Just finished a book talk at Google New York, where more than 400 folks work (and more are coming in each day). The office is split between Ad Sales and Engineering, for the most part, as was the audience – about 200 or so were there. Again, I was…
We also talked – a lot – about the media industry, as one might expect given this town. Needless to say, the ongoing and seismic shifts in media business models is near and dear to the minds of that crowd.
Afterward I got to sign scores of books, and the Google library got one copy as well. My inscription? “Scan This Book!”
If my posting was light yesterday, it was due to my trip south to Yahoo, where I finally got a chance to speak and speak with the folks there, thanks to the kind invitation of the folks in the Technology Development Group (thanks Chad and Jeremy). Jeremy wrote up…
I really like having the chance to interact with so many smart folks who are deeply engaged in the story of search. It’s an honor.
During the Q&A I was asked about privacy, and issue which is asked by every single audience I’ve ever spoken with, and every single press interview I’ve done in the past three months of the book tour. Yesterday at Yahoo I managed to give my “nightmare scenario” a full public airing, and folks didn’t laugh me off the stage, so my next post will sketch it out in full.
I was on the PBS NewsHour yesterday. Transcript is here…….
The Search has debuted in Japanese. Editions are coming out in around ten countries, so far. I sure wish I could read Japanese so I could see how the book is selling……
The Search has debuted in Japanese. Editions are coming out in around ten countries, so far. I sure wish I could read Japanese so I could see how the book is selling…
Alas, The Search did not win the FT Business Book of the Year award. But I'm happy to be in the company of those who were shortlisted, and Thomas Friedman, who won. News first came from Pravda, oddly, but I was there, and it was a fun night nonetheless……
With David's book as well. It's a combo deal. Ugh. I knew that was going to happen. But I'm pleased with it, regardless. From it: "The Google Story" and "The Search" cast those accomplishments in opposite lights. While they overlap considerably – and while both books flatter Google with…
“The Google Story” and “The Search” cast those accomplishments in opposite lights. While they overlap considerably – and while both books flatter Google with covers that mimic its brilliantly modest logo – they interpret Google’s ethics and future prospects differently. The sky’s the limit in “The Google Story,” a glowing, sometimes credulous testament to “that Googley sense of magic.” Mr. Battelle takes a more knowing, technical approach and is more inclined to look for trouble.
I’ll take that.
Read MoreI've just got back from participating in BBC radio's "Start the Week" – an analogy for which does not really exist in the US, sadly. It's a conversation between four pretty different folks, each Monday morning. Apparently a lot of people listen to the show here in the UK….
Alas, the fabled Atlantic has recently closed, so we've moved the London get together to another location. Floridita 100 Wardour St. London (Soho) 020 7314 4000 See you all there at 6.30-7ish tonight! First round on me…….
Floridita
100 Wardour St.
London (Soho)
020 7314 4000
See you all there at 6.30-7ish tonight! First round on me….
First we had readers in the Dublin airport, now it's the Munich airport, with reader Oliver Thylmann deep in the pure literary joy that is The Search (nice bubble chair, buddy). By the way, last week you guys pushed the book to #10 on the BusinessWeek best seller list….
By the way, last week you guys pushed the book to #10 on the BusinessWeek best seller list. THANK YOU!
Link (thanks, Fergus!)…
