abilities are amazing. Its rise to dominance in search has given it undeniably
Thanks for leading the team Andy Hertzfeld.
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Tonight was our first hangout on Google+.
It’s nice. Pretty smart how it changes focus to the speaker in the big frame. The quality of the video so-so. Don’t let the screen capture freak you out. We didn’t want you to see who really was involved. ust a peek at the interface which could use considerable help.
We tried to share a YouTube video and that didn’t work.
We’ll test it again.
FaceTime is so sweet; hangouts feel a little like a blast from the past. We’re willing to give it another shot.
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An interesting look based on cultural perception. Agree or not?
The original post as far as we can tell.
Read Morechromebooks = netbooks
How’s that market been going?
Do you want to rent your laptop?
Rental price doesn’t include apps — why?
Could work as an enterprise thing but not as a consumer thing.
Wierd. But too early to tell.
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Yesterday we looked at the Google official presentation of Google Instant, today we look at a much livelier version featuring none other than Bob Dylan speed singing. This classic music video interwoven with Google Instant results is a much better illustration of what this new search technology means to the user.
Do you care how many more searches you can do in a minute?
Not really. Really geeky folks or huge organizations may care about shaving seconds off because it saves or makes them money. I do care about how it impacts my clients. But me not so much.
We dig the video and we watch it a couple times a day. Google should buy it.
Read MoreGoogle Instant is fast.
It saves you time. Is saving time that important?
How will this impact search?
It’s more about money.
It feels like it’s all about driving users to Google’s search page so they can make money on ads.
Read MoreGoogle has finally made mail do what it should do. They’ve made a mail app that understands who’s mail you want to read. Best of all it learns from your actions. This allows the priorities to change over time. Not one set of rules, an evolving set of based on your behavior. It’s as smart an idea as iOS visual voice mail. Finally everyday tasks accomplished the way you expect they should happen.
We’re about to go over and test it out for a bit.
Looks smart. Let’s see if it is smart.
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