Comments on: How Google Can Eat Amazon’s Lunch

By: Episode 17 | Technology Gazette Podcast

Episode 17 | Technology Gazette Podcast — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:18:18 +0000

[...] Google + Free= Amazon Web Service’s Demise, yeah right! (link) [...]

By: Google Cloud Now on Tap for Web Developers - GigaOM

Google Cloud Now on Tap for Web Developers - GigaOM — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:59:08 +0000

[...] Even with limits, this is exactly the type of service Dave Winer last week, after a conversation with a pig, predicted. This type of loss-leader service gets startups in the door with Google, giving the company access to the freshest ideas and an entrepreneurial talent pool that it can tap. Kevin Kelleher called it the way Google can eat Amazon’s lunch. [...]

By: Technology Gazette » Blog Archive » Episode 17-

Technology Gazette » Blog Archive » Episode 17- — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:44:57 +0000

[...] + Free= Amazon Web Service’s Demise, yeah right! (link) Microsoft Surface to Arrive on April 17th 2008 [...]

By: Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:07:48 +0000

PIG = Person In Google :)

By: Google vs. Amazon: Free vs. Paid » Expert Idiot

Google vs. Amazon: Free vs. Paid » Expert Idiot — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:44:43 +0000

[...] there is a possibility Google is thinking outside of their advertising box, Kevin Kelleher over at GigaOM proposes that they move forward with this idea. As valued Google workers pack up their desks and [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:35:21 +0000

Couldn’t google eat amazon’s lunch just by cutting them out of their index?

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:39:00 +0000

I share Ed’s concern, but I had that concern about GMail too, and now I depend on it.

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:37 +0000

[...] How Google Can Eat Amazon’s Lunch I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but I’m going to do it. Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how […] [...]

By: foz

foz — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:41:44 +0000

Google needs to launch competition to eBay. They are the only ones that can do it… eBay is screwing everyone…

By: Television Voyeur

Television Voyeur — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:36:01 +0000

Good read, interesting to see where this all goes. I’m not sure they’ll venture into the web services game in regards to Amazon’s services. I mean I’d like to see them do a free version of S3 - it is very possible since Google holds the majority of bandwidth, but something tells me that they wouldn’t be willingly to do it for free - it doesn’t make good business sense. How do you monetize that as well using banners?

By: FuzzLinks.com » How Google Can Eat Amazonâ

FuzzLinks.com » How Google Can Eat Amazonâ — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:19:38 +0000

[...] I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but I’m going to do it. Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how blogs have become an ecosystem of recycled conversations about an original thought that happened long ago. Even so, I am going to talk about a post that Dave Winer wrote this weekend.http://gigaom.com/2008/03/31/how-google-can-eat-amazons-lunch/” rel=”dc:source” pr… [...]

By: spootmonkey

spootmonkey — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:17:28 +0000

Google drinks Amazon’s milkshake. It drinks it all up!!

By: Essays

Essays — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:18:27 +0000

Employees and companies have been doing this for a long, long time. It’s not new to Google or Amazon.

By: Brian Magritte

Brian Magritte — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:58:58 +0000

Ben Macalester,

I don't like to be playing kindergarten teacher here, but you could have made the same --- quite interesting point -- without resorting to name calling or hostility. I'm not sure what that accomplishes, and a change in tone definitely detracts from this interesting debate.

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:23:49 +0000

A big part of me wonders with the commoditization of the CDN space, why Google doesn't move into this space, tier out a set of free or ad supported infrastructure services (e.g. video, photo hosting, social networking, commerce) and offer premium versions with guaranteed throughput and no ad support restrictions.

Forget the M&A and go after the developer universe. After all, he who wins the hearts and minds of the developer ecosystem secures the gold. Google owns consumers and marketers, but what about developers?

Besides, knowing what apps and what functions are popular and what types of users fall into what buckets is also incredibly valuable from an engagement metrics perspective.

A bit off topic, here is a post on the Google M&A game, "So you think you're Google-worthy?

http://thenetworkgarden.com/weblog/2005/09/so_you_think_yo.html

Check it out if interested.

Mark

By: Ben Macalester

Ben Macalester — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:17:20 +0000

Kevin,

If you think Amazon’s “turnaround”, and I believe you are reffereing to the valuation, is based on its web services business you are an idiot. They sell stuff. Web services is a small line item the with little added cost, not the entire buiness model. You should change the title to “How Google can Eat Amazon’s After Dinner Snack” and save your dramatic overstatements for your blog.