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At Social Media Systems we’ve been discussing how to build out a healthy blogroll, both to aid our visitors, provide valuable content,…
Robert Cringley writes a provocative post about Google’s 20% time and that it’ll cause problems in the future as employees get frustrated that their ideas aren’t getting implemented. I think he underestimates what’s going on inside Google.
Once upon a time, if you typed “she invents,” Google tried to tell you it was “he invents.” This applied to a lot of other queries, as well, and a number of people grew unhappy with these apparent examples of sexism. Now Google’s programmers seem to have gone in and tweaked the engine, and “she” is allowed to invent things. Google Ditches Sexist "Did You…
CNN has long held out with its paid video subscription model, especially for its streaming “Pipeline,” started in 2005 and priced at $25/year.
Updates are usually good things, resulting in a cool new design, added features, or greater reliability. But MyBlogLog seems to have goofed - while introducing tagging to its site, the Yahoo-owned social network basically called social media optimizers “spammers” and “schmoes.”
It’s a well-known fact that Google frequently lets its employees do their own thing on company time. Many of those employees then come up with brilliant ideas, but the search engine giant - wealthy as it is - doesn’t have money to pursue them all. In the long term, do those employees go on to get rich, or get screwed?
