Comments on: Updated: Why Google Would Want to Buy Valve

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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:07:53 +0000

[...] surprised to hear about these kinds of negotiations, with industry insiders loudly crowing that it was about time that some company develop the strength to insist on [...]

By: fritz

fritz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:39:55 +0000

here is what i think

os + chrome + gears

they have three of those combine it with checkout you have a payment system where you can buy movies on youtube(or any other google content) and watch it

with the recent adwords foray into tv ads i had a feeling that google is trying to do what apple has been trying to do convert the computer into a multimedia center for the home and this ad formats will gradually make their way into youtube when the time is right

so what is missing
well something to connect this components together payment + content + delivery channel ( chrome or a google os) with googles servers

and dont forget they have peakstream too for parallel processing

By: Alex Berger

Alex Berger — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:33:13 +0000

What you’re also missing is what this means for the Lively platform. The acquisition of Valve would grant access to powerful gaming engines, which could easily be adapted to power Lively and other similar services.

Instead of the historic approach where VW developers are focused on developing new content from the ground up, they should be looking at pre-existing engines and technology already light years ahead of their ground up approach and exploring how to adapt and implement that technology in a professional fashion.