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Of course if we go back to the original question, Orkut and Reader were hardly "moonshots" in the first place (and Google Video was arguably just a standard pro
by magicalist 11y ago
Of course if we go back to the original question, Orkut and Reader were hardly "moonshots" in the first place (and Google Video was arguably just a standard project launch).
- gress 11y agoGoogle's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android. By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine.
- magicalist 11y ago> Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android Is it? > By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine If everything is a moonshot, nothing is, etc. AFAIK both projects were just 20% time projects scaled up to three or four people[1]. A "moonshot" is obviously a wishy-washy term, but opportunity for success doesn't seem to be sufficient to call something that. [1] http://massless.org/?archive=2007/05/about-google-readers-birth-part-2 http://massless.org/?archive=2007/05/about-google-readers-bi...
- gress 11y ago> Is it? Yes. They first used the word when referring to Andy Rubin's departure from Android.