Richard Brandt does Google...

I tend also to read the blogs that the “intelligent agents” that I have in my aggregator read. My friend Shel pointed me to Richard Brandt’s blog on Google.

I have added Brandt to my aggregator, and while not knowing Bradt, I do know Shel, and have a high degree of confidence in his skill and intelligence as a writer.

In this post, Brandt opines on the Google/Sun love fest, and mulls over the impact of a little duet between the two wherein Google gives away free Wifi and Sun does a network box that uses Google’s various tools, and the rumored free WiFi from Google.

While I would like to think that it is the extreme coincidence of great minds working togther, but maybe just luck in that I found myself the other day telling a friend, that I could easily imagine a scenario wherein Google looked at their top 25 markets and rolled out free WiFi for those who had Gmail..and Google Talk, and whammo the local ISP’s, Telco’s and others in those spaces would find themselves seriously screwed.

I have become a Starbuck’s regular, but if there were Google free WiFi, one would be able to work/meet anywhere. When you think for a moment about the implications of this kind of service, you can pretty much assume that the tech world would change in seismic fashion.

 

 

 

Comments

[Richard Brandt]

I like the theory that great minds think alike :)

You're one of the few other people who share my view. But I now think that Google will go beyond just offering it to people with gmail. By offering free wifi, it gets more people online, and more likely to use google.

And if sun builds a cheap computer with free internet and a Google toolbar, Nicrosoft has a real challenge.

Thanks for the comment!