The Genius of the Google Borg Continues
It looks like Google will be rolling out an increase in Gmail and shared storage today. If they go with pricing of $1 per year, and require Google Pay to do it: it’s absolutely genius.
Regardless of the pricing, they are integrating the photo sharing into the shared storage. That will drive the community building effort of G-flickr Picasa Web Album. The more a user uploads to Google, the less likely that user is to leave and the more likely that user is to use incremental Google Services. Once they get all their users payment information, they’ll be in a position to challenge Paypal. Once photos are uploaded, how hard is it going to be to push and integrate Orkut?
It’s a very smart move. The real question is why does it take Yahoo and Microsoft so long to think of this shit? Why are they never first with any great ideas?
Google’s mission: All your base are belong to us.
Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Green Guy
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