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I couldn’t help but have a bit of a chuckle when I saw this article this morning.

Is Google Too Powerful?

Where did I find it? Why, in my gmail account of course. THAT’S how powerful Google is. Long ago I pretty much ditched my hotmail account and adopted Gmail by the mere fact that I changed service providers for the first time in 8 years.

Fact is, I’ve lost literally thousands of dollars in lost revenue from personal web pages on old ISP servers that I could no longer retrieve because I either moved or they were bought out by another ISP, or some other sillyness that ensued.

The bulk of my business contacts have now reside with my gmail account and though that makes me slightly nervous, I embraced it on the basis of google’s continuing longevity.

But everything has it’s heyday. There’s always a new mover and shaker, always a new trend. Youtube is my favorite example of this.

Is Google too powerful? Maybe, but while I may have a bit of a love/hate relationship with google right now, I’d like it to remain powerful for a while.

Commercials turning into pilot projects? Hmm… As much as my wife and I giggle over these 30 seconds of pure joy, I’m not 100% sure that 30 seconds can translate into a 30 minute comedy pilot. Yet, that’s exactly what ABC is planning on doing.

ABC developing ‘Cavemen’

So, what is this exactly? Is this art imitating art? Is it the ultimate in product placement? I’m not sure. Certainly this particular commercial captured my interest enough that I went searching for it on YouTube. In fact, 9 times out of 10 the reason why I surf over to Youtube is just so I can watch something on my own time that I thought was funny on tv, be it commercials, talk show moments or political faux pas. What I don’t use YouTube for is to peer into people’s living rooms while I listen to their bad karoake.

I’m pretty skeptical about how far an idea should go. I’ve been a fan of Geico commercials for years but the question remains: will I have the patience to sit through a 30 minute spoof or a spoof of a wha…?

The answer is obvious to me. Since I haven’t made the technological jump to TiVo or a personal DVR more likely then not, I’ll just surf over to Youtube when I’m interested.

I think this is going to jump the shark before it starts.