Brian S Hall

I had submitted a link to a story about this tweet: http://brianshall.com/blog/does-morgan-missen-have-thing-really-really… Since I had no idea who this person was. Some sort of self promoting recruiter.

http://www.brianshall.com/content/motorola-mmi-reminds-microsoft-and-g… Correctly interpreting - if not actual tarot reading.

Brian sounds like an angry google hater. If you read some of his other blog posts, you will see that he sensationalizes his headlines. He says that the cameraman wears google glasses, but then provides no evidence. He also has a post where he somehow twists a commercial [1] for google glass showing a mother, child, father, and friends all using glass to do a hangout into "Google Glasses commercial encourages taking video of womens[sic] tits and uploading it to Youtube", a title concerning a video that includes no nudity and no youtube uploading. Privacy is a major concern with things like this, and I am worried that it will be violated with the glass product, but I'm really more worried that I'll be the one violating my own privacy on accident rather than some perv spying on me with it. If you think about it, the guy with the hidden camera on the train is far less conspicuous than a guy wearing "GOOGLE GLASSES (TM)" and staring at you. 1: http://www.brianshall.com/content/google-glasses-commercial-encourages…

A few points: -Google is also in the hardware business (Chromebooks) and soon (Motorola). -Google is the target of several antitrust and patent lawsuits. Two years ago, Google offered to buy Yelp, but the talks broke down. Last year, Google introduced Places, a Yelp-like service for listing businesses and collecting consumer reviews. A Google search for a restaurant often displays the Places entry — linked to a map, user reviews and other services — ahead of Yelp. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/technology/googles-to-face-congressi… Actually here's a more complete (& funny) list from http://brianshall.com/content/google-are-pussies Yelp gets popular? Copy their info, shove Yelp to the bottom of the page and put Google Places and reviews at the top. Groupon won't sell? Spend billions from other businesses to destroy them. Twitter and Facebook innovate on search? Take their content, whine when they try and stop you then spend billions to prevent their growth and hopefully destroy them. Apple working on a touchscreen smartphone? Spend billions from another business and copy everything you can, down to swipes and apps. Need a smartphone operating system with Java. Take Java and use it for your own ends. Need a location mapping technology and Skyhook won't sell? Spend billions from your monopoly profits and strongarm your partners and drive Skyhook out of business. …