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I See A Game Changer Through Google Glass
Sporting Google Glass in the NYC flagship Apple store - #BLASPHEMY!
The video below is my introduction to Google Glass. As I wear it
around NYC getting used to it, I offer feedback from the everyday
consumer on the street as well as the investment perspective behind it.
Google has almost consistently outgrown the adoption rate of web
advertising. What does this mean? Well, it means that although Web
advertising is getting bigger and more popular as a slice of the total
advertising pie, Google is getting even bigger and more dominant in the
space – not less. Google is beating competition back even as the market
grows!
Google ad growth
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The biggest risks to these price points are:
- A market that's being levitated by central bank magicians running short on magic spells...
- Regulatory pressure, which I feel is quite material and inevitable, but will not be a major factor in the near term.
- advertisements -
"It's Kissenger. honey get the children, RRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNN!"
So far as technology creating 'connection' between people quite the opposite is the case... Hence the modern derivation of the word avatar... And as surveillance has increased to unprecedented levels in new and fantastic ways we are all driven into hiding... Those of us with any sense...
Every day...sometimes three times a day, Tyler and ZH show me how far we have sunk, how low the parasitic corporations and goverment will stoop, and how soundly the sheepie sleep.We are sooooo fucked....
Like most Google products, its a fail out of the gate for now. GMail was awful too at first. Personally I hope for humanity's sake that it goes down in flames.Technology is going in the wrong direction. BUT, I am sure Google will persist and make it commonplace when the price comes down. I think the watch is a safer and better form factor for lightweight technology. IMHO
I'm not exactly sure I would be proud to sport new data collection devices for the NSA.
Do they come in 3D?
Goodbye and goodnight Reggie.
You weren't so bad when simply self-promoting via (legitimately) knocking Farcebook (and Apple), but now you have sold your "soul to the company store" of Google, right in the midst of revelations (not new to some) that Google is also complicit in the NSA scandal.
How much did Google pay you for this infomercial?
You are hot on at least some disclosures about vested interests, so how about coming clean on how much you got paid for this advert or, if you did it for free, please explain why you are SO naive/ignorant about NSA data-gathering via Google (which you apparently love) Farcebook and sundry other partners with NSA.
Come clean Reggie and do a Snowden for us, what with your insider knowledge and all.
Much as I would like to have young chicks groping me, please spare me the sight of you surrounded by teenage girls ... hey you ain't quite as ancient as Mick Jagger, but at least the Stones music still pulls the young chicks.
Please explain how your dry financial analyses pulls the birds, because I have never met ANY female interested in my take on matters economic (nor anything much else that men tend to be interested in, such as engineering and computers)
Pray tell why you surrounded yourself with air-heads to SELL Google?
Could it be because, ever since the first telephones were invented, it has been impossible to stop teenage girls gossiping on the phone for hours?
In any case Reggie, I am not alone in saying that you have just hit a new low in destroying your own self-admiring credibility ... ffs now propped up by a bevy of teenage girls in an advert for Google!
BTW Reggie, are you sure that all of your young groupies are at least 18?
If his analysis is as diligent as his workout regime, why not?
Nothing like recording everything you see for Goog to keep forever and pass on to the FBI, CIA, IRS. Saves them the trouble of watching you. You do it for them by wearing their glasses.
Hey Reggie,
Tell us again - about margin compression, and Google and Android taking over, and about how Apple is doomed...
I could do with a laugh.
this post officially marks
The Return of Leo
Go Solar!
These are not the droids you are looking for.
Reggie, was actually in an Apple store ??
I actually spend a lot of time in the Apple stores of several cities. That's how I knew when to short Apple. i look at how unpopular the truth is on this site. I got junked for the Apple short, junked for the Goldman Sachs short, junked for the Greece short. Now, you are considered cool and a guru if you said you made those calls.
To bad people invest with their hearts and their emotional likes/dislikes versus their brains and objective intelligence.
I was in the Festival Walk store this afternoon and I gave up because the staff were overwhelmed.
As far as I remember black rulers in Africa made also good deals with white slave traders;
slaves weren't so lucky for next 200 years
but the hell with people; Reggie's happiness is most important to us all
Pot/kettle Reggie.
You cannot tell me that there is anything rational in your promotion of Google.
Are you paranoid?
You never got junked about Apple, nor GS, nor Greece ... except by a small minority. Most ZHers (including myself) admired you.
Now, however, you are a front man for Google and either emotionally or money-driven to sell Google.
Which is it for you Reggie with Google? Heart, emotion, brain, or simply getting paid, if not laid?
I like Reggie. I think his exposure of the Irish banking corruption is great. But this shows that people will put aside the beliefs and morals for money. Money corrupts absolutely.
I guess if you do it for a living that makes you a whore.
reggie is so in love - with aunti google. he will spin anything that they invent as the new mega block buster. even if it is total crap such as google glass.
the total self-imposed surveillance. i could imagine the nsa could even sponsor one device for each and every citizen - along with unlimited broadband to transfer it all to the government's super-sized servers to archive and index it. what a wonderful world, indeed...
i wouldn't wear this stuff even if it was presented to me. google can shove this crap right there where the sun doesn't shine. it'a a game changer, yes - it's finally game over then for your and privacy. Poor snowden - gave up everything and reggie cheerleads the very surveillance tools that he exposed. WTF, reggie...
btw: your short pennsylvania RE position was a great call so far, eh - 30 % loss and counting... (and it was already -50% loss a couple days ago...
Agent Reggie's first love was himself.
Reggie, I feel compelled to remind you, "the jerk" lost his shirt on the optigrab.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Imagine Sergei and Larry writing 300 million checks for $1.39 to every american.
I'm still waiting for the video of Bernanke cat juggling.
Pay to the order of "Ironballs Mcginty" one dollar AND NINE CENTS!!
"advertising"
Google will sell "advertising" to the highest bidder..
Funny how evil is operating under the cover of another evil.
Current regime: See something, say something.
Google Glass regime: See something; so do we.
Reggie, why don't you pack up your stuff and head on down the trail. We ain't buyin' none of it.
Google Glass subsection 1. - If you are at a protest, we will send it to the NSA while blocking it from going to your site "to protect the public" and police agitators.
FU NSA
I have a simple suggestion,
instead of wearing camera attached to glasses You should be wearing it as a cyborg:
on Your Willy; then U could do some documentary films about Vaginas' fauna and flora.
What do You think Reggie?
"...thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept your head you could still outwit them. With all their cleverness they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking. . . . Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings; for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.”
GO 1984
Someone walks into my business with those fucking things on I'm throwing them out. Seriously Reggie? Aren't states already banning them?
Glassholes
cash that check quick reggie :D
in all seriousness though as an open NSA front (and a primary one at that) for implementation of technology developed by tax dollars, google is going to continue to reign supreme and will be used to shovel borg beehive insertion vectors down our throats.
the baseline analysis here is not flawed - we just all object to our boy reggie riding google's dick like this (no offense chief!)
"will be used to shovel borg beehive insertion vectors down our throats."
If it is the government (especially the U.S. government) driving the (forced) adoption of such technology, then yes, a scenario like the borg is almost certain....
However, as anyone with open eyes can see, most humans around the world have willfully adopted modern communication technologies on their own, because they want to connect, because humans are social beings. The connection gets deeper every year at an increasing pace. If the trajectory continues, we are certainly looking at more of a mass world mind or "consciousness" developing, sharing thoughts nearly instantly. Personally, I think more people are currently falling prey to connection-addiction than using technology in a productive way and not very conscious of how they are changing their minds (think facebook & I-phones), however, the trend is there. You can rebel, but it is unlikely to change much. I accept the change and am trying to make it a positive future instead of a U.S.-sponsored borg future.
Which brings me to Reggie. Yes, Google has bent over to NSA demands. Yes, Glass has the potential to be used for destructive purposes. You might not like it. I don't like the downsides, but I am not shooting the messenger (Reggie). If augmented reality is going to take off as a business and investment, then Google Glass could be the leader. And....it is Reggie's business to make money.
Thanks for beating me to this point. I deliver the message and people
don't like the message, alas, that doesn't change the message does it?
In addition, the message is not even understood enough to ascertain
whether it is liked or disliked.
You don't like living in a
surveillance state? The stay off the Internet grid. Don't use electronic
currency. Don't use cell phones, email, surf to websites (like
Zerohedge), accept bank transactions that aren't physical.
Don't
walk down a major urban or suburban street (those black semi-spheres on
the phone poles and power line structures are cameras, you know). Don't
even walk by ATM machines, stay out of malls, department stores, liquor
stores or anywhere else with private video surveillance. While you're at
it, watch what you say to your neighbors, associates, "friends" and
family. I can go on for a while with this.
Now, are you ready to
be a little more realistic? Google's a data company and by default
probably shouldn't be trusted. Then again, exactly what company can be
trusted? They're companies, not people. Hell, you can't even trust most
people these days. What you can do is exploit the tools that Google
gives you. Google went open sourced in order to cut Apple margins. Thus
you can take complete control of any Android based device and install a
clean room Rom AND Kernel if you so desire. You're not even forced to
use the Google libraries and apps. Even if you do you scan the rest for
spyware, which I've found in the wild regularly (thanks to smart hacker
types, I'm not taking credit for the discoveries, big up to XDA, et.
al.) This is the reason why the low level spyware used by carriers is
disabled by default in all custom roms. Oh, most don't know that
Verizon, Sprint and AT&T retained the ability to remotely transmit
and store your keystrokes, locations, apps and text messages.
Google
is the only major OS vendor to allow this on a wide variety of
hardware, which makes it infinitely more safe than iPhones, iPads,
Blackberries or MSFT devices. Remember when RIMM was forced to cave by
the mid-east governments? Google is better not because its a good moral
company, but because its business model calls for open source OS.
Never
in the history of mankind has the ability to conduct
countersurveillance as well as surveillance on the government and other
groups been as within the common man's grasp as it is now. The only
problem is the common man thinks as a commoner, and doesn't necessarily
grasp the world at this level.
Facial recognition combined with a
list of leaked operative photos (ala Snowden-Wikileaks) bounced off of
public search engines though a VPN (freely available as a quick download
and service) means you can walk down the street and recognize everyone
who's trying to spy on you.
The more things change, the more things remain the same. It's about the wolf and the sheeple. Which camp is yours?
Reggie
While I believe what you’re saying to be true, the challenge is that the common man does not wish to spend the time necessary to learn how to avoid being spied on. With the heroics of Snowden, it has become impossible to ignore the fact that no place is free from surveillance.
A “close relative” of mine works for a telecommunications company and spends a fair amount of his free time hacking various cell phone models and testing different operating systems on them. For him it is a hobby to explore ways to make it less accessible to prying eyes. For me, I just want to buy the turnkey privacy package for $Free.99 and not give it a second thought. Alas, it is he who is knowledgeable and thus better protected.
‘Twould be a nice balance to see support for any tech companies dedicated to keeping the Googles of the world in check; sorta the yin and yang of it all, you understand…
You are trying to talk sense to a grown man posing with a group of teenage girls in an ad (because that's what this is, an advertisement) designed to attract you to the notion of how cool it is to have no privacy at all. Think about it. You might as well try to teach your dog astrophysics...you'd have a better chance of success.
Wow...it just occurred to me: Google just managed to sneak a free ad onto ZH...and Reggie was the vessel. (I think somebody owes ZH a few ad dollars)
Thus it is the common man that supplies the data to keep these companies rolling. I don't favor any company, Google or otherwise, but I feel all of these detractors are ignorant in missing the point. Google is not the enemy or the friend. It's a company that manages and stores data. The state plays its role as does the private corporations. Google is not to be trusted due to the extreme power that it wields, power that the common man has no idea of comprehending. Yet, in order to get that power Google had to embrace the very tools to help the "uncommon" man protect himself - open source software.
Your friend does very much what my son and I do, tinker with things. This gives us an understanding of how things work, and how they may be used for us or against us. The dilemma is just as you quipped, you get what you pay for, and often rarely even get that much, Opt for the free.99 cent turnkey privacy package and expect to get your keys turned in 99 seconds.
There is no free lunch and the only way to protect yourself is with knowledge. The common man would have more time to understand the ins and outs of digital privacy if he/she consummed a little less American Idol or other said (un)reality TV shows and actually understood what it was they were talking over, typing over, buying through.
How do you think the big brand name i-banks make excess profits. Could Goldman Sachs exist with its massive payout structure if all of its clients were truly educated?
The ignorance in some of these comments (not your latest one, though) truly sickens me.
/Rant off
We love you Reggie...but we want to pull a Google glass off some dweeb and step on it...ya know, just because.
Reggie when are you going to tinker with these insurance companies and figure out which one(s) is going to go balls up soon?
But, if you don't like cauliflower, you're still not going to like cauliflower.
built one of these myself in 2006...was thinking at the time celebs might use it to ward off photogs.
Privacy visor glasses jam facial recognition systems to protect your privacy #DigInfohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRj8whKmN1M&feature=player_embedded
You do don't you.
You rock, WB7 ...
ogre horror picture show .... ( From Dulles to Betrayus ) ....
Remember the Steve Martin movie "The Jerk"? that's the first thing that came to mind when I first saw these idiotic things.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YxEQqLx9BJw/UPXue15soBI/AAAAAAAAFYA/uZPhupiSQe...
HAHA.....
My first thought was those cheesy "x-ray glasses" you could find in the backs of magazines as a kid.
a thirst for truth is all we need
to banish lies built out of greed
a world order of our own
we build in throwing them all down-
the enemy we've ceased to heed.
destroy the image and you Will break the enemy.
@ williambanzai7:
THAT is freakin' awesome!
Ha ! Brilliant from WB 7 ...
While Reggie Middleton has hit new lows whoring for the CIA murderers at Google Inc
Reggie obviously has been Mind Controlled by the Dark Force. He must of been DARPA'd and/or MKULTRA'd