John McCain has picked his running mate (announcement tomorrow) and a theory in Denver is that it’s ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman. If true, is this a good choice?
John McCain has picked his running mate
(announcement tomorrow) and a theory in Denver is that it’s ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman. If true, is this a good choice?
After some thought, we actually think it is.
That wasn’t our first reaction. But our current impression of Meg is colored by the fact that we hold her responsible for the collapse of eBay. (Meg was solid in her early years as eBay CEO, but, in our opinion, she then retired on the job. eBay stopped innovating about eight years ago, shifted into cruise control, made some ludicrous acquisitions to try to prop up growth, and ultimately smashed into the rocks.)
Overall, we think the perception of Meg’s CEO skills exceeds the reality.* But that said…
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The Facebook Movie - Aaaron Sorkin Writing a Movie About The Founding Of The Popular Social Network.
The Facebook story is coming soon to a cineplex near you. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin confirmed yesterday on a Facebook group that he is writing a movie about the founding of the popular social network. A day after Facebook announced that it reached 100 million users around the world, Sorkin (or his assistant) wrote on the group page that he “just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented.” Read The Rest
I just wonder; Will Aaron Sorkin will make a research or listen to Connectu’s founders before writing about that stuff? I don’t think so. If they’ll use “facebook” name in the film, Sorkin will obey Zuckerberg ’s rules
Have You Seen The Russian Founder of Google Sergey Brin While Talking Russian?
Here is an interview in Moscow with Sergey Brin;
How Google’s cafes turned into hell’s kitchens
Live by the fork, die by the fork. Now that Google is cutting back on its free food, where will its flacks woo journalists? Morale in Google’s kitchens is rock-bottom, as leaderless workers try to keep understaffed cafes running, even as Google management insists they open new eateries. The last place Google’s PR staff should want to entertain a reporter is in their cafes. The tragedy of it all: As we learn more about how the Googleplex’s food operations fell apart, it sounds like Google executives’ ego got in the way of thinking about the needs of employees — or the workers who keep them fed. Read The Rest
Photo By: Jeremy Henry
Steve Jobs’s Fail: He parked his car in the handicap spot, Probably he was thinking about iphone 3g
Valleywag spies were busy last weekend. “I was at a party in Palo Alto on Saturday night two doors down from Steve Jobs’s house, and in the morning i was coming out with my bike and walked right in front of him on the sidewalk,” writes one. Read The Rest
Photo Credit: Rana Sobhany
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