Googled
the end of the world as we know it
by Ken Auletta · first published 2009
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A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media landscape. There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses—from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft. With unprecedented access to Google's founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads abo
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…their home-country after graduation. I then stayed in my country went to university to get a "useless" B.A. that couldn't help me to face the socio-economic realities of the world. In 2015 i read a book "Googled" by Ken Auletta that shacked me to the core and pushed me to learn how to code. I'm now a self taught programmer with skills that will benefit any French Tech startup and products' projects that could…
on “Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France” ↗…so now I'm working on refining the account / profile "stuff" in Quoddy and factoring out some common code for use in another project[4]. I'm also trying to get in a fair bit of reading. I had started Googled[5] before the break, and I finished that earlier today. I'd also started Simply Complexity[6], which I finished sometime in the last 24 hours or so (time is starting to become a fuzzy concept to me here).…
on “Ask HN: What are you working on over the winter break?” ↗The great thing is they brand it "Content from Wikipedia" so you know to avoid it. Some books (eg, Googled by Ken Auletta) require interviews with over 50 people - something away and beyond ripping off web content.
on “Would you pay $62 for a Wikipedia article?” ↗There is a horrible story in the book “Googled” by Ken Auletta. There is this panel at Davos in 1998, and a couple of executives at Google are there, along a few pseudo-intellectuals of the digerati like Mary Meeker and Esther Dyson. At the end of…
on “The False Prophecy of Hyperconnection” ↗…"Silicon Valley and its satellites"). As for the second argument, I trust there is much progress in terms of tackling politics and history in SV, but many sources contributed to forming my opinion: - In "Googled" (published in 2004), Ken Auletta of the "New Yorker" explains in great detail how clueless Google initially was in dealing with Washington, DC., a trait he claims can be linked to the naïveté of engineers…
on “Enough with Basic Income” ↗