Google to Roll-out PayPal Competitor
Google to Roll-out PayPal Competitor - Softpedia News: "Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is making preparations towards releasing a new electronic payment system which will a direct competitor to eBay?s PayPal."
Okay. That's bizarre.
Google's the King in a few areas, and seems to be actively resisting the actual act of gluing those bits together; instead, it wants to do something completely different.
Google has gmail, and compared to Yahoo or Hotmail, it's awesome: huge storage, zippy feel, the whole thing. Google's got Orkut, a network toy for friends to meet their friends' friends. It's SixDegrees done way better. Blogger, which it more acquired than built, also rocks about 99% of the time. Google's the master at search, but its control of your browser - for isn't it the first place you go for news and decent searches? C'mon, you know it - and its handling of your email more than screams Messaging as a new technology.
In fact, many folks have said, many times, that google should step forward with a killer IM app. Take GAIM, employ 2-3 GAIM developers to make it Killer, set up a Jabber server on all nodes of their farm, figure the cross-server synch problems, and they'd crush AOL virtually overnight.
But here they are, dinking around with pay stuff. Paypal? Isn't that such a dead idea that no one else wanted to even try it? eGold, Flooz, it's all been done before, and it's all flopped. Paypal is the shit.
The only saving grace is the awesome superiority of Google Maps, that shining beacon of all that's right in the miasmatic swamp of Internet Mapping and Direction services. It certainly kills yahoo, mapquest and mapblast; they really don't have a fucking chance, as anyone can see after a brief comparison between the interfaces -- or is click-and-wait any competition to maps that scroll and resize intuitively and automatically? Really, as soon as maps.google.com is polished, mapquest and its ilk are extinct.
Can Google take a tired idea like paypal and rebuilt it into something special, something wonderful and instantly superior to the entrenched competition? Maybe. If anyone can, then google will. But can they continue to win? David - which is a faked story anyway - can't beat Goliath on a daily basis.
Just, guys, please spend some of your brain power on making a killer Jabber server first, guys. Sell it with your gmail and enterprise search application, as the missing messaging link. It'd be a hit; I know it. Just do it before you guys finally fail to astound and start hemorrhaging disappointed geniuses.
Because that's never good.
Okay. That's bizarre.
Google's the King in a few areas, and seems to be actively resisting the actual act of gluing those bits together; instead, it wants to do something completely different.
Google has gmail, and compared to Yahoo or Hotmail, it's awesome: huge storage, zippy feel, the whole thing. Google's got Orkut, a network toy for friends to meet their friends' friends. It's SixDegrees done way better. Blogger, which it more acquired than built, also rocks about 99% of the time. Google's the master at search, but its control of your browser - for isn't it the first place you go for news and decent searches? C'mon, you know it - and its handling of your email more than screams Messaging as a new technology.
In fact, many folks have said, many times, that google should step forward with a killer IM app. Take GAIM, employ 2-3 GAIM developers to make it Killer, set up a Jabber server on all nodes of their farm, figure the cross-server synch problems, and they'd crush AOL virtually overnight.
But here they are, dinking around with pay stuff. Paypal? Isn't that such a dead idea that no one else wanted to even try it? eGold, Flooz, it's all been done before, and it's all flopped. Paypal is the shit.
The only saving grace is the awesome superiority of Google Maps, that shining beacon of all that's right in the miasmatic swamp of Internet Mapping and Direction services. It certainly kills yahoo, mapquest and mapblast; they really don't have a fucking chance, as anyone can see after a brief comparison between the interfaces -- or is click-and-wait any competition to maps that scroll and resize intuitively and automatically? Really, as soon as maps.google.com is polished, mapquest and its ilk are extinct.
Can Google take a tired idea like paypal and rebuilt it into something special, something wonderful and instantly superior to the entrenched competition? Maybe. If anyone can, then google will. But can they continue to win? David - which is a faked story anyway - can't beat Goliath on a daily basis.
Just, guys, please spend some of your brain power on making a killer Jabber server first, guys. Sell it with your gmail and enterprise search application, as the missing messaging link. It'd be a hit; I know it. Just do it before you guys finally fail to astound and start hemorrhaging disappointed geniuses.
Because that's never good.
posted by Westley | 1:40 PM
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