With ‘The Social Network’ Facebook movie premiering in less than six weeks, producers are already looking for the next big nerd film… and the story of Google may be it. According to Deadline New York, “The founders of Facebook aren’t the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael [...]
First Facebook, Now Google
August 22nd, 2010Google Hotshot Sergey Brin Visits Haiti
January 24th, 2010In the wake of the 6.1 aftershock in Haiti that caused even more destruction, Google honcho Brin made a trip in person to view the damage. He writes: … immense challenges do remain and it is a race around the clock to prevent suffering, untreated injury, and loss of life. I believe there are several [...]
Google the Most Attractive Employer
October 31st, 2009People want to work for Google – why? Universum just released their report which showed that globally, Google is the “most attractive employer”, being ranked number one in the top 50 global businesses and engineering companies categories. Microsoft wasclose behind, with a second place in engineering and third in business. Apparently being a geek is [...]
See the Sergey Brin Video!
October 27th, 2009Sergey Brin can now be seen in this 18 minute video: The Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise visit to the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday, and spectators enjoyed seeing him interviewed on-stage by John Battelle. Brin has a clear sense of direction, and big plans for the future – as well as interesting taste [...]
Is Yahoo Really Abandoning Search?
October 24th, 2009Yahoo CFO Tim Morse, led the quarterly earnings call this week since CEO Carol Bartz was ill. Bartz could perhaps have handled the call with more aplomb, but Morse did draw from her trademark speech style by using an analogy of Bartz’s to describe Yahoo’s improved way of working around around search: The next revolution [...]