Google Shakes Up Management

Any book written since 2005 on VC startups or funded dot com ventures or even enterprise angel funded corporations with bricks and mortar realities behind a new Internet presence has a different story today.The next page has been turned for Google (Earth), with a juggle king, veteran Page again newly crowned at the top of the biggest new media empire since, well , Microsoft, Ebay or Apple. Sergey Brin will turn to other projects.

Larry Page, coming back from semiretirement at thirty seven, will take up the reins as Google Czar at the company he helped found in 2000. Just as Google and many other flexible flyers in the new Internet race a decade ago flashed ahead of the huge titan companies still trying to grasp what the Web could mean, it now will muster new (old) leadership when products are most at stake. Google’s online apps, email and evolving omnimedia in Internet life needs a courageous hand at the tiller.

As Silicon Valley has ebbed and flowed in the last decade and then gone back out with the tide, dynamics like those posed with respect to FaceBook in the Social Network and other dotcom stories have never touched the giant that is Google. Ebay, IBM, Microsoft, Apple Computers, Yahoo, and other online behemoths have settled into their respective territories. Google is generally regarded as valuable rather than on the cutting edge among anaysts.

But this was the year FaceBook roared, in 2010 and probably louder in 2011 as well. Google, whose footprint currently is stamped in SEO, Android and online apps, will cement a possible social networking presence online soon. They’ll have to, with so many age rank and indexing players getting into the game (Yahoo, Bing). And if Google sees which way the wind is blowing, it might want to get into the domain business. Before Facebook does.

Zuckerberg Very Timely

Time Magazine that once-august publication looked up to by so many has now branded Mark Zuckerberg, the entrepreneur behind Facebook, as the King of the Internet hill. Time usually picks people who settle peace treaties or get Nobel prizes. But this time around the global universality of Facebook could not be defriended. The Time Magazine Person of the Year cements Zuckerberg’s omnipresence with Martha Stewart level media saturation.

The movie bearing the name of the Facebook claim to fame (The Social Network) came out this year and made headlines with box office sales. With Zynga’s Facebook game Cityville scoring 45 million active users in its first week, the add-in and Facebook functionality value to any domain or website cannot be overestimated. The more mobile Facebook gets, the more mobile end users will get. Domain development should follow suit.

The Social Network : Is it a good movie, or do audiences like it because it chronicles an era and media phenomenon somewhat more accessible in daily life than the SALT II treaty?The movie crossover can’t help but be hyped by the clicks to billions that Zuckerberg helped make happen.

The Social Network has garnered extremely distinguished acting and producing honors from the film industry’s top awards nominations, and it could be the “Like” of the Oscar ceremonies as well. Six Golden Globe nominations and SAG nominations mean serous cred for a “movie about a website”. For a site that rebuilt the way people communicate and relate daily online, Zuckerberg isn’t doing too shabby.

FaceBook Makes the Cover of Time

When is a website a socially defining cultural phenomenon? When it begins to define the way we live. The cover of Time magazine and the interior article by Dan Fletcher explores not only the popularity of this website that started as a domain name, and encompasses the vast scope of social interaction as the Internet has changed it forever.

FaceBook has 500 million users. There are entire countries whose hosting capability doesn’t have the capacity to host that kind of traffic. On page 37 of the current edition of TIME there is a global penetration diagram showing how Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook share world domination. But the real news is how the evolving practices of online sharing and information architecture delimit security and privacy in an increasingly transparent internet social living space.

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Michael Jackson Death nearly crashes Web

A major force in popular culture, contemporary music, visual media, and modern dance has died and the world is the poorer for it. Michael Jackson at 50 has died entirely too soon to suit hundreds of millions of people on earth. But they all rushed to the internet to talk about it, proving once again that social networking operates as a universal benchmark of what people are cocnerned about.

Michael Jackson’s death Thursday afternoon has brought enough world emotional impact that individuals across the planet looking for more information and consolation crashed Twitter and the Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia entry. Emotion ran high and fans erected memorial sites. Facebook and Youtube participated in each other’s bandwidth helix of shutdown pain.