Brennan’s Blog

To unify all of their useful services there is now a personalized Google Portal of sorts. It is very sparse but the features it uses are more advanced than you will find most anywhere else. Notice after you check the boxes for the features you choose to place on your home page that you can drag and drop the headers to the different parts of the page. Also, when you click "edit" the preferences appear inline and as you complete the changes you do not see the page flicker with a reload.

I found it funny the other day when Steve Ballmer announced that Google would simply disappear within 5 years. What bothers me is that Microsoft cannot simply existing with a competitor. They feel they must destroy the competition which only causes their monopoly to deepen and kill innovation. Sure you can make an argument that they innovate, but most of what they come up with is from destroyed companies in their wake. Microsoft really needs a corporate makeover. Perhaps the ever increasing popularity of Google and Apple with the iPod will cause Microsoft to learn some humility.

Also, the XBox along with Playstation and the Nintendo lines just showed off there next revisions. The PS3 looks pretty sweet. Sony really should develop something to take on Halo. I would go so far as to say Sony and Nintendo should create a game development alliance to create games which do not run on the XBox. That may be a nasty tactic, but it is not nearly as bad as Microsoft purchasing Bungie Software, the maker of Halo and a strong Apple supporter, only to release Halo only for the XBox and much, much later for the PC and Mac. And even now Halo 2 is on the XBox but we wait and wait for a PC release.