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Not true, I was at Google at the time and many of us complained mightily on our internal forums. That said, there were a disturbing number of middle-level mana
by varelse 12y ago
Not true, I was at Google at the time and many of us complained mightily on our internal forums.
That said, there were a disturbing number of middle-level management types that would high five every move Google made, good or bad. And I think they turn into the echo chamber that gives idiocy like this its momentum.
- 3rd3 12y agoThe huge success of Facebook and Twitter, the Social Network movie (October 2010) and the introduction of Apple’s iTunes Ping (September 2010) probably added a lot to this momentum.
- derefr 12y agoNow that's a funny image: I'm imagining a time-traveller coming back from the future where Google has created Skynet, and telling Apple "if you create a social network in 2010—don't worry, you can shut it down a year later—you'll scare Google into pushing their own social network out the door, it'll infect their tech culture utterly, and you'll gain a five-year lead on anything you want to put out from them on. (Also, the timeline will be saved.)"
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