I don't even know what to say about this. Woz apparently just does whatever the hell he feels like, and right now he feels like appearing (with his Segway) in a local commercial for a Toyota dealership and repair shop. "It's a ten!" is right. It takes a special kind of celebrity to stoop to doing local car commercials and only come out more likable on the other side. Go get 'em, Wozzer....
What did we learn reading Ken Auletta's book " Googled: The End Of The World As We Know It ?" For one, we learned that at one point in Google's history, Sergey Brin wanted to start a hedge fund. His thinking was Google had better access to data, and would therefore produce superior returns. We also learned that this kind of ridiculous ambition is a perfect illustration of Google. One the...
FT | To say MySpace was a hot property back in 2005 is something of an understatement. Its rapidly expanding tribe of users had attracted the attention of other potential buyers. Viacom, for one, a rival media conglomerate that owns companies such as Paramount Pictures and Comedy Central, was eyeing it as a vehicle to revive its flagging MTV channel, a similarly youth-oriented brand. But Murdoch got...
A bunch of big name tech companies have come out against Peter Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill . They're most concerned with the clause that gives Mandelson (a guy who resigned elected position in disgrace twice) the ability to flat out change copyright laws on a whim with no real oversight. Amazingly, Mandelson had his staffers try to make the case for this clause: "The law must keep pace with...
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at Google? What hidden secrets there are in the labyrinthine tunnels of the Googleplex? How Sergey Brin and Larry Page spend their days plotting their world takeover? Well now you can find out! Tomorrow night at 9PM ET/PT, CNBC will be running a one-hour special called [...]
It’s the dawn of the Vince Young era. # I think I’m about a month late in realizing it, but just noticed that it’s been 3 years since I signed on and helped get Pangea Media going. # @heyitsnoah In 2007, Sergey Brin said it was 1% of all searches http://bit.ly/w7Ag # Took the “what junk food am [...]
Illustration by Joon Mo Kang Google’s Earth By Nicholson Baker Published, New York Times: November 27, 2009 GOOGLED The End of the World as We Know It By Ken Auletta 384 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95 I’m fond of Google, I have to say. I like Larry Page, who seems, at least in the YouTube videos I’ve watched, shy and smart, with salt-and-pepper bangs; and Sergey Brin, who seems less...
On May 09, at the Google I/O, Lars Rasmussen presented the google Wave and now (during a long trip in europe) he is presenting "the next generation google communication product" also at the Prague Google Developer Day.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. He spoke briefly with John Battelle. Below find the Q&A (paraphrased): JB: So you got to chat with Tim Armstrong. Do you miss him? SB: Oh yeah it’s great to see him here. We miss him a lot. But it’s great for AOL to have a leader like him. JB: So yesterday the Twitter deal, how did...
Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company. The move could be seen as laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, though the social network said it had no plans to go public "at this time". The dual-class structure is what Google Inc's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created...
If I show up for something on time, it's probably an accident. Some of us just weren't born with internal clocks that sync up with the rest of the world—these gifts are for people who're late for everything. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here . Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock : Step one to showing up on time is getting up on time, and there's simply...
At Macworld 2009 the documentary Welcome to Macintosh was screened to an audience of notable Apple personalities that included Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki, Leander Kahney, Jim Reekes, Ron Wayne and a surprise guest: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer. All had good things to say! Also, In celebration of 25 years of the Mac, the makers of Welcome to Macintosh introduce an international User...
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