Adam Lashinsky of CNN/ Fortune posted an interesting piece on Google"s brain drain -- more and more employees leaving to create their own, less bureaucratic and thus more agile start-ups -- and Google"s present and future challenges. Like balancing and moderating the needs of various teams, as well as trying to consolidate different product efforts. From the article: At Google, what you often end up with instead of resource allocation is a laissez-faire mess. Take, for example, the hassles Dave Girouard had to face. Girouard is vice president in charge of Google Apps, the company"s fledgling initiative to sell Web-based software applications to businesses. He wanted some alterations to Gmail to make the e-mail product more appealing to h ...

Bernhard Warner at the Times Online blog writes: For many Romans, these are jittery times. For the first time in a generation, the mayor of the Eternal City, once a left-wing stronghold, is on the political right. Gianni Alemanno, a former neo-Fascist, swept to power late last month on a tough-on-crime platform that included bulldozing encampments of Roma people, expelling supposedly violent foreigners and installing London-like surveillance cameras around town. So a group of Romans can be forgiven on Wednesday afternoon for assuming the worst when a black car sporting a massive, rotating video camera, slowly drove down Viale Trastevere, a busy thoroughfare, filmin ...

For around 10 minutes at O"Reilly"s web conference, Google"s Matt Cutts talked about spam: how Google detects it, which kind of systems are better made to defend against it, and also, how you can protect your own site against attacks and avoid looking like a spammer due to malicious software being installed. The slides to Matt"s presentation are available at his blog. [Thanks Miss Universe!]

Noam Chomsky, author and institute professor at the Massachussets Institute of Technology, visited Google"s Cambridge office for a question & answers session last month. Topics covered are the concept of universal grammar and how this branch changed over time; positive progress recent generations made towards better understanding of history; pros and cons of the internet as a medium in comparison t ...

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