rootbear75 Posted July 5, 2009 Report Posted July 5, 2009 (edited) If the internet was a country, who would you vote for.See candidate entries here, and read the article: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=1894 If you dont like them, write in your candidate, and post it here.The Internet is a global community with over one billion residents. If it were a formal nation, who would its citizens elect as their fearless leader? Here are four candidates that I propose for a mock election. Make your vote count. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Since this is the time of year when we celebrate the founding of the United States as a nation on July 4, 1776 and since the Internet has become an ad-hoc nation of its own with over a billion citizens, it’s the perfect time to have a little fun and speculate about who the people of the Internet would choose if they could elect a leader. Others have joked about this idea in the past. Now it’s time to get serious — or at least as serious as you can for a mock election. I’d like to nominate four candidates for the fictional office of President of the Internet. All four are very talented individuals that have a vision of where the Internet needs to go and each would lead the Internet into an even brighter future. For more information on this mock election and insights on other tech topics, follow my Twitter stream at twitter.com/jasonhiner These four candidates are all fairly neutral and objective thought leaders (though all highly-opinionated). I avoided nominating leaders from the Internet’s most prominent companies, even though I was tempted by Google’s Larry Page and Cisco’s John Chambers, for example. I realize the irony that all of these proposed candidates are Americans — in fact, they’re all Americans living in California — while the Internet is truly a global phenomenon. I will partly blame the irony on the fact that this is being posted on American independence day. I considered several international thought leaders, such as Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, but in the end I simply found these four candidates to be the most compelling.. Edited July 5, 2009 by rootbear75
GameTime Posted July 5, 2009 Report Posted July 5, 2009 I want to vote for my penis as president of the internets because everyone knows the internets are for porn and nothing else.
Chambahs Posted July 6, 2009 Report Posted July 6, 2009 I vote for me, cuz Im good at telling everyone what to do without doing shit. Being me is awesome.
Trained Posted July 6, 2009 Report Posted July 6, 2009 I would vote for Google, they put their eggs in many baskets, including Audreys.
jacob hunter! Posted July 7, 2009 Report Posted July 7, 2009 Google won't be at the top forever. Nope, only for a few centuries.
FMBI Posted July 10, 2009 Report Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) Google won't be at the top forever. Let's see... Bing's at 1/5 of Google's market share percentage, and might be reasonably expected to pick up a few percent a month for a few months, after which it will level off and go nowhere for the next 15 years, because Microsoft never improves a product until they're getting their ass kicked halfway from here to Tomsk. Meanwhile, Google launches their Chrome operating system, which, while it kinda sucks ass, will probably be innovated upon to the point where it'll be a super-convenient way to watch porn and hold meetings at the same time, all within a year or so. I'm betting on Google. Also: The internet thrives on anarchy. The very notion of giving it a president is like giving a fully functioning human brain to a monkey and then asking why it likes to run around in the jungle and eat fruit. It won't be the same thing anymore, hence the question becomes pointless. Edited July 10, 2009 by Finland My BorgInvasion
rootbear75 Posted July 10, 2009 Author Report Posted July 10, 2009 the fact is, IE automatically uses Bing as a search engine. People searching in the address bar really dont have a choice unless they go into their options. Its also certainly not an option for any versions before IE7
Samapico Posted July 10, 2009 Report Posted July 10, 2009 Why is it the first time I hear about Bing?
Suicide_Run Posted July 10, 2009 Report Posted July 10, 2009 Why is it the first time I hear about Bing?Your not the only one. Watch Google take over Twitter or something and it becomes even bigger
Hakaku Posted July 10, 2009 Report Posted July 10, 2009 the fact is, IE automatically uses Bing as a search engine. People searching in the address bar really dont have a choice unless they go into their options. Its also certainly not an option for any versions before IE7How is this fact important at all? Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and IceWeasel all use Google as the default search engine, essentially granting it a monopoly, unless you change your options... If you're still using anything below IE7, then that's your problem. Might as well whine that Netscape 7 basically only allows the Netscape Search Engine. Honestly though, in all of the most recent version of these browsers, changing the search engine is merely two clicks away, I don't see it affecting much the general trend at all (heck, did anyone even use MSN/Live Search before it was rebranded as Bing?).
»Lynx Posted July 11, 2009 Report Posted July 11, 2009 Google won't be at the top forever. Let's see... Bing's at 1/5 of Google's market share percentage, and might be reasonably expected to pick up a few percent a month for a few months, after which it will level off and go nowhere for the next 15 years, because Microsoft never improves a product until they're getting their ass kicked halfway from here to Tomsk. Meanwhile, Google launches their Chrome operating system, which, while it kinda sucks ass, will probably be innovated upon to the point where it'll be a super-convenient way to watch porn and hold meetings at the same time, all within a year or so. I'm betting on Google. Also: The internet thrives on anarchy. The very notion of giving it a president is like giving a fully functioning human brain to a monkey and then asking why it likes to run around in the jungle and eat fruit. It won't be the same thing anymore, hence the question becomes pointless. Eh, firstly Bing isn't Googles major competitor, Yahoo is (which has only recently found it's self new management prior to it's loss in market-share over late 2007-May 2009) - and Bing is literally fresh out of the box. I remember when Alta Vista was at the top of the bunch, and remember others holding the podium. Google has stupid market-share right now, but to assume that it can inevitably keep it is just very naive. There will always be something better, more diverse, more personalised (Facebook search rumors) in the future. And something about Chrome OS? Oh, you mean that operating system that is basically like any other stripped down Linux operating system, built by the same corp. who made Android (which is terribad)... C'mon, let's face it - that OS will only apply to Netbooks, which must only apply to about .1% of the market - and probably won't even be glanced upon by conservative sysadmins (which pretty much puts it right out of the business market). -L
»Lynx Posted July 11, 2009 Report Posted July 11, 2009 Google won't be at the top forever. Nope, only for a few centuries. Brave estimation for a company that is just about a decade old.
rootbear75 Posted July 11, 2009 Author Report Posted July 11, 2009 (edited) (heck, did anyone even use MSN/Live Search before it was rebranded as Bing?).i only did by accident.. Edited July 11, 2009 by rootbear75
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