Interesting thread about Google’s origins. It’s not the best source, notes from a 2003 talk, but it mentions a few facts I hadn’t heard before of annotations being the goal of Pagerank, not search. (From Googlesystem)
Dying professor gives last lecture. Anyone in CMU circles knows about this one, but for those who don’t I highly recommend it. Unexpectedly good and inspiring.
Information week’s new blog, The New age of Innovation. This smells of MBA business school hype-laden rhetoric, but I haven’t poked around enough yet to pull out the hatchet. If you check it out, let me know what you think.
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Hi Scott,
I checked out the “The New age of Innovation” and liked it from what I read so far.
Would be great to know what you thought.
Premal