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1. Jameela Jamil
One of the great things about VJ/model Jameela Jamil is that she doesn't need designer pieces to create noteworthy ensembles. Case in point: the outfit she put together for a party hosted by the UK's MTV Push and CK One in London earlier this month. The British beauty kept all eyes on her by simply styling a gray Urban Outfitters skirt with a bright red halter top and sweater from H&M and ALDO for Julian Louie's Deanna Wedges ($125, available at select ALDO stores). The vibrant red hues--we like that she also went for a coral lipstick--are perfect for spring, while her unexpected footwear gives the look some visual intrigue. And while you might not be able to purchase all of her exact pieces, don't stress because we've rounded up some excellent alternative apparel! Try ASOS' Drape Twisted One Shoulder ($45) or Nasty Gal's Capri Asymmetric Tank ($30) with Staring at Stars' Pleated Skirt ($49) in Indigo. As for Jamil's wild wedges, if you can't snag her exact pair, we believe ALDO's Forwood Wedges ($90) and Naughty Monkey's Printed Wedges ($75) are both worthy options that mimic her standout footwear perfectly.
2. Rachel Bilson
We were as pleased as can be to see so many inquires regarding Rachel Bilson's latest ensemble; after all, it's always a good idea to look to the tastemaker for smart styling ideas. Spotted leaving a meeting in New York last week, Bilson expertly transitioned her delicate Camilla and Marc Equinox Frock Dress ($690) with The Kooples' Military Coat ($363). Though the utilitarian jacket is an unexpected outerwear choice for the otherwise summery look, it's the perfect contrasting piece with the ensemble's decidedly sweet and feminine vibe. To complete her prime between-seasons outfit, Bilson accessorized with Stella McCartney's Canvas Wooden Espadrilles ($445) and an Isabel Marant fringe bag. If you're flipping for Bilson's on-the-go ensemble, simply pick up Forever 21's Ruffled Butterfly Dress ($25) and style it with Michael Stars' Linen Military Jacket ($178) and Diane Von Furstenberg's Pandora Wedge Espadrilles ($255); the resulting look is sure to be a smash!
3. Georgia Jagger
Georgia Jagger can do no wrong in our eyes, especially when it comes to her cool-girl sensibilities. The model/designer caught your attention when she was leaving The Box nightclub in London earlier this month, when she wore a T by Alexander Wang Giselle Stripe Spaghetti Dress ($395, available at select Barneys New York stores) and black Acne ankle boots. The combination of these wardrobe basics resulted in an understated, '90s grunge ensemble--just the kind of look we've come to expect from this fashion plate! To create a likeminded outfit, simply pick up American Apparel's Striped Cotton Spandex Jersey Scoop Back Tank Dress ($40) or French Connection's Stripe Tank Dress ($57) and pair it with ASOS' Ames Suede Ankle Boots ($126).
4. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has turned up in a number of inspiring ensembles lately, but the clear reader favorite is today's polished neutral mix. The Victoria's Secret model/actress was snapped leaving lunch in Los Angeles earlier this month wearing a vintage black jacket and white blouse with a pair of Burberry Prorsum cropped pants and Isabel Marant's Gava Cotton-Raffia and Leather Pumps ($820). She accessorized her effortlessly chic ensemble with a truly desirable Rag & Bone floppy hat and Salvatore Ferragamo Peach Suede Envelope Handbag ($1190, 800.628.8916). To recreate Huntington-Whiteley's savvy MOD mix, we recommend starting with the basics, like BDG's Cigarette Mid-Rise Jeans ($54), Frank & Eileen's White Linen Shirley Shirt ($198), and J. Crew's Featherweight Cotton Cardigan ($62) in Black. Once you have those sorted, it's time for the fun part: accessorizing! You'll definitely want to pick up Express' Panama Hat ($35), which we promise will come in handy all season long, as well as Lauren Merkin's Riley Crocodile Clutch ($225). And though her Isabel Marant pumps are a smart choice, we're also fans of United Nude's Block Ankle Pumps ($300).
5. Jennifer Hudson
Your Who What Wear editors can't say enough good things about Jennifer Hudson. The songstress gives us the chills--the good kind, of course--every time she belts out one of her hits and we're still in awe of her incredible transformation. But lately, she's been on your radar for a completely different reason: her savvy fashion sense! Hudson has a penchant for picking polished dresses that flatter her figure, so we're not surprised to see so many of you raving about the striped Issa dress--from the F/W 11 collection--she wore out in London last week. She opted for a clean and minimal look, styling the vibrant and flirty frock with Nicholas Kirkwood's Calf/Lace Peep Toe Booties ($995, available at select Barneys New York stores) and M.C.L. by Matthew Campbell Laurenza bracelets. If you're a fan of her ensemble, please don't miss ASOS' Striped Knitted Dress ($23), Joie's Shelton Striped Tie-Dye Dress ($225), or Milly's Lausane Stripe Dress ($275), all of which offer a wonderful pop of color that will certainly turn heads this season!--Jessica Baker
Photo of Jameela Jamil, courtesy of Getty; Photos of Rachel Bilson, Georgia Jagger, and Jennifer Hudson, courtesy of Splash; Photo of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, courtesy of INF.

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Shares of Procter & Gamble Co., Oshkosh Corp. and Halliburton Co. all traded solidly higher in the early going Friday on Wall Street, on the heels of their respective quarterly financial results.
Procter & Gamble PG, -0.30% came in for scrutiny as the Dow Jones Industrial Average component reported second-quarter results at the high end of management's expectations and raised its fiscal-2013 outlook for both sales and earnings.
For the second quarter ended Dec. 31, the company checked in with net earnings of $4.06 billion, or $1.39 a share, up from $1.69 billion, or 57 cents, earned in the comparable period during fiscal 2012.
Backing out one-time items, P&G's "core" earnings amounted to $1.22 a share, up 12% from $1.09 a share in the year-earlier quarter. Analysts, on average, had ben looking for earnings of $1.11 a share, according to a survey by FactSet.
Second-quarter sales rose 2%, reaching $22.18 billion from $21.74 billion, as currency translations subtracted a percentage point from the growth rate.
P&G also revised higher its adjusted profit forecast for all of fiscal 2013, to a range of $3.97 to $4.07 share, up from $3.80 to $4 a share previously; the consensus is $3.97 a share. Read more on Procter & Gamble.
The Cincinnati-based company said it now expects to buy back $5 billion to $6 billion in stock, up from an earlier range of $4 billion to $6 billion.
Oshkosh OSK, -1.12% had earnings of $46.2 million, or 51 cents a share, up from $38.8 million, or 42 cents, earned in the comparable period during fiscal 2012.
Excluding one-time items, Oshkosh's results showed earnings from continuing operations would have been 60 cents a share, while quarterly sales fell to $1.76 billion from $1.88 billion a year earlier. Both profit and sales came in well ahead of analysts' consensus forecasts for Wisconsin-based vehicle manufacturer. Read more on Oshkosh.
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Sean Avery even impressed himself.
The controversial winger, who has been subdued for much of the season between questionable officiating and Rangers management, was back to his old antics against the team that quit on him, the Dallas Stars.
Not one player was immune to the Avery-syndrome last night, including top Stars Brad Richards, Marty Turco, and Brendan Morrow. Between the chirping and physical play, Avery rattled the opposition, which gave way to a rare five-goal effort at MSG.
In the Rangers' 5 - 2 victory, aside from the final empty net tally by Ryan Callahan, Avery factored in each score, recording one goal and three assists.
Avery tied the game on the power play after a pretty rush by defenseman Matt Gilroy. After Michal Rozsival passed the puck out of the zone, Gilroy recovered and began the rush in his own end. Drawing the penalty killers to the middle of the ice, Gilroy slipped a pass barely onside along the blueline to Avery.
Avery took a shortside slap shot from near the faceoff circle that went through a challenging Turco.
Then towards the end of the period, Avery would assist top-line players Marian Gaborik and Erik Christensen. Christensen forced a turnover in the neutral zone and fed Avery streaking up the odd-wing.
Gaborik snuck into the slot and Avery fed the puck toward the crease where Gaborik was able to knock in a dirty goal.
The period ended 2 - 1 Rangers.
But Avery's play wasn't without a bit of controversy.
As the second period began, the Stars tied the game on a goal by Jere Lehtinen. But the tie would only last six or so minutes as Avery would again be a factor on the offense.
Wade Redden fed a streaking Avery who found Ales Kotalik cross-ice. Kotalik came just inside the blueline and, like the Avery goal, fired a hard low slapshot that Turco wasn't able to handle.
Following the goal, Avery gave the rattled Stars' goalie a little in his ear, much to the dismay of the officiating staff. Avery was assessed a ten-minute misconduct which earned him a standing ovation.
Once the Rangers took the lead, they never looked back, coming out hard to start the third period and much to the credit of Avery.
Despite a frivolous cross-checking penalty in his first shift following the misconduct, Avery and the Rangers continued to grind away at the reeling Dallas squad and at the 8:57 mark, he would tally one of his prettiest NHL points.
Rozsival and Drury began the play in the Rangers zone and broke out near the benches. Drury chipped the puck to Avery on the blueline who broke wide through the neutral zone, attracting the attention of three defending Stars.
Avery gained the zone and pulled up tight one-on-one with Matt Niskanen near the faceoff circle. In a swift spin-o-rama move, Avery shook Niskanen and headed toward the slot. As Drury barreled toward the crease, Avery fed a tape-to-tape pass for the tip-in goal.
And in typical Avery-fashion, as he began to celebrate he was knocked down by a dejected Jamie Benn.
More importantly, the Rangers continue to get contributions from players not named Gaborik and it has had a direct impact with a team record of 7 - 1 - 2 in their last ten games.
The Rangers will look for three straight as they travel to Atlanta for an evening matchup against the Thrashers.
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The meaning of open
Last week I sent an email to Googlers about the meaning of "open" as it relates to the Internet, Google, and our users. In the spirit of openness, I thought it would be appropriate to share these thoughts with those outside of Google as well.
At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without risk. After all, in our industry there is no clear definition of what open really means. It is a Rashomon-like term: highly subjective and vitally important.
The topic of open seems to be coming up a lot lately at Google. I've been in meetings where we're discussing a product and someone says something to the effect that we should be more open. Then a debate ensues which reveals that even though most everyone in the room believes in open we don't necessarily agree on what it means in practice.
This is happening often enough for me to conclude that we need to lay out our definition of open in clear terms that we can all understand and support. What follows is that definition based on my experiences at Google and the input of several colleagues. We run the company and make our product decisions based on these principles, so I encourage you to carefully read, review, and debate them. Then own them and try to incorporate them into your work. This is a complex subject and if there is debate (and I'm sure there will be) it should be in the open! Please feel free to comment.
There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow the Internet, and open standards, meaning we adhere to accepted standards and, if none exist, work to create standards that improve the entire Internet (and not just benefit Google). Open information means that when we have information about users we use it to provide something that is valuable to them, we are transparent about what information we have about them, and we give them ultimate control over their information. These are the things we should be doing. In many cases we aren't there, but I hope that with this note we can start working to close the gap between reality and aspiration.
If we can embody a consistent commitment to open — which I believe we can — then we have a big opportunity to lead by example and encourage other companies and industries to adopt the same commitment. If they do, the world will be a better place.
Open systems win
To understand our position in more detail, it helps to start with the assertion that open systems win. This is counter-intuitive to the traditionally trained MBA who is taught to generate a sustainable competitive advantage by creating a closed system, making it popular, then milking it through the product life cycle. The conventional wisdom goes that companies should lock in customers to lock out competitors. There are different tactical approaches — razor companies make the razor cheap and the blades expensive, while the old IBM made the mainframes expensive and the software ... expensive too. Either way, a well-managed closed system can deliver plenty of profits. They can also deliver well-designed products in the short run — the iPod and iPhone being the obvious examples — but eventually innovation in a closed system tends towards being incremental at best (is a four blade razor really that much better than a three blade one?) because the whole point is to preserve the status quo. Complacency is the hallmark of any closed system. If you don't have to work that hard to keep your customers, you won't.
Open systems are just the opposite. They are competitive and far more dynamic. In an open system, a competitive advantage doesn't derive from locking in customers, but rather from understanding the fast-moving system better than anyone else and using that knowledge to generate better, more innovative products. The successful company in an open system is both a fast innovator and a thought leader; the brand value of thought leadership attracts customers and then fast innovation keeps them. This isn't easy — far from it — but fast companies have nothing to fear, and when they are successful they can generate great shareholder value.
Open systems have the potential to spawn industries. They harness the intellect of the general population and spur businesses to compete, innovate, and win based on the merits of their products and not just the brilliance of their business tactics. The race to map the human genome is one example.
In the book Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams explain how in the mid-1990s private firms were discovering and patenting large amounts of DNA sequence data and then assuming control over who could access that information and at what price. Having so much of the genome under private ownership raised costs and made drug discovery far less efficient. Then, in 1995, Merck Pharmaceuticals and the Gene Sequencing Center at Washington University changed the game by creating a new, open initiative called the Merck Gene Index. Within three years they had published over 800,000 gene sequences into the public domain, and soon other collaborative projects followed suit. This in an industry where early stage R&D was traditionally pursued individually in closed labs, so Merck's open approach not only changed the culture of the entire field but also accelerated the pace of biomedical research and drug development. It gave researchers everywhere unrestricted access to an open resource of genetic information.
Another way to look at the difference between open and closed systems is that open systems allow innovation at all levels — from the operating system to the application layer — not just at the top. This means that one company doesn't have to depend on another's benevolence to ship a product. If the GNU C compiler that I'm using has a bug, I can fix it since the compiler is open source. I don't have to file a bug report and hope for a timely response.
So if you are trying to grow an entire industry as broadly as possible, open systems trump closed. And that is exactly what we are trying to do with the Internet. Our commitment to open systems is not altruistic. Rather it's good business, since an open Internet creates a steady stream of innovations that attracts users and usage and grows the entire industry. Hal Varian has an equation in his book Information Rules that applies here:
All other things being equal, a 10 percent increase in share or a 10 percent increase in industry value should lead to the same outcome. But in our industry a 10 percent increase in industry value will yield a much bigger reward because it will stimulate economies of scale across the entire industry, increasing productivity and reducing costs for all competitors. As long as we contribute a steady stream of great products we will prosper along with the entire ecosystem. We may get a smaller piece, but it will come from a bigger pie.
In other words, Google's future depends on the Internet staying an open system, and our advocacy of open will grow the web for everyone - including Google.
Open Technology
The definition of open starts with the technologies upon which the Internet was founded: open standards and open source software.
Open Standards
Networks have always depended on standards to flourish. When railroad tracks were first being laid across the U.S. in the early 19th century, there were seven different standards for track width. The network didn't flourish and expand west until the different railway companies agreed upon a standard width of 4' 8.5". (In this case the standards war was an actual war: Southern railroads were forced to convert over 11,000 miles of track to the new standard after the Confederacy lost to the Union in the Civil War.)
So there was some precedent in 1974 when Vint Cerf and his colleagues proposed using an open standard (which became TCP/IP) to connect the several computer networks that had emerged around the U.S. They didn't know exactly how many networks were out there so the "Internet" — a term Vint coined — had to be open. Any network could connect using TCP/IP, and now, as a result of that decision, there are about 681 million hosts on the Internet.
Today, we base our developer products on open standards because interoperability is a critical element of user choice. What does this mean for Google Product Managers and Engineers? Simple: whenever possible, use existing open standards. If you are venturing into an area where open standards don't exist, create them. If existing standards aren't as good as they should be, work to improve them and make those improvements as simple and well documented as you can. Our top priorities should always be users and the industry at large and not just the good of Google, and you should work with standards committees to make our changes part of the accepted specification.
We have a good history of doing this. In the formative years of the Google Data Protocol (our standard API protocol, which is based on XML/Atom), we worked as part of the IETF Atom Protocol Working Group to shape the Atom specification. There's also our recent work with the W3C to create a standard geolocation API that will make it easy for developers to build browser-based, location-sensitive applications. This standard helps everyone, not just us, and will lead to users having access to many more compelling apps from thousands of developers.
Open Source
Most of those apps will be built on open source software, a phenomenon responsible for the web's explosive growth in the past 15 years. There is a historic precedent here: while the term "open source" was coined in the late 1990s, the concept of sharing valuable information to catalyze an industry existed long before the Internet. In the early 1900s, the U.S. automobile industry instituted a cross-licensing agreement whereby patents were shared openly and freely amongst manufacturers. Prior to this agreement, the owners of the patent for the two-cycle gasoline engine had effectively bottled up the industry.
Today's open source goes far beyond the "patent pooling" of the early auto manufacturers, and has led to the development of the sophisticated software components — Linux, Apache, SSH, and others — upon which Google is built. In fact, we use tens of millions of lines of open source code to run our products. We also give back: we are the largest open source contributor in the world, contributing over 800 projects that total over 20 million lines of code to open source, with four projects (Chrome, Android, Chrome OS, and Google Web Toolkit) of over a million lines of code each. We have teams that work to support Mozilla and Apache, and an open source project hosting service (code.google.com/hosting) that hosts over 250,000 projects. These activities not only ensure that others can help us build the best products, they also mean that others can use our software as a base for their own products if we fail to innovate adequately.
When we open source our code we use standard, open Apache 2.0 licensing, which means we don't control the code. Others can take our open source code, modify it, close it up and ship it as their own. Android is a classic example of this, as several OEMs have already taken the code and done great things with it. There are risks to this approach, however, as the software can fragment into different branches which don't work well together (remember how Unix for workstations devolved into various flavors — Apollo, Sun, HP, etc.). This is something we are working hard to avoid with Android.
While we are committed to opening the code for our developer tools, not all Google products are open source. Our goal is to keep the Internet open, which promotes choice and competition and keeps users and developers from getting locked in. In many cases, most notably our search and ads products, opening up the code would not contribute to these goals and would actually hurt users. The search and advertising markets are already highly competitive with very low switching costs, so users and advertisers already have plenty of choice and are not locked in. Not to mention the fact that opening up these systems would allow people to "game" our algorithms to manipulate search and ads quality rankings, reducing our quality for everyone.
So as you are building your product or adding new features, stop and ask yourself: Would open sourcing this code promote the open Internet? Would it spur greater user, advertiser, and partner choice? Would it lead to greater competition and innovation? If so, then you should make it open source. And when you do, do it right; don't just push it over the wall into the public realm and forget about it. Make sure you have the resources to pay attention to the code and foster developer engagement. Google Web Toolkit, where we have developed in the open and used a public bug tracker and source control system, is a good example of this.
Open Information
The foundation of open standards and open source has led to a web where massive amounts of personal information — photos, contacts, updates — are regularly uploaded. The scale of information being shared, and the fact that it can be saved forever, creates a question that was hardly a consideration a few years ago: How do we treat this information?
Historically, new information technologies have often enabled new forms of commerce. For example, when traders in the Mediterranean region circa 3000 BC invented seals (called bullae) to ensure that their shipments reached their destinations tamper-free, they transformed commerce from local to long distance. Similar transformations were spurred by the advent of the written word, and more recently, computers. At every step of the way, the transaction, a consensual agreement where each party gets something of value, was powered by a new type of information that allowed a contract to be enforced.
On the web, the new form of commerce is the exchange of personal information for something of value. This is a transaction that millions of us participate in every day, and it has potentially great benefits. An auto insurer could monitor a customer's driving habits in real-time and give a discount for good driving — or charge a premium for speeding — powered by information (GPS tracking) that wasn't available only a few years ago. This is a fairly simple transaction, but we will encounter far more sensitive scenarios.
Let's say your child has an allergy to certain medicines. Would you allow her medical data to be accessible by a smart wireless syringe which could prevent an EMT or nurse from accidentally giving her that medicine? I would, but you might decide the metal bracelet around her wrist is sufficient. And that's the point — people can and will reach different decisions, and when it comes to their personal information we need to treat all of those decisions with equal respect.
So while having more personal information online can be quite beneficial to everyone, its uses should be guided by principles that are responsible, scalable, and flexible enough to grow and change with our industry. And unlike open technology, where our objective is to grow the Internet ecosystem, our approach to open information is to build trust with the individuals who engage within that ecosystem (users, partners, and customers). Trust is the most important currency online, so to build it we adhere to three principles of open information: value, transparency, and control.
First and foremost, we need to make products that are valuable to users. In many cases, we can make our products even better if we know more information about the user, but privacy concerns can arise if people don't understand what value they are getting in return for their information. Explain that value to them, however, and they will often agree to the transaction. For example, millions of people let credit card companies retain information on the purchases they make with their card in exchange for the convenience of not carrying around cash.
We did this well when we launched Interest-Based Advertising in March. IBA makes ads more relevant and more useful. That is the extra value we create based on the information we gather. It also includes a user preferences manager that clearly explains what users are getting in exchange for their information and lets them opt out or adjust their settings. The vast majority of people who visit the preferences manager choose to adjust their settings rather than opt out because they realize the value of receiving ads customized to their interests.
This should be our default approach: tell people, in obvious, plain language, what we know about them and why it's valuable to them that we know it. Think that your product's value is so obvious that it doesn't need explaining? There's a good chance you're wrong.
Next, we need to make it easy for users to find out what information we gather and store about them across all of our products. We recently took a big step in this direction with the launch of the Google Dashboard, which is a single place where users can see what personal data is held by each Google product (covering more than 20 products including Gmail, YouTube, and Search) and control their personal settings. We are, to the best of our knowledge, the first Internet company to offer a service like this and we hope it will become the standard. Another good example is our Privacy Policy, which is written for humans and not just lawyers.
We can go even farther than this though. If you manage a consumer product where you collect information from your users, your product should be part of the Dashboard. If you're already there, you're not done. With every new feature or version, ask yourself if you have any additional information (maybe even information that is publicly available about users on other sites) that you can add to the Dashboard.
Think about how you can increase transparency within your product as well. When you download an Android app, for example, the device tells you what information the app will be able to access about you and your phone, and then you get to decide whether or not to proceed. You don't have to dig deep to figure out what information you are divulging - it tells you up front and lets you decide what to do. Is your product like that? How can you increase users' engagement with your product through increasing transparency?
Finally, we must always give control to the user. If we have information about a user, as with IBA, it should be easy for the user to delete that information and opt-out. If they use our products and store content with us, it's their content, not ours. They should be able to export it or delete it at any time, at no cost, and as easily as possible. Gmail is a great example of this since we offer free forwarding to any address. The ability to switch is critical, so instead of building walls around your product, build bridges. Give users real options.
If there are existing standards for handling user data, then we should adhere to them. If a standard doesn't exist, we should work to create an open one that benefits the entire web, even if a closed standard appears to be better for us (remember — it's not!). In the meantime we need to do whatever we can to make leaving Google as easy as possible. Google is not the Hotel California — you can check out any time you like and you CAN, in fact, leave!
As Eric said in his 2009 strategy memo, "we don't trap users, we make it easy for them to move to our competitors." This policy is sort of like the emergency exits on an airplane — an analogy that our pilot CEO would appreciate. You hope to never use them, but you're glad they're there and would be furious if they weren't.
That's why we have a team — the Data Liberation Front (dataliberation.org) — whose job it is to make "checking out" easy. Recent examples of their work include Blogger (people who choose to leave Blogger for another service can easily take their content with them) and Docs (users can now collect all their documents, presos, and spreadsheets in a zip file and download it). Build your products so that the Data Liberation team can work their magic. One way you can do this is by having a good public API that exposes all your users' data. Don't wait for v2 or v3, discuss this early in your product planning meetings and make it a feature of your product from the start.
When reporters at the Guardian, a leading UK newspaper, reviewed the work of the Data Liberation team they proclaimed it to be "counter-intuitive" for those "accustomed to the lock-in mentality of previous commercial battles." They are right, it is counterintuitive to people who are stuck in the old MBA way of thinking, but if we do our jobs then soon it won't be. Our goal is to make open the default. People will gravitate towards it, then they will expect and demand it and be furious when they don't get it. When open is intuitive, then we have succeeded.
When bigger is better
Closed systems are well-defined and profitable, but only for those who control them. Open systems are chaotic and profitable, but only for those who understand them well and move faster than everyone else. Closed systems grow quickly while open systems evolve more slowly, so placing your bets on open requires the optimism, will, and means to think long term. Fortunately, at Google we have all three of these.
Because of our reach, technical know-how, and lust for big projects, we can take on big challenges that require large investments and lack an obvious, near-term pay-off. We can photograph the world's streets so that you can explore the neighborhood around an apartment you are considering renting from a thousand miles away. We can scan millions of books and make them widely accessible (while respecting the rights of publishers and authors). We can create an email system that gives away a gigabyte of storage (now over 7 gigs) at a time when all other services allow only a small fraction of that amount. We can instantly translate web pages from any of 51 languages. We can process search data to help public health agencies detect flu outbreaks much earlier. We can build a faster browser (Chrome), a better mobile operating system (Android), and an entirely new communications platform (Wave), and then open them up for the world to build upon, customize, and improve.
We can do these things because they are information problems and we have the computer scientists, technology, and computational power to solve them. When we do, we make numerous platforms - video, maps, mobile, PCs, voice, enterprise - better, more competitive, and more innovative. We are often attacked for being too big, but sometimes being bigger allows us to take on the impossible.
All of this is useless, however, if we fail when it comes to being open. So we need to constantly push ourselves. Are we contributing to open standards that better the industry? What's stopping us from open sourcing our code? Are we giving our users value, transparency, and control? Open up as much as you can as often as you can, and if anyone questions whether this is a good approach, explain to them why it's not just a good approach, but the best approach. It is an approach that will transform business and commerce in this still young century, and when we are successful we will effectively re-write the MBA curriculum for the next several decades!
An open Internet transforms lives globally. It has the potential to deliver the world's information to the palm of every person and to give everyone the power of freedom of expression. These predictions were in an email I sent you earlier this year (later posted as a blog post) that described my vision for the future of the Internet. But now I'm talking about action, not vision. There are forces aligned against the open Internet — governments who control access, companies who fight in their own self-interests to preserve the status quo. They are powerful, and if they succeed we will find ourselves inhabiting an Internet of fragmentation, stagnation, higher prices, and less competition.
Our skills and our culture give us the opportunity and responsibility to prevent this from happening. We believe in the power of technology to deliver information. We believe in the power of information to do good. We believe that open is the only way for this to have the broadest impact for the most people. We are technology optimists who trust that the chaos of open benefits everyone. We will fight to promote it every chance we get.
Open will win. It will win on the Internet and will then cascade across many walks of life: The future of government is transparency. The future of commerce is information symmetry. The future of culture is freedom. The future of science and medicine is collaboration. The future of entertainment is participation. Each of these futures depends on an open Internet.
As Google product managers, you are building something that will outlast all of us, and none of us can imagine all the ways Google will grow and touch people's lives. In that way, we are like our colleague Vint Cerf , who didn't know exactly how many networks would want to be part of this "Internet" so he set the default to open. Vint certainly got it right. I believe we will too.
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Google incorporated in a private corporation engaged in free enterprise.ReplyDelete
Google Inc. is Not a person can disappear in 5-10 years.
Witness Netscape, Sun Micro, Peoplesoft and DEC.
Gongle inc. competes in the free market, marketplace like all other companies.
Liberty and Freedom in a Free world will win in the end.
A company that has become big needs a new ethos. Google as a company will stick around for a long, long time, but it is not at all a given that Google will continue to be on the bleeding edge. Will Google Wave end up being the last bleeding edge product Google gave to the world?ReplyDelete
Staying open is your best bet to sta on the cutting edge for as long as possible.
I believe this is the way forward to making IT more accessible to everyone for nothing. IT is nolonger a luxury but a necessity for our well being. Thank you Google.. :)ReplyDelete
Call us when you open your search ranking algorithm, or the design for your servers. Until then this cherry-picked openness sounds a little bit hypocritical.ReplyDelete
To quote the Register:
"The company claims to perform all kinds of magic to ensure that its data centers are the most energy-efficient computing houses around, saving Google millions of dollars per year on electricity. Yet the super-secretive ad broker continues to reveal precious little about these data center tweaks.
If Google is actually successful at lowering power consumption, then the secrecy makes sense. It sees the tweaks as a competitive edge over companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo!, which also consume immense volumes of gear and power.
At what point will Google decide that all service providers should have a chance to benefit from its knowledge for the betterment of mankind?"
Great post Jonathan.ReplyDelete
I liked the philosophy of openness. I have always wondered where does one draw the line between the openness in a corporate environment - and your post here made me realize that it is a fine balancing act - and it keeps changing with the conditions in the market.
Ultimately, there are things which can be opened and some which can't. Most companies just hoard everything. Its refreshing to see Google open up so many things.
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I tend to agree about Google's servers and their search algorithms being closed, it's not very nice.ReplyDelete
I think that's how they survive for now though, if they released those informations, Microsoft would trample them.
They'll probably release some of that information once they have more other competitive products or when it's getting less risky to release it in general.
In the end, I think those principle Google is trying to define are challenged by reality. The current reality is that law is not in favor of those principles so Google has to do compromises.
Google will not reveal its secret sauce for the same reason Coke will not, KFC will not. It makes market sense why they will not. I say keep up the good work Google.ReplyDelete
This post is a response to this Google open treatise by Scott Cleland, Chairman of Netcompetition.org.ReplyDelete
Google's Open Double Standard -- Fact-Checking Google's Treatise on "The meaning of open"
Google posted its treatise on "The meaning of open" designed to redefine the word "open" in Google's image. It is an important read because it is a bay window view into the altruistic way that Google yearns for the world to perceive it.
Like most all of Google's PR, however, Google's Treatise on "The meaning of open" may be "the truth" as Google sees it, but it is certainly not "the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
I. Google's Open Double Standard
Simply, Google is for "open" wherever it does not have a monopoly or dominant market position, however where it does, as in AdWords, AdSense and search advertising syndication, it is closed, to ensure that its dominance remains impregnable to competitors.
In the height of irony, Google has cleverly flipped a concept that was originally designed to be a sword of competition to a closed monopoly, and applied it as a political/PR shield to protect Google's closed monopoly from competition.
Google admits: "Open systems are chaotic and profitable, but only for those who understand them well and move faster than everyone else." [bold emphasis added]
Google de facto admits here that open systems are only profitable for the one that better understands and is faster than "everyone else" i.e the open-opoly winner of the open race.
Now light bulbs should be going on in readers heads why Google:
Has a master plan to "Make the Web faster;"
Serially releases betaware forcing open sourcers to orbit around Google's monopoly center of gravity; and
Serially releases more new products and services than anyone (that just happen to uniquely integrate with one another and depend on underlying data and private information that only Google has.)
See Precurorblog for the rest of this critique: http://www.precursorblog.com/content/googles-open-double-standard-fact-checking-googles-treatise-the-meaning-open
Google is the only company that gives me hope for a better future.ReplyDelete
In an age when corporate greed is normally allowed to make the company decisions, and most business goals are designed to screw the consumer as much as possible, Google manages to arguably produce more useful products for the public than any other company, give them all away for free to the people, be environmentally responsible in the process, and still make the huge profits necessary to insure they'll be able to keep doing it.
Intelligence, vision, and forward-thinking is something this country has undervalued and lacked in many industries and disciplines and powerful seats for far too long. The corporate engine of greed that has been allowed to drive things for so long is going to run out of gas, and I'm going to be thanking Google when I'm no longer a slave trapped on its train.
And to Lode and others that complain Google's servers and search algorithms or whatever arn't open; He clearly said, they arn't there yet. But there is some information publicly available about both if you look for it.
Free Free Free FreeReplyDelete
Open Open Open Open
Free and Open is good for world.
Used google daily for years and cost Not a single penny.
Google works free and will work in future.
Well i believe that Google has contributed to being Open, but as it means to do business it has to with hold some information.ReplyDelete
Its Search Algorithms if made public Google's gonna lose its monopoly if not all may be a large part of it.
Its server design and other secrets which seem elusive i agree should be made public but that would mean that Google's gonna have to part with something very close to it, and if google wants to have a strong stand in the market for coming years it has to conserve this information.
I have hosted my small site just for learning and fun on Google Sites, integrated it with Google Analytics and Used the Google Apps Standard Version to set up Email and other functions and all that for FREE. When i use these services i feel that google has done a terrific job here otherwise how can someone use all of these as a part of practical education. I have learnt a lot from google and will continue to do so but there is something we all know is happening and will happen in the future..
In some countries Google knows more about the people than its government and the network is spreading and if CHROME gets the success than i am sure that the next closest connection of humans after the PLACENTA would be GOOGLE.
"Simply, Google is for "open" wherever it does not have a monopoly or dominant market position, however where it does, as in AdWords, AdSense and search advertising syndication, it is closed"ReplyDelete
Make sense, but Gmail is still closed, why not open source the Gmail?
It seems to me that Google only wants everyone else to be open.ReplyDelete
They help software pirates post cracks for the software application my company creates. They scan books and put them online for free.
Type "Photoshop Crack" into Google and you will get hundreds of results. Surely they could easily block this obvious and illegal abuse of intellectual property.
So it's okay to give away my intellectual property, but page rank is secret.
I like Google, but this is hypocrisy of the highest order.
It is always this way. When something good is happening, there are always pessimists who look for something that is not there.ReplyDelete
Guys, tell Google how to better things, instead of saying this is not there, this is not free, and so on and on...
Appreciate Google for at least giving whatever they've given for free. They've done a really good job. Look at Microsoft / Yahoo! and then compare them with Google. I've been using Google since 10 years, and it has given me everything I need for free. It is a one stop shop.
Look at the positives, thank Google for whatever they have given us till now, and move on.
Ah, "The meaning of open". I must admit, i'm a little confused by the term, as you use it.ReplyDelete
Do you mean "open" as in the Android Market, where users can not download the client or can not access it if their Android phone or device doesn't come with it pre-installed - i assume that means the manufacturers paid Google for that right, ot that you mean to get money from them in the future?
Or do you mean "open" as in sending C&D letters to developers that make your products better and more useful?
Interesting comments. Apparently if you give a starving man a loaf of bread, he expects a feast.ReplyDelete
Google is doing more for openness than 99% of other companies. Yes, those who follow RMS's mantra definitely serve a purpose, and have a point. But until the rest of the giant software companies (M$?) catch on, shouldn't we congratulate Google for what it is doing, instead of just asking for more?
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Sherard Clinkscales recalls such an instance in 2000. As the Assistant Director of Scouting for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Clinkscales had an important voice regarding what the organization should do with the sixth overall pick. In the end Tampa wound up selecting Rocco Baldelli, but as Clinkscales recalled late last week, it took a while before everyone was in agreement regarding the Woonsocket native/Cumberland native .
Initially Baldelli was in the mix with righthanded pitchers Beau Hale and Matt Harrington and a future all-star second baseman named Chase Utley. Cases were made on the behalf of each draft prospect with Clinkscales saying, ŌĆ£[General manager] Chuck LaMar was kind of biased towards the big Texas righthander (Hale). The knock on Chase Utley was where he was going to play. He was a polished hitter coming out of college [UCLA], but was he going to play second base or shortstop? Harrington has unbelievable stuff at the time. He was 96-98 with the fastball, but he was a high school pitcher. Generally those types of pitchers have not fared well.
ŌĆ£Right before the draft we had a big discussion about Rocco,ŌĆØ added Clinkscales. ŌĆ£It got to the point that Chuck LaMar was saying, ŌĆśIs he Joe DiMaggio? If heŌĆÖs not he should be!ŌĆÖ After a lot of debate we were convinced Rocco was our guy, but there was a contingency that wanted either Utley, Harrington or Hale. Ultimately my vote was for Rocco.ŌĆØ
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Who is Lirael?
Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's Glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight — the ability to See into the present and possible futures — that is the very birthright of the Clayr.
Nonetheless, it is Lirael in whose hands the fate of the Old Kingdom lies. She must undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow of an ancient evil — one that opposes the Royal Family, blocks the Sight of the Clay; and threatens to break the very boundary between Life and Death itself. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog, to help her, Lirael must find the courage to seek her own hidden destiny.
In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Sabriel, Garth Nix draws readers deeper into the magical landscape of the Old Kingdom and weaves a spellbinding tale of discovery, destiny, and danger.
"Nix invests the Old Kingdom of his story with a Gothic ambiance that is at once dark, heroic, and resolute....Nix's imaginative magical descriptions, plot intrigues, and adventure sequences are outstanding..." Horn Book
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"The fast-paced plot is packed with harrowing encounters....A must-read for fans of the first book, Lirael will also fascinate readers new to the series." School Library Journal
"The story is long, but Nix provides enough twists to keep up the reader's sense of suspense and discovery. Nix also does a good job of getting inside the skin of a female teenager, which is welcome in this genre." KLIATT
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"The plot is filled with hair-raising escapes, desperate flights, relentless pursuits, and magical duels, described in sensual language that makes the scenes live." Janice M. Del Negro, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr, but nonetheless it is Lirael in whose hands the fate of the Old Kingdom lies. She must now undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow of an ancient evil and find the courage to seek her own hidden destiny.
When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies.
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Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside playing ?Hail the Conquering Hero Comes? or possibly ?Roll Out the Barrel?. Garth left Melbourne at an early age for Canberra (the federal capital) and stayed there till he was nineteen, when he left to drive around the UK in a beat-up Austin with a trunk full of books and a Silver-Reed typewriter.
Despite a wheel literally falling off the Austin, Garth survived to return to Australia and study at the University of Canberra. After finishing his degree in 1986 he worked in a bookshop, then as a book publicist, a publisher?s sales representative, and editor. Along the way he was also a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve, serving in an Assault Pioneer platoon for four years. Garth left publishing to work as a public relations and marketing consultant from 1994-1997, till he became a full-time writer in 1998. He did that for a year before becoming a part-time literary agent in 1999. In January 2002 Garth went back to writing full time again, despite his belief that full-time writing explains the strange behaviour of many authors.
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