Archive for October, 2006

Spaceship One at the Googleplex

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

At first I was not sure this morning when I saw it, but it is definitely a replica of the real space craft. It just looks that little bit too clean and shiny to have been into space. But it is still very, very cool. It is amazingly small!

Channel 4 looses LOST to Sky

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I have previously confessed to my family’s addiction to LOST. So ever since the third season started on ABC three weeks ago, we have been very excited.
In the UK though Sky has spent big money on preventing the majority of the population from watching LOST. Personally I could not care less, as there are plenty […]

Telecoms Survey in The Economist

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

If you don’t read The Economist (and you should, really!) then this week is a great time to start the habit. Their survey on Telecoms Convergence is, as usual, excellent. All you need to know on the subject. And everything the operators don’t want you to know.

Culture of Innovation at W.L.Gore

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Somebody at work sent around this slightly older article today about the maker of Gore-Tex. I found it extremely inspiring and definitely worth reading. A lot of the culture at Gore seems to be very similar to how things work here at Google and I was really surprised to see that some of this stuff […]

Things look dire over at Yahoo!

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

“Is this what happens when redundancies attack?”
I don’t know any details (wink), but it seems like people in my old team at Yahoo! are not having a particularly good time.
In that context it sure can’t help that the NYT published this article today, which sounds to me like it is pretty spot on in identifying […]

Woah, Scrybe!

Monday, October 9th, 2006

While generally enthusiastic about new products, I am not that easily wowed. However, I just watched this video preview of Scrybe, a new kind of online organiser and wholy smokes, I am pretty impressed. Scrybe is only going into a public beta later this month, but if it delivers anything like the experience that they […]