I suppose I’ve propagated that myth with certain posts of mine.  But that was a post on achieving technical success like Google, not on working like Google. Scott Berkun has a blog post about the false beliefs that surround Google’s 20% time (the policy that Google has that engineers get to spend 20% of the […]

Earlier I wrote a post on how it is now possible for a single person to have the power of Google because of all the technologies available. Well, the NYTimes went out and implemented the idea before the ink was even dry on my post.  They’ve now proven it is possible, and their post makes […]

Yahoo has announced they are now using Hadoop, an open source implementation of MapReduce, for processing search data, and they’ve also announced impressive performance gains because of it. While investigating this story I also came across mention of IBM using Hadoop for it’s cloud computing initiative. I think these related stories point towards the future […]