Google’s quest to (re)open and accelerate the internet
Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsI’ve been an outspoken critic of Google over the years, admiring some of its products (Search, SMS, News, etc.) while deriding its relationship to open source and deprecating most of its products.
There appears to be, however, a new Google afoot, and it’s one that I like quite a bit. Google might need to change its slogan from “Don’t be evil” to “Be open,” as this looks to be the direction it is going. At Google I/O this day, Google announced a few things that make me feel like the future of the web is much safer in its hands than in Microsoft’s (if Microsoft ever figures out the internet at all).
First, as ReadWriteWeb rightly applauds, Google is dropping its name from its Gears project, a
symbolic move aimed at reinforcing Google’s commitment to working with existing standards communities and helping them to define superior open standards for bridging on the web applications and the offline world.
Indeed, Google’s Gears Engineer Aaron Boodman writes that Gears “aims to bring emerging web standards to as many devices as possible, as swiftly as possible.”
More open, much sooner.
In Google’s increasingly open world, Steve Ballmer’s insistence that Vista “is not a failure and it’s not a mistake” talks to the wrong questions surrounding the much maligned operating system. What he should be protesting is that “It’s not irrelevant.”
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