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Thursday, 25 November 2004

The Future is Google's EPIC (2014)

quote [ Google finally checkmates Microsoft with a feature that the software giant simply cannot match. ]

The road ahead.

[sci&tech] [by eyal@7:57amGMT] [+10 Interesting]

Comments

whatfor said @ 8:12am GMT on 25th Nov
Interesting path. I see it's logic, though, the possibilities are frightening; in a sense, Fox beat them to the punch long ago.

PhastPhrog said @ 8:14am GMT on 25th Nov
Oh noez! Google bloggers are teh futar!
Hmmm, I'm not convinced, but it's a nicely done piece all the same.

TeDDD said @ 8:21am GMT on 25th Nov
Very interesting theories with a great presentation.

ebrawer said @ 8:35am GMT on 25th Nov
the "google joins forces with amazon to make... ... ... GOOGLEZON" kinda killed it for me. Pretty good though.

nath said @ 11:12am GMT on 25th Nov
I climaxed just before that, so by then it was just aftersex cuddling anyway.

eslai said @ 8:41am GMT on 25th Nov
We need a "-1 Corny" option.

banksr0 said @ 8:47am GMT on 25th Nov
I'm surprised the intro didn't say "Reticulating Splines"

/+1 Refluffing Quantum Foam.

eIfish said @ 9:23am GMT on 25th Nov [Score:1 Interesting]
This commits the cardinal sin of flash programming - assuming that the transfer rate will remain constant, and therefore only preloading a bit of the movie, as the next part will be downloaded by the time it's needed (and then taking no corrective action when this is proved not to be the case).

This one is worse than usual - When the next segment loads, it jumps to wherever it expects the movie to have got to had it been playing, leaving gigantic holes, instead of mere pauses.

k0k0peli said @ 10:13am GMT on 25th Nov
Interesting BUT... I'd rather just read the fucking script. What's that, maybe 3k? Instead this draggy show just hiccups along my slow dialup. Somebody tell me how it ends, please?

ricky60 said @ 10:41am GMT on 25th Nov
This is how it ends: you get a real internet connection

k0k0peli said @ 11:31am GMT on 25th Nov
Yah, as soon as satellite up/down links (for vehicles moving throughout the western hemisphere) are affordable. Meanwhile, what's with the vid?

jaxtraw said @ 9:39pm GMT on 25th Nov
It ends with everybody having their own personalised newsfeed, the vast majority of which are just crapulent drivel.

Halcyonide said @ 10:39am GMT on 25th Nov
-1 "GoogleZon", "Newsbotster"
+1 Great representation (mind, on broadband)
+1 WTF I'm studying a profession that'll end up useless (journalist)!

ricky60 said @ 10:42am GMT on 25th Nov [Score:1 Funny]
You are not studying a profession that will end up useless....

(coz journalism has never been a real profession).

rubeus said @ 10:47am GMT on 25th Nov
A very well produced piece of material. Many logical conclusions.. If google isn't going to do it, someone else will. Blogs and computer generated articles are the future.

There are two major flaws:

1) Like previous google algorithims, this one could be manipulated.

2) Inaccurate journalism and sensational news would be the outcome of having mini-editors and news writers

The business model is sound though, paying people to from advertising revenues (on a global scale) is a great idea.

k0k0peli said @ 11:41am GMT on 25th Nov
The basic flaw here is that news items are reported by operatives of news organizations -- the same news orgs that would supposedly be obsoleted by news aggregators. More likely, there'll be convergance ie buyouts. Don't be surprised if Murdoch swallows Google or Clear Channel devours Yahoo or Amazon ingests Reuters. Blogs so far have been good at commenting on stories, not digging up the routine mass of news items that fill our screens and pages. But that could change if every paid reporter also blogs -- for that, the economic model needs to change. Hmm.

sensibleb said @ 11:05am GMT on 25th Nov [Score:1 Underrated]
It's full of misinformation. It says Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW, when it's common knowledge that Al Gore was the creator.

k0k0peli said @ 11:32am GMT on 25th Nov
Don't know whether to mod that TROLL or FUNNY or HOW 1999.

sensibleb said @ 11:06am GMT on 25th Nov
Nice use of "Winston Smith" on the sample ID.

Crysallis said @ 11:12am GMT on 25th Nov [Score:1 Funny]
My favorite websites are (no particular order):
216.22.48.102
67.18.150.122
70.84.250.53
63.233.167.99
69.89.74.24

honey said @ 5:34pm GMT on 25th Nov

Mine be 127.0.0.0

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

llatan said @ 9:49pm GMT on 25th Nov
You mean 127.0.0.1?

iamrick said @ 12:00pm GMT on 25th Nov
http://www.letitblog.com/epic/ols-master.swf is the swf file that is loading up in the browser, but what is the url that is called from within that movie (so I can download it fully, then watch - crappy dialup).

Cheers.

Khafra said @ 12:17pm GMT on 25th Nov
Hey, cool. I must have helped create that film--I'm moving to Tampa in February.

shadowking23 said @ 12:34pm GMT on 25th Nov
interesting story...epic sounds like wikipedia for current events that pays for good/popular content...and is also sounding like one of the major features of neil stephenson's snow crash future

kang said @ 2:43pm GMT on 25th Nov [Score:1 Funny]
Was that Billy Zane in the I.D. picture?

The future sucks already.

cancer said @ 2:58pm GMT on 25th Nov [Score:1 Insightful]
WE ARE THE ROBOTS

llatan said @ 9:49pm GMT on 25th Nov
PAK CHOOIE UNF

racerx said @ 5:14pm GMT on 25th Nov
Somewhat far-fetched but interesting nontheless.

therook said @ 7:06pm GMT on 25th Nov
Googlezon Grid...you know you want it.

blacksun said @ 8:08pm GMT on 25th Nov
yeah but they left out one key thing, nothing will ever fully monopolize the internet. .. unless you go through AOL or some content filter, you don't have to go to Googlezonbotblognewstron..
I hope!

jaxtraw said @ 9:42pm GMT on 25th Nov
As in any unregulated free market, competitors on the net have trouble challenging established monopolies. To set up an alternative to Amazon would take massive investment, for instance, and then you have to somehow get the brand awareness. People think the net is more different to the rest of life than it is. It isn't a question of making whatever you have available. That's easy. The difficult bit is somehow getting everybody to know about it and change their habits.

robin said @ 9:06pm GMT on 25th Nov [Score:2 Underrated]
Hey SEers. A colleague & I made this. Thanks for the comments (& the Flash critique -- I'll be the first to admit I am no Flashmaster).

iamrick: source file is /epic/ols-mattrobin-flash.swf

racerx said @ 9:14pm GMT on 25th Nov
Nice work. Are you two responsible for the theory too?

talondarkx said @ 9:18pm GMT on 25th Nov
Who is it who was the narrator, cause god-DAMN he had a sexy voice.

robin said @ 9:42pm GMT on 25th Nov
Matt Thompson, co-writer/-producer, is the voice. He can pull off quite a rumble.

Yeah, the theory is ours too (with props to all the other similar ideas floating around out there that inspired us, of course). We had planned, long ago, to make a whole website with lots of context & evidence & explanation & all that... but never quite got around to it.

iamrick said @ 11:30pm GMT on 25th Nov
Thanks

jaxtraw said @ 9:38pm GMT on 25th Nov
I thought this was exellently produced, fascinating and terrifying.

The news as it is today is, yes, flawed, and often biased, but at least there is some concept of professionalism in journalism. The idea that the news could be replaced by the combined drivelling of the masses ROFL OMFG LOL and internet users' lejendary speling abilllitys is kind of grim.

seru said @ 1:10am GMT on 26th Nov
"In the year 2000..." - La Bamba :)

dook_sucks said @ 6:04am GMT on 26th Nov
is friendster really that big? Maybe I should get on it so that I can be around in 2015.