Having a person coming out of Google would be great not only because you know they have some skills, but that they are completely committed and determined to get it done. What a great coworker they would be!.
For some reason I just cant agree with you.
While motivating yourself to accomplish your goals is pretty much the entire purpose of life, what makes a degree automatically one of those goals?
If college is needed to accomplish your future then by all means run headlong into it, and make the decision to enjoy every minute of it. But I think it is a mistake to confuse a college degree with the ability to motivate yourself to do what you decide you want.
Hilarious! While it is obvious for a company to keep tabs on how to act around certain news fiends it is amazing that someone would send those notes to the person.
Well Alex makes an interesting point, that you would need more skill to get a big return on the little hands, but I still think that if you had a large sum of capital and you were especially good at the poking, that small investments would pay off exceptionally well.
Well I do enjoy you using the "Viral=Good" thing.
I think a lot of people and advertisers who try to make something viral forget that the entire reason something becomes viral is because people like the content, not because you have some sort of voodoo.
If you want to make something viral, make something good. :D
As an infrequent blogger I do know that one of the hardest things is coming up with good and relevant content, and a post about some new web business that is starting up is not only pretty easy and interesting, but a serious cool factor as well.
I can see this really taking off, and people even fighting to cover stories first!
Well personally I find that keeping secrets hurts any relationship, company or personal.
People are bloody minded bastards when they think you are not on their side, but when you clean up your messes and make them feel included they will take a bullet for you.
Well he is right of course, Woz needs a Jobs, or at least someone who is significantly part Jobs to get anywhere, designing cool things is definitely an enviable ability, but without someone to focus that ability you have the worlds smartest garbage man.
Social networks are an interesting thing, Myspace in particular, on one side you have the people who actually find people who can help them and contribute to some sort of group project, and the other side where people feel popular and find friends, both of these are powerful and contribute to a lot of page views ;)
It is an interesting equation, if it costs them almost nothing to create and 10 people buy it, the profit margins are astounding!
Not that I know anyone who would buy a facebook gift, but it still is a smart concept. You can see it a lot in some new Korean MMO games that have come out, where they charge small fees for equipment that doesn't cost them anything to produce after the initial design phase. This model isn't new by any means, but it always surprised me when it worked.
Interesting, I especially liked the idea of interconnecting already popular applications to increase overall functionality.
Adding iCal would have been trivial compared to the amount of traffic it must have garnered.
Yeah, if I have learned anything from watching various startups and the like is that bureaucracy kills you, better to give a small team of developers with concise goals some money and have someone keep them on track. If they need more people then let them explain why, and how they are going to use them.
Wow, that is an amazing amount, I will be very interested to see what they can accomplish with this amount, I checked out their site and it makes me very hopeful!
I would have to agree, the problem is when you have to self measure a potential projects earnings before it comes into a large circulation.
I think it would be very easy to over/under estimate a projects worth, personally I would think that a percentage of profits over a certain period of time plus a smaller lump sum would be ideal for me.
I am a little new to this game but I would assume it would also increase my motivation to see a project come to fruition if I had a more longterm stake in it.