Ugh so sick… and not from alcohol this time

RT @dferrantino My building sounds like a rocking ship whenever it rains

JETS BABY #nyjets

Yes we can!

You can do it Conan

Thanks to Leo Efstathiou for recommending this article.

As immense a company as Google is, and as much information they control, they know that when facing competition or impedance from China and its government, their hands are bound.

Google knows that it has few alternatives:

The first is obvious – cooperate with Chinese laws, as draconian as they may be in the eyes of the West, and make whatever money they can.

The second is to exert some kind of influence over the Chinese to help free up their market and allow greater freedom for businesses and individuals. This option, when dealing with a country as large and powerful as China, is probably reserved for other governments. Considering how weak the West has been in trying to push this agenda on the Chinese, it’s likely foregone.

The third, and less obvious/expected, choice for any profit-making enterprise is to stop doing business if you can’t do it your way.

Google, in an effort to get China to bend and allow them to do business they way they see fit, is actually mulling over this third, seemingly impossible, alternative.

Can Google really succeed without China? Do they really want to try?

All I can think is that if they do withdraw from the Red Empire, I’d be shorting Google’s stock and buying Baidu’s.

Read the full statement from Google on their blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

First, and hopefully longest, week of 2010 is in the books. Still feels too much like 2009…

RT @jyohh medium movie popcorn = 3 McD’s quarter pounders with 12 pats of butter: 1,610 calories and 60g of fat http://bit.ly/3H1gq3