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Most businesses have a formal and structured environment; at Google, jeans are the norm, and dogs are allowed at work. But in…
From our perspective, it’s going international. From theirs, it’s becoming local. But either way you look at it, YouTube is launching targeted sites for Ireland, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Japan, Brazil, and France.
So, just before interviewing Sun Microsystems’ DTrace team today (that’s a photo of them) I got a call from a source. He said “Semel is out. Yang is taking over.”
Oh, how I hate when social networking software tries to be my parent. Jon Udell touches on this in his post about Facebook: “how do I know this person?” See, the developers who make this software really want to make it hard for you to add more friends. And what the hell is up with calling everyone a “friend” anyway.
Julian distinguishes between Wisdom of Crowds and what you could call the Wisdom of Wikis:
Want to improve your car’s efficiency? Maybe you should hand the keys over to Google; in conjunction with Hymotion/A123Systems, the search engine giant has developed “a small fleet of plug-in hybrids,” and the vehicles have demonstrated a striking ability to slurp less gas.
