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I had the privilege of attending a business breakfast this week. The speaker? Patrick Pichette, Chief Financial Officer of Google.

What an amazing way to start a new day! I have summarized a few soundbites worth sharing:

• There are two types of economies: a regular one and a digital one.
• Facebook accounts for 5 per cent of all Internet traffic.
• Everything that was offline, will be online.
• Everything will be localized to you.
• Search is be personal. The focus is you. See my previous post - right on!
• If everything is in the cloud, Chrome OS should be fast. Not more going down for coffee until the computer reboots.
• Innovation is dirt cheap!
• The only bottleneck is …imagination!

A mind-blowing reality: Google has the power to change the world through innovation. That’s the power to Think Infinite.

A recent search [#pcto2010] revealed something new to me: Google quietly released a new search feature – S2 or Social Search. All of a sudden “search” becomes more centric, it feels like typing on a round keyboard. Yes, there is such a thing, but I prefer my qwerty keyboard.

The first two coordinates of this circle are me and …myself! It may be the BETA feature.

A few people have asked me what do I think about Google Buzz? Not much! For now, there seems to be more noise than buzz. Certainly Buzz does not have Twitter’s critical mass to make it valuable at this point.

In the long run, yes, it might steal some of Twitter’s chirp, however I see Buzz more of a Gmail add-on. And Gmail does not own the webmail space.

And chances are you’ll be busy emailing your friends on Facebook soon.

So think about this: if Buzz does not make it above a certain noise level, Google’s social credibility is gone. And that might just kill Wave too.

Brilliant strategy, Goog!
Happy tweeting my friends!