A quick background to this post; this morning several friends and I had a conversation spawn about the value of Twitter to the masses. The discussion started between myself (@mattsolar) and my close friend, Pete (@petekuhn). Since we’re both bearish on Twitter’s value I decided to rope in another good […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
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This morning a highly publicized post from a top Designer at Google (http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html) illustrated some details about the culture of Google and their analytical dependence on data. I was curious to see if the issue was as significant as John Battelle mentioned on his blog. A quick review of employee […]
For a long time I’ve privately wondered what the relationship is between Google CEO Eric Schmidt and “The Kids in the Hall” genius Mark McKinney. Watching the Charlie Rose interview gave me the motivation to take my speculations public. They look identical and, given the small population of McKinney’s “home” […]
I have my Tivo setup to record any program containing “Google” in the description, and I wouldn’t have learned about these otherwise. Charlie Rose recently inverviewed both Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, and Marissa Mayer, V.P. of Search Product and User Experience. I’ve linked to the 7 minute highlights, but […]
Here’s a very important note on Google’s belief of privacy: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/exclusive-google-takes-stand-location-privacy-alon The key point; “Google has confirmed that its policy will be to require a wiretap order before tracking a Latitude user’s location for law enforcement.” It’s good to see that they still follow their, “Don’t Be Evil” motto. I’m […]