Is it just me, or Gmail's been very slow lately? Hopefully Google's making tests for the virtual operating system that has been very speculated about.

On a related note I was chatting over lunch with a high school buddy of mine about Google and its potential of beating and eventually becoming the next Microsoft. He was saying that Google is far from being there in spite of the shitload of money it's making for the simply fact that the business model is centered around Ad-Sense only. Besides, he claimed, the new innovative products emerging one after the other are more of a result of the coolness factor and less of an economic analysis. ("wouldn't be cool to do that?") While I tend not to agree with him, there's some consistency in what he says - though this clearly exemplifies chaos management (complexity theory) - and we have several examples of successful companies managed this way. Of course, it all starts from how we define success.

Incidentally last year my friend had an offer from each Microsoft and Google, both declined.