One in Five Facebook Employees Has No Imagination Whatsoever

Whoa! Shocking news, guys. An engineer left Google for Facebook. The great Lars Rasmussen, creator of Google Maps and Google Wave, quit Google Thursday to join Facebook. This has, admittedly, happened before. In June, Matthew Papakipos defected from Google’s Chrome team. In May, it was mobile guru Erick Tseng. Even Facebook’s chef, Josef Desimone, was recruited… Read More

Google Instant and The End of the Homepage

Much of today’s discussion around Google Instant, which returns search results and suggests query refinements as you type in a query, is about how the new technology will change search engine optimization and advertising economics. What I haven’t seen is a discussion of how it will change the most fundamental interaction on the web: between  people… Read More