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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

my other side: ivo.blogspot.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

my other side: ivo.blogspot.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?

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