6 posts and columns on chair

"Beyond the Search Box": The White Pleather Honeypot Smackdown

in News on February 1, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.” But things had certainly been cooking with gas when I walked into the meeting room at the University of San Francisco, including allegations of cheating, honeypot stings and a whole lot of insulting of the hosts. Schweeet!

To Kai-Fu Lee, Thanks for Everything

in News on September 9, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

Kai-Fu Lee’s uneventful departure from Google to start a Beijing incubator really belies the spectacle that attended the beginning of his tenure at the search giant. Lee’s train-hopping from Microsoft to Google back in 2005 touched off a five-month pitched battle marked by all manner of inanities and expletive-laden outbursts.
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Google Swaps Out China Bosses

in Media on September 4, 2009 at 3:49 am PT

Kai-Fu Lee, the head of Google’s China operations, is leaving the company this month to start his own company. Lee had a four-year run that began with a bang: Google poached him from Microsoft in 2005, which kicked off a legal battle between the two rivals.

Hey, Lucovsky…Don't Let This Chair Hit You on the Way Out…

in News on July 15, 2009 at 5:39 pm PT

The rumors are true. Mark Lucovsky, the engineer whose departure from Microsoft allegedly sent CEO Steve Ballmer into a paroxysm of profanity and chair-tossing, has left Google for a new position at VMware, the company has confirmed.
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Hey, Lucovsky…Don’t Let This Chair Hit You on the Way Out…

in News on July 15, 2009 at 5:39 pm PT

The rumors are true. Mark Lucovsky, the engineer whose departure from Microsoft allegedly sent CEO Steve Ballmer into a paroxysm of profanity and chair-tossing, has left Google for a new position at VMware, the company has confirmed.
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Study: Your Brain Isn’t Built for Twitter

in Media on April 14, 2009 at 9:55 am PT

Ever worry that the ever-increasing barrage of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and every other real-time, hey-look-what-I’m-doing and look-what-happened-just-this-very-second service may be outstripping your brain’s capacity to process them? You’re probably right, says a new study from a University of Southern California neuroscience group.
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