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The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.

Social became state-owned, a corporate mandate called Google+.

Even worse was that innovation had to be social. Ideas that failed to put Google+ at the center of the universe were a distraction.

Officially, Google declared that “sharing is broken on the web” and nothing but the full force of our collective minds around Google+ could fix it.

Google Labs was shut down. App Engine fees were raised. APIs that had been free for years were deprecated or provided for a fee. As the trappings of entrepreneurship were dismantled, derisive talk of the “old Google” and its feeble attempts at competing with Facebook surfaced to justify a “new Google” that promised “more wood behind fewer arrows.”

The days of old Google hiring smart people and empowering them to invent the future was gone.

People were sharing all around us and seemed quite happy. A user exodus from Facebook never materialized. I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.”

The old Google made a fortune on ads because they had good content. It was like TV used to be: make the best show and you get the most ad revenue from commercials. The new Google seems more focused on the commercials themselves.

The old Google was a great place to work. The new one? -1.

See the whole rant:
Why I Left Google
at MSDN.com

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hiring is a confidence game If I’m the hiring manager, the best way you can mitigate my risk aversion is by showing me how comfortably confident you are: that you have the skills, experience, interpersonal acumen and other traits required to handle a difficult position in my organization. Said another way: the best available evidence indicates to me that you are targeting the right job.

See the whole article:
How to Get Hired: Insights from the Other Side of the Desk
at Forbes.com

Intel press release named #LightPeak as Thunderbolt! The fastest data transfer technology. And Intel offers it first to Apple MBP line.

Source: intel website
http://j.mp/gahn2N
—bb@setyadi.com

Google-blog stated that Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results and denies it. A Google fellow there, explain it on how Google experimented to prove their suspicion.

You can read the whole story here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html

What do you think?

Zee wrote this article.

Torrent sharing site The Pirate Bay has been taken offline by its primary ISP – Black Internet.

According to a decision by the Stockholm District Court to the ISP Black Internet to stop supplying capacity to the Pirate Bay, or risk a penalty of 500,000 Swedish kronor (£43,000/$71,000).

“We received the decision on penalty just after lunch and turned the capacity just before three approximately. There are laws and rules in society and should be followed. What we like it here and how we act in the future, we have not decided yet, “says Black Internet’s CEO Victor Moller to DN.se.

Former spokesperson for the site Peter Sunde has been tweeting: “A Swedish court apparantly decided it is illegal to be an ISP”, following that up with “it’s a scandal as usual of course”.

black Internet is not the only company that sells capacity to Pirate Bay, but Victor Moller says that it is all that now threatened with the penalty. He assumes that Black Internet is the largest supplier to the Pirate Bay.

“They will be able to redirect and get the capacity from elsewhere, but of course it takes some time,” says Victor Moller.

update: it’s up again!

The case of Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer charged with stealing some of the top secret code to the investment bank’s high-frequency trading program, is going on the offensive.

UPDATE: Just got a copy of Goldman’s motion and it appears much of what Aleynikov wants are personnel records regarding ”performance reviews by peers and superiors, complaints, employee progress reports, training history records” etc.

Goldman says Aleynikov’s request should be denied because the “crux of the complaint is an allegation of theft, not an employment or wage dispute.”

UPDATE 2.0: Goldman smackdown, courtesy of Judge Crotty, who gave a pretty hard time to Goldman’s lawyer in court. Aleynikov got access to his personnel file, as requested, and Goldman got nothing. I guess Goldman doesn’t win all the time.

Read the full article on Reuters blog

Read more about What Sergey really do at Goldman

UPDATE:
Goldman Sachs strikes back.
Aleynikov was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

Sun Makes Java a Free, Open-Source Platform

By Christopher Lawton and Don Clark

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Sun Microsystems Inc. has decided to make its Java software available on an open-source basis, part of the company’s effort to keep current with a technology trend that has changed how programs are written and distributed. The computer maker, significantly, plans to use a licensing scheme that open-source proponents favor. The move by Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., could make it easier for Java to be distributed along with the Linux operating system and other popular open-source products.

Java is a programming language widely used in electronics, including for smart cards and cellphones. But the software has been eclipsed for …

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The opening shots were fired on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in a legislative battle between the US telecommunications and internet industries that both sides warned could undermine innovation and consumer choice on the internet.

Vint Cerf, one of the early pioneers of internet technology and now chief internet evangelist at Google, called on Congress to pass a law preventing telecoms companies from discriminating between the internet services that are carried over their networks.

But representatives of the dominant US telecoms groups said the high level of investment needed to extend broadband networks meant they should have the power to charge internet companies fees in return for guaranteeing a specific level of service.

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