I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google+ was, to my mind, all about creating a first-party data connection between Google most important services - search, mail, YouTube, Android/Play,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Step one of Street View was to get the pictures in place - in a few short years, we've gotten used to… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I'm quite certain the Windows 8 team is preparing to market IE 10 - and by extension, Windows 8 - as the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google Now supplants the need to open an app by surfacing cards - cards that magically turn into just the information you… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google likely never cared if Google+ 'won' as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google Now is one of those products that to many users doesn't seem like a product at all. It is instead the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea.… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites are the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
