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BusinessWeek scrapes Techmeme for its latest list
Loic Le Meur! Gabe Rivera! Joi Ito! Don't feel bad if you've never heard of them. BusinessWeek.com's latest 25 Most Influential People on the Web is a mashup of billionaire powerbrokers with a randomized handful of those folks you run into at that same little tech conference that happens under a different name every month. I'm guessing they left out TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to create buzz. If you don't want to click through 27 pageviews on BusinessWeek's site, here's the entire list in alphabetical order: More »
Google founder comes out for gay marriage
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has announced that the company is officially opposing Proposition 8, a California ballot proposition that would make same-sex marriages illegal. The reason? Gayglers: "It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8." But Sergey, you still haven't spoken out for the robots. [Official Google Blog]
the way we were
Ten years on, Google cofounders' homepages frozen in time
Say what you will about Hubert "Third Google Founder" Chang, at least he dropped some links to the old homepages of Sergey Brin and Larry Page back when the pair were teaching Computer Science 349 at Stanford, "Data Mining, Search, and the World Wide Web." What's there? More »
Googletards
Larry, Sergey, and Hubert? NYU grad claims he invented Google
Google's tenth anniversary seems to have tweaked Hubert Chang into posting this video. He claims to have co-invented Google's PageRank formula, business model and more along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1997. But Chang says he chose to complete his Ph.D. at New York University instead of dropping out to found a startup. He also claims to have passed on a chance to put his name on a conference paper — again to remain focused on his Ph.D. thesis. By the time Chang got his sheepskin in 2002, he says, Page and Brin didn't respond to his enquiries to join the company. After the jump, a second, more produced video from Chang in which he gives his version of the Google creation myth. More »
clips
Brin and Page show up late, wing it at Googlephone launch
T-Mobile today launched the G1, the first phone loaded with Google's mobile operating system, Android. (Just don't call it a "Googlephone"!) Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page showed up late to the press conference and Brin began his speech with an excuse: "We had to rush here a little bit today from the Google Transit launch, and, uh, you know with all the streets being shut down and all, I don't think wheels were the best way to go." The pair winged it from there on. More »
commentards
Sergey Brin hates commenters even more than we do
Don't believe the hype that Google founder Sergey Brin is seeking to "open source" research on Parkinson's. Should you try to contribute, the very first thing you'll find is that Brin has disabled comments on his blog. "While I would like to receive and post many insightful comments," he writes in a disclaimer above the comment box, "realistically I am unlikely to be able to read through all of them and may accept very few or none at all." So far he's accepted none at all. Look, Sergey, if you're serious about curing Parkinson's, talk to the Accelerated Cure Project for multiple sclerosis. It's the same idea: Supersmart engineer/entrepreneur is diagnosed with disease, decides to put his skills to work rather than wait around for a miracle. Everyone else, feel free to post your comments here.
health
Curing Parkinson's may be Sergey Brin's latest open source project
In his first post to his new blog, Google founder Sergey Brin wrote that his genetic makeup includes a mutation called LRRK2, which means he has an increased chance of contracting Parkinson's. “Why would he disclose that?” medical experts asked the New York Times's Miguel Helft when he sought comment. Helft's theory — based on fellow Times journalist Allen Salkin's recent interview with the Google founder — is that Brin wants to turn the problem of solving his own DNA riddles into an open source project: More »
death of print
Google cofounders' wealth dwarfs newspaper business
According to Wall Street estimates, the entire American newspaper business is worth $20 billion and sinking fast — and that includes the non-newspaper business like test prep, television and radio holdings. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's cofounders, are worth nearly $16 billion each according to Forbes (though that number has been shrinking of late as well). No wonder fishwrap publishers hate Google so much. [reDesign] (Photo by Joi Ito)
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