Why does google plan to take its services and terminates them?
The ax fell on Wednesday at Google, not just for some of the company’s employees but for six of its services, too. In addition to Google’s announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it’s discontinuing the ability to upload videos to Google Video. High profile VC John Doerr talks to Web 2.0 Summit attendees about the state of the economy, the direction of technology investment and the importance of the iPhone platform. Grateful Dead Lyracist and digital rights activist John Perry Barlow says ‘let content providers make money on services, experience.’ The CIO of Sudler & Hennessey talks about what the right applications for the cloud are — and concludes that while office apps and databases may fit there, graphics intensive apps do not. Grateful Dead Lyracis
