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The cure for the common hangover
AUSTIN, TX — I almost didn't sleep last night. At 4 a.m., after posting party reports for
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Google designer: Company logo "ugly, childish"
"I think the Google logo is childish and ugly," Jeff Veen just said at a SXSW panel. Many designers share Veen's opinion. It's notable only because Veen is in charge of user-interface design at Google. Are we going to see a revamp of the logo? Unlikely, if only because there's so many billions of dollars of brand value attached to the current ugly, childish version.
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Get things done: hijack your meetings
It's been almost half a year since Google bought the stat service Measure Map and hired its creator Jeffrey Veen. Looks like he's taken charge at his new home, thus ruining all our planned "It's not easy being Veen" jokes. In a chat with design firm 37signals, he shares his emergency meeting strategy. More »
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Geek out: Valleywag's first SloshCon is a sozzled success
Valleywag's first SloshCon at the House of Shields was so successful that my hangover's having baby hangovers. Remember the live-audience interviews and speeches on the game plan? Scrapped. We didn't want to ruin the vibe (half the crowd had arrived in the first 20 minutes), so we all kept on drinking and bullshitting one-on-one. (Top photo by Jeremiah Owyang) More »
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Beware the Valentine-tie-in press release. The Register gets cute about the crap that companies send the press. [The Register]
New Internet — all the stuff that wasn't wrong with Old Internet. [Techdirt]
Larry Ellison will eat anything. The latest Oracle acquisition is another open source firm. [CNet]
Oh, that's rich. "I failed my Google exam. Ergo, Google will die." [Craigslist]
Jeff Veen's letter to early Measure Map users: "You can expect great things from this acquisition." Sure, like with Blogger and Dodgeball. [Yugatech]
Remainders: Information wants to be Larry's
Beware the Valentine-tie-in press release. The Register gets cute about the crap that companies send the press. [The Register]New Internet — all the stuff that wasn't wrong with Old Internet. [Techdirt]
Larry Ellison will eat anything. The latest Oracle acquisition is another open source firm. [CNet]
Oh, that's rich. "I failed my Google exam. Ergo, Google will die." [Craigslist]
Jeff Veen's letter to early Measure Map users: "You can expect great things from this acquisition." Sure, like with Blogger and Dodgeball. [Yugatech]
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