Google's formula for success: Step 1) Make a beta web app, Step 2) ???, Step 3) profit
Step 2a is to harvest all information for better ad targeting, step 2b is to sell ads. - Andrew C (✔)
Step 4) kill project - lris
The other day I realized that all of the Step 2's in all of the jokes like this are "sell advertising" - Meg VMeg
I mean, it's not like this is a Web 1.0 business model of "lose money on every transaction, ???, profit". - Andrew C (✔)
Yeah, it's the Google business model where you do something inexplicable with one of your products for reasons unknown and continue to make money. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Step 2c: Hire Louis Gray - Johnny
Step 2d: Get a Scoble in the shower - Johnny
You guys are like Richard Pryor trying to make Kryptonite in Superman III. Tar is not a suitable replacement for ??? :D - Scoble, Alex Scoble
$ tar -xvf alex_scoble.tar.gz misc/ - Louis Gray
Watch out folks, Louis Gray just opened Pandora's Box! - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Zip it. - Laura Norvig
Step 5: get all users to use Google+ instead. - Steven Perez