Who Should Be Fired Over The Google Email?

by Nathan Weinberg

So, the author of the now infamous ex-Googler email has been revealed, and Geoffrey Elliott is none too happy about the whole situation. See, he worked at Microsoft, left to start a startup, the startup got bought by Google, and he left Google to return to Microsoft. His Microsoft recruiter sent him some questions about life at Google, and in the context of a private conversation, he sent along his thoughts.

That is a shame that his privacy has been ruined like that. Isn’t job interview contents supposed to be kept in between the applicant and the authorized person in HR just as the recommendation letters are kept sealed until it is delivered to the recruiting HR people?
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AppleWatch Live: Episode 4

This is a cool summary. Jason Schramm talks about Iphone launch and Mac OSX upadtes.

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Google Russia Resurrects Answers as Questions And Answers

Nathan Weinberg from BNC(blog news channel) posted an article on Google Russia.
They have launched a web site with a cool design called Google Answers and Questions.
It can be considered as a newer version of Google Answers where people pay money to ask questions. This newer version is not involved with money at all to interact with it.

New Version Of AdSense Referrals Launched

By Nathan Weinberg
Google has significantly improved its referral program for AdSense, calling the new version Referrals 2.0. They say that the new version has thousands of products to choose from, category and keyword targeting to suggest the best products for your site, and a “Pick best performing ads” option which automatically displays ads expected to perform best. The new interface is pictured behind that link.more

Search public source code on Google

Google has launched a beta version of code search. It is showing snippet of codes and group them with identical codes. It is worth your try! Click 2 try

Mossberg, Ask.com "Goes Much Further" Than Google

Recently I have introduced the new designs of ask.com. They were pretty cool. Now Ask.com starting to get feedbacks.
Here is one of them.
"Ask.com Takes Lead In Designing Display Of Search Results by Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews Ask.com's new 3D look." more

Is Google Losing Its Magic For Employees?

Search engine land has a posting today about a Wall Street Journal's article.


"Today's Wall Street Journal featured an article entitled Start-Ups Make Inroads With Google's Work Force, which focused on emerging potential retention problems at Google (in particular vs. Facebook)." more

Web base file search for Español users

This search is stating that effective search with pretty good selections of file extensions and safe search for our young population.
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Cyber-bullying on the rise in US

Cyber crimes have been there with a big risk. Glad that BBC is dealing on this.
Following is a quote from the posting and here is the link to the BBC article.

"This.. according to a BBC News report. Research by the Pew Internet Project showed that one third of US online teenagers have been victims of cyber-bullying." more
Direct link to BBC article

Building Flash CS3 components

Ok, I found the original page for the Tutorial. It is very helpful. I am sure it is worth your click.
"Issue: Develop an ActionScript 3 component for Flash CS3 that resizes correctly and has a live preview."
Tutorial page