Your Health Record, the CIA, Google and Sarah Palin

Imagine if your 'health record' is held by a private company which allegedly has links to the CIA.

Imagine if your health record is held by an internet company which allegedly allows certain types of pornography on its sites.

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Imagine if your health record is held by a company which allegedly discriminates against those who criticise Israel and the Pentagon.

In the UK, if there is a Conservative government led by David Cameron, health records could be transferred to Google.

Medical records via Google?

Steve Hilton is one of David Cameron’s closest advisers.

Hilton is married to Rachel Whetstone, Google's vicepresident of global communications and public affairs.

Cameron, who claims to be a Zionist, flew to San Francisco to address the Google Zeitgeist conference in 2007 at the company’s expense.

Five months ago, it was revealed that Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, was joining a UK Conservative business forum to advise on economic policy. (Medical records via Google?)

Google?

"Google has changed Google Image Search to make it just a bit faster and easier to find adult or pornographic content with the search engine." (Google Makes It Faster To Find Pornography)

(Google does not allow adverts on our blogs and it has been known to delete our videos.)

Google R&D centre, Haifa, in ISRAEL - by David Shay

Meanwhile, "the feds have formally declared that they have begun an inquiry into whether Google's Book Search deal violates the Sherman Antitrust Act...

"Meanwhile, Google's dynamic new operating system Android has just run into a rare stumbling block... a Nokia representative told the press that the company had no plans at all for an Android phone...

"Disney has finally begun posting movies and television shows on Hulu, adding to the repertoire of content you can't watch on YouTube." - Google's Dark Day

Meanwhile: "Last week, users of Google App Engine - Google's application hosting platform - discovered a new feature in the product: downtime.

"App Engine was offline for roughly six hours, and for much of that time, even the status page which tells users about downtime was unavailable. Now that's a strong way to send a message...

"Watching Google's response to the App Engine downtime reminded me of the cruel 2008 US Vice Presidential debates, where everyone watching just wanted to pull Sarah Palin aside and say 'Sweetie, this is a grown-up event. You need to use your big-girl words now...'

"Google's introverted population certainly knows that it's easier and cheaper to legalese your way out of a customer's problem than it is to hire a person to pick up the phone."

Meanwhile, as Twitter and Facebook prosper, Google's YouTube seems to have adopted the worst design that anyone can imagine.

YouTube is the new General Motors.

Ex-Agent: CIA Seed Money Helped Launch Google

CIA enlists Google's help for spy work - Times Online

Google and the CIA

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Enquisite Seeks to Change the SEO Market

Enquisite seeks to increase the organic search traffic of a website. It fills the gap of the SEO market that lacks good metrics. I've recently seen a sprouting of SEO technology solutions whether analytics or automating optimization, so this is another entrant into this growing space. Here is a description of their solution:

"We offer an unprecedented level of rich, deep, automated keyword potential analysis and detailed segmentation that allows SEO practitioners to achieve orders of magnitude higher degree of organic search optimization. Algorithms take into account multi-variable optimization potential, not just query volume.

Bounce rate. Time on site. Actions. Conversions. And a host of other variables are woven into our optimization technology. It ensures that you spend your time and energy on optimizing the high potential keywords, not the ones that don’t matter."

Richard Zwicky is the Founder and President. He came up with the idea to create an algorithm that predicts consumer search behavior. Enquisite's technology seeks to predict who is most likely to buy a product, and then aggregates this data in a formula for pricing organic search results.

Mark Hoffman is the Chairman and CEO, who I assume Enquisite's investors brought in and a big catch for the company. As you may know, he was the Founder and CEO of Sybase and Commerce One, which were both billion dollar companies. Most recently he was CEO and President of Everdream, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) desktop management provider, which was acquired by Dell.

It will be interesting to see how effective their technology and analytics are, and how it will affect the SEO market. While their literature states it's for SEO practitioners, I assume it will be a threat to traditional SEO agencies and consultants. If you have the tools in-house with a decent marketing team, why would you need to outsource out your SEO effort? Enquisite is one of a few new companies that seeks to open the curtain behind the wizards of SEO. Let's see how this plays out.

Google Fusion Tables

Out of Google Labs is Fusion Tables where you can share and discuss data that you upload here. Very cool.

They started with a table of Country GDPs in the world, Global Climate Change Projections, and some others. Check it out.

The Necessity of Management Innovation

Innovation regarding the way we run and manage our companies will be a key requirement to foster business model innovation. Financial Times management writer, Stefan Stern, and Peter Marsh wrote an excellent article on innovative management structures in the FT.

They portrait Terri Kelly, CEO of WL Gore, a $2.5bn turnover company, which is characterized by a totally flat organizational structure.

"Leaders emerge through a democratic process rather than being appointed from the top, and peer appraisal is crucial to both salary levels and career advancement."

Ms Kelly makes a clear case for this type of "democratic management" that would probably steal most traditional managers' sleep. She argues that decisions reached together are pursued much more energetically:

"I think that what you find in a lot of companies is that if there isn’t true support for the decision, it gets undermined along the way. In fact, it may never come to fruition. So on the one hand you’ve made a very quick decision – ‘We’re going to go to China’ – but then you’ve got all kinds of resistance.”

Same goes for business model innovation. The lateral and multi-disciplinary nature of business model innovation projects require the motivation and true buy-in from all parties involved. Top-level support, while necessary, wont be sufficient to succeed.

A must read as to management innovation is Gary Hamel's book "The Future of Management". WL Gore is one of the examples which he explains in-depth. Others are Google, Whole Foods Market and Semco. Good Stuff. Gary Hamel has the merit of being the first "management guru" to raise awareness of this topic at the board level (read the NY Times book review).

Impressively, Gary Hamel, one of the most influentual management thinkers today, didn't just leave it with writing a book. In June this year he gathered 30 leaders in management development, education, consulting, and the CEOs of Whole Foods, Gore, Ideo, Google, and HCL to discuss "the future of management". He mobilized the crème de la crème of management thinking, such as Henry Mintzberg, C.K. Prahalad, Tim Brown, Peter Senge, ... (too many gurus to mention them all). His gathering question was “why can’t we bring as much innovation, adaptation, and engagement to our organizations as we do to our development of products and technologies?”.

Read more about this event on David Sibbet's blog.