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It seems the credit crunch has taken toll on Google also. I think they are finally deviating from their motto of “Do no evil”. Google UK has finally allowed gambling advertisements in UK.

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Tim O’Reilly who coined the term Web 2.0 has corrected the definition of Web 2.0 and offered more clarity on what the term means in present context.

“I define Web 2.0 as the design of systems that harness network effects to get better the more people use them, or more colloquially, as “harnessing collective intelligence.” This includes explicit network-enabled collaboration, to be sure, but it should encompass every way that people connected to a network create synergistic effects.”

The impetus for Tim’s post was that people leave Google and its search engine off the list of Web 2.0 companies. As Tim writes, seeing the power of what Google’s search engine did was part of the notion of Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 more than explicit Scoicalness

Via blog ‘I’m Not Actually a Geek’

Google plans to bring disruptive change in the relationship between mobile user and telephone networks. Google will make the mobile user free from the mercy of mobile networks. Mobile users will not be tied to just one network.

Mobile networks will be bidding to carry your call/data hence giving user best and cheapest possible option at all times. Mobile user will be king again. Mobile users will switch the networks several times a day depending upon best and cheapest carrier for their call.

What is in it for Google?

Several ways Google can make money from this.

1) Provide this market place where mobile networks will bid to carry mobile users call.
2) Targeted advertisement to mobile handsets.
3) More users using Google to do more searches and using more and more of Google services without worried about shackles of mobile networks.

Google has revealed this grand disruptive plan of open networks in a patent application filed with US patent office. 

Abstract of Google’s patent applicaion Flexible Communication Systems and Methods.

“A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication session, receiving from at least one of the one or more of telecommunication carriers a bid to carry the telecommunications session, and automatically selecting one of the telecommunications carriers from the carriers submitting a bid, and initiating the telecommunication session through the selected telecommunication carrier.”

I will update this post with more detailed analysis of this patent and disruptive possibility this can bring to mobile industry.

VentureBeat is reporting to have receieved a tip that Amazon might launch a music/movie download service for T-Mobile G1 aka Dream phone that runs andriod from Google. This will place it head to head with IPhone Itunes Combo.

Link to story.

Update at 10:19 EST :

 ”Amazon wants to make it easy for customers to discover, buy, and play their music wherever they happen to be–whether sitting at their computer or on the go,” said Bill Carr, Amazon.com Vice President for Digital Music and Video. “We look forward to the release of the T-Mobile G1, which will put Amazon MP3’s vast selection of low-priced DRM-free music at the fingertips of even more customers in more places.”

The T-Mobile G1 comes pre-loaded with an Amazon MP3 application, giving customers a phone-optimized version of the Amazon MP3 store and the immediate gratification of buying and playing their favorite music. Amazon MP3 has worked to make its DRM-free music available through numerous products and services, such as Pandora MySpace Music, and now Android and T-Mobile G1.

Downloading music from Amazon MP3 using the T-Mobile G1 requires a Wi-Fi connection but searching, browsing, listening to samples and buying MP3s can be done wherever customers are connected to the T-Mobile network. Downloaded MP3s can be played anytime on the T-Mobile G1, PCs, Macs or any other MP3 music player.

Launched in September 2007, Amazon MP3 offers a massive selection of DRM-free MP3 music downloads with more than 6 million songs from thousands of record labels. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software, enabling customers to play their music on virtually any personal digital music-capable device, including PCs, Macs(R), iPods(R), iPhones(R), Zunes(TM), Zens(TM), and to burn songs to CDs for these customers’ personal use. Amazon MP3’s 100 bestselling songs are 89 cents, unless otherwise marked, with over 1 million songs available at 89 cents. Amazon MP3’s 100 bestselling albums are $8.99 or less, unless otherwise marked. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99, with more than 80 percent of Amazon MP3’s album catalog priced at $8.99 or below…”

Amazon confirm music service for Andriod phone in the their press release.

Want Instant gratification with Linux Live CD and don’t have patience to burn a CD/DVD for trying? Well MobaLiveCD allows you to do just this.

All you need to do is download your favourite Live CD distriution and run it from MobaLiveCD emulator. No burning CD and rebooting. It’s a small executable that is just 1.6MB and can be run from a USB stick also.

I will update this post with after I try few Live CD’s. Do update the post with your experiences and linux distros tried.