Life at Google – The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say “No” To Google: interesting article.
Another advantage of free food (if used properly) is to guarantee a good diet for your employees.
At Google, lunch is sacred (just like in France): you don’t skip lunch, you avoid scheduling meeting over lunch, you don’t grab food and eat it at your desk. Lunch is fun, lunch is joyful and a very good informal way to exchange information within the team.
Boston University unveils technology incubator with a twist: Boston University’s new business and technology incubator, the Entrepreneurial Research Laboratory (ERL), will provide free incubator space to young entrepreneurs who give back to the school by presenting guest lectures on their innovative work.
How to Win a Marathon – WSJ.com: even you can do it.
Innovation | Lessons from Apple | Economist.com:
The wider lesson is not to stigmatise failure but to tolerate it and learn from it: Europe’s inability to create a rival to Silicon Valley owes much to its tougher bankruptcy laws.
1-800-GOOG-411 | Webware100 : Cool Web apps for everyone: read for yourself.
The entire service runs off voice-recognition technology. If that fails, you can dial in the name of the business you’re looking for. The one thing still missing is residential listings, but otherwise it’s a really handy service that’s worth putting on your mobile phone’s speed dial.
