viernes, 21 de diciembre de 2007

Googleship

I wrote in my first post that maybe in the worst case you could make a 100 USD if you receive 50,000 visitors on your website per day (that's a lot!!!), that is just how this Googleship (partnership) works out!!. Making some research about this new advertiser model, I found out that there are many predictions on how much advertiser will pay this year (2007) [1,2] and they all predicted that there are billions of USD in that sort of business, so no matter which is the exact amount of money that's in play definitely is a good business. But the question still open, how can I have a little slice from that??. I came up with this Googleship, since I have nothing in/with the USA, it was relatively easy to sign into the Google's AdSense [3] program, I guess now I have some kind of partnership with them (Google). That is the reason why are some ads in this blog. The point in this post is how a company that lacked of a business model in the beginning now is the king in revenues??, It's seems that they have and endless pocket and most of the money they got is from this Googleship that they have with thousands of companies and people around the world, for me is the beginning of a new project and experiment, maybe this all about "one nickel at a time", as John Battelle puts it in his book (The Search).

References:
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7125666.stm
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/
AP-Google-DoubleClick-Antitrust.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
[3]
http://www.google.com/adsense

viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2007

How to participate in this knowledge economy

Bill Gates wrote "...there's no doubt that the ability to use software tools effectively is critical to succeeding in today's global knowledge economy" [1], what I like about that sentence is because he mentioned 'knowledge economy' and 'ability to use software tools effectively', both issues illustrate what is going on. So how can we participate in this scenery with full of opportunities?, there are many answers, from my point of view if you are smart enough to figure out that you have the right information in the precise time the opportunities are endless, there are many examples that could corroborate. The problem come when there are people that do not have access to the information (knowledge) or when folks do not have internet, in this knowledge economy we have to eradicate those problems, if people have the knowledge they are going to be productive and generate resources (money), and that will help a lot to reduce the poverty and also to finance the space's conquest, maybe we could have a especial tax for that. Another important issue in this topic is to be the most productive, I mean we have to work in a place where we can generate knowledge and share it, if you are already doing that great! and if not put your brain to work and try to fit in the right place according to your skills. About the ability to use software tools effectively, the one laptop per child (OLPC) [2,3] project is just great!!, definitely will help to bring more people (those kids are the future in achieve more knowledge too) into this knowledge economy.

References:
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7142073.stm
[2] http://www.olpc.com/
[3] http://laptop.org/

jueves, 13 de diciembre de 2007

The Matrix can help us to conquest the space (part one)

There are three main issues that we as species must work really hard in parallel, the first one and most important is the eradication of poverty, then come the global climate change and the third one is the space's conquest [1], in this post I will put my thoughts about the third issue. There are some problems that cannot be solved with the currently technology (I mean hardware and software), we need more powerful and intelligence computers.

Lets begin with the hardware, I read [2] that Gordon Moore (co-founder of Intel) told to the BBC that Moore's Law (the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years [3]) will only continue from another decade, that put us a limit despite the currently amazing technology that we have, for example the Dual-Core Intel has more than 1,000,000,000 transistors in a single microprocessor [3] (AMD is doing a good job too), that mean it is capable of processing and enormous quantity of data (information), but some problems might take years to be solved because of the limitations of the bits ("1" or "0"), for that reason the smart people came up with the qubits [4] ("1" or "0" or both at the same time) this is known as quantum computer, and will be able to work through many problems and achive their solutions simultaneously, so with that type of hardware we can make software with incredible artificial intelligence (AI) features. That is exactly what we need to conquest the space, those softwares could be embedded in the spacecrafts, many devices and in the robots.

Robots must be autonomous because they will have to deal with a lot of problems in the space conquest, they will help us giving solutions (with AI complex algorithms using qubits instead of the classical bits), like fixing some problem in the spacecraft, monitoring the environment, programing a new software (because there is a new requirement), building facilities, almost dealing with all the tasks. I think robots, softwares and hardwares will merge into the famous Matrix [5] that will help us, imagine travelling months, years that will be very stressful for the humans, so lets use the Matrix.

I will explain more about the Matrix's job in another post.

References:
[1] http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Global_Space_Exploration/
index.html
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7080772.stm
[3] http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/index.htm
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7085019.stm
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix

miércoles, 12 de diciembre de 2007

The lack of an adequate infrastructure for the internet start-ups

Before I read this article [1] I knew that Silicon Valley is already in another level (maybe in another world!), but now I realize that the Europeans are worry too (so I am), another article [2] written by the entrepreneur Kulveer Taggar explained that he had to move from Oxford to Silicon Valley and says "London is especially hard for internet start-ups because it is expensive", and from my experience I can say that Lima in Peru (I am living there currently) lacks from venture capitals so it is almost impossible to start-up an internet project. Both cities complete different seems to share the same problem the lack of an adequate infrastructure for the internet start-ups. But the Europeans are doing something to compete with the US' west coast, I guess that is the main reason of The LeWeb conference [3].

This issue is very important, because we are in the knowledge century and internet for me is the main driver of it, all the human's actual information is there, the search engines can tell us what is out there in the cyberspace, they actually know our behavior as a society, with that enormous tool we can figure out where is the power now. So for that and endless reasons we must have the adequate infrastructure for the internet start-ups, those projects might be as successful,useful as Google and could help us to organize all the information that is scattered.

References:
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7139175.stm
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6355289.stm
[3] http://www.leweb3.com/

martes, 11 de diciembre de 2007

Is it possible to make money from the web's ads??

Bill Thompson from the BBC wrote in [1] that according to ZenithOptimedia, advertisers will spend 448 US$ bn worldwide in 2007. That is just a lot of money, I can see why Google has an endless pocket. My question is how can I get a slice from that?. First I will have to build a really good and innovate web application or make a nice and useful website, so I decided to make some research, I found that Hal Varian (Chief Economist from Google) [2] says that 2% of ads might get clicks. So with that information I made an example: (I guess this could be the worst scenery).

Traffic (users per day)

% Successfuly clicks

Profit per click US$

Total US$ income per day

1000

2

0.10

2

5000

2

0.10

10

10,000

2

0.10

20

50,000

2

0.10

100

100,000

2

0.10

200

500,000

2

0.10

1000

1,000,000

2

0.10

2000

5,000,000

2

0.10

10,000

10,000,000

2

0.10

20,000

50,000,000

2

0.10

100,000

100,000,000

2

0.10

200,000

500,000,000

2

0.10

1,000,000

1,000,000,000

2

0.10

2,000,000


Your ads's income could start to be interesting if you receive 50,000 of people every day, that is 100 US$ (Google pay you checks since 100 US$). It can be disappointed, so much work to receive only 100 US$!!!, seems a bad a idea, but I still believe that I can do a better job, the idea is to make something new and useful, I will still thinking, maybe I will come up with an idea. If I am wrong let me know it.

References:
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7125666.stm
[2]http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i141/f07/
lectures/varian-search-engine-economics.pdf (page3)