Mike Arrington notes that Google is walling off its news garden and keeping other services from spidering it.
Mike is right to point this out as hypocrisy. Google is making money off of other people’s work and wants to have some exclusivity.
Imagine if they did this with Blogger. To tell you the truth I’m very shocked Google hasn’t behaved like this earlier.
Here’s why walled gardens are important to companies (and why we hate them).
How To Grow Your Network Marketing Garden
The story of the sower of seed in the Bible is an example of how someone can grow a network marketing business. In this story, a sower goes out and cast seed everywhere. Some falls on a path where birds pick it up and eat it, some falls on rocky ground where it can’t take root, some falls among thorns where it is choked out, and some falls on fertile soil and takes root and grows up into a great crop.
Spring! And How Does Your Garden (business) Grow?
The first step is to map out how large an area you want for your garden (business plan) and what types of seeds (new products) you want to plant (launch). You might try starting the plants indoors (test marketing) before exposing them to the perils of he natural elements (retail market).
How to Start and Run a Landscape & Garden Maintenance Business
Statistics show that nine out of every ten new businesses fail. Most of these businesses fail within the first year. The rest don’t make it past their third anniversary. Given such dismal odds why would you want to start a landscaping or interiorscaping business?
The Garden of Your Mind
If you think of your mind as a garden, what have you planted? You know what’s planted there by what’s growing!
Writing From Your Garden of Experience
Who knows how many times I read these words of advice before I finally heeded them? Heck, I didn’t want to write about my boring old life–I wanted, through writing, to *escape* from my life, or to *change* it!