30 posts and columns on San Jose Mercury News
Xoogler Doug Edwards Talks About New Book on His Time at the Search Borg (Video)
“I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59” is a pretty fair rendition of what it’s like to be strapped to a rocket ship of a start-up.Voices
Silicon Valley Commercial Office Vacancy Rate Nearly 20 Percent–And Rising
Anyone need 44 million square feet of office space? As the San Jose Mercury News reports, nearly 20 percent of Silicon Valley’s commercial office buildings stood empty at the end of 2009–the worse vacancy rate in at least 15 years. And the situation is expected to get worse in 2010.NoTube: Supreme Court Blocks YouTube From California’s Prop 8 Trial
Here’s a historic first you won’t be seeing today: Coverage of a federal trial via YouTube. The Supreme Court has put a halt, at least temporarily, on plans let Google’s video site stream coverage of the “Proposition 8” trial, which kicked off today in a San Francisco courtroom.Plastic Logic (Finally) Shows Off The Que, Its (Very Expensive) Kindle Competitor
After promising to deliver its take on Amazon’s Kindle for a couple of years, Plastic Logic is finally delivering: Here comes the Que, which the company promises is “more than an eReader.” It had better be: The first two versions of the gadget will cost $649 and $799.Voices