lunes, 23 de mayo de 2011
viernes, 21 de enero de 2011
Google turns a new Page
IT HAS been all change at the top of two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent tech giants this week. First Apple revealed that Steve Jobs, its boss, was stepping away from day-to-day management responsibilities at the company to focus on an unspecified health problem. Then on January 20th Google said that Eric Schmidt, the firm’s chief executive, would hand over that role in April to Larry Page, one of the firm’s two co-founders. Mr Schmidt will become executive chairman, focusing on areas such as acquisitions and government relations, while remaining an advisor to Mr Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s other co-founder, who is going to concentrate on certain strategic projects. (Messrs Schmidt, Page and Brin, from left to right, are pictured above with one of their experimental self-driving cars).
The change makes sense, though arguably it should have happened sooner. As Google has grown from a start-up into a global powerhouse with 24,000 employees, some of its original entrepreneurial spirit has been crushed by a burgeoning bureaucracy. Several prominent Xooglers, as former employees of the company are known, have complained that it has become difficult to get things done at the firm. And rivals such as Twitter and Facebook have exploited this growing sense of frustration by pinching talented executives from Google’s ranks.
The current set-up at the top of the firm is partly to blame for this state of affairs. Mr Schmidt, a former head of Novell and chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems, was initially appointed in 2001 to provide some experienced leadership at a company whose co-founders were inexperienced. And under his guidance, Google blossomed. But now Mr Page is clearly ready and eager to run the show again. (He had stepped down as CEO when Mr Schmidt arrived.) Moreover, the triumvirate has shown its limits. Mr Schmidt has been careful to consult Google’s co-founders on all important issues. That is why the unconventional arrangement has lasted so long. But this consensus-style approach to decision-making has become a bottleneck that the company can ill-afford at a time when it is facing several significant challenges.
One of these is the rise of Facebook, which is determined to displace Google as the most popular gateway to the internet. Another is the need to develop sizeable new sources of revenue to supplement those it derives from its search business. Google is also being scrutinised closely by the European Commission, America’s Department of Justice and several other bodies on anti-trust matters and could also be hurt by moves to tighten regulations that govern online privacy.
The planned changes in Google’s leadership should better equip it to handle all of these issues. Freed from what Mr Schmidt jokingly referred to in a tweet as his “adult supervision”, Mr Page will have the authority to take swift decisions on product matters without the need for a three-way consultation. Meanwhile Mr Schmidt can concentrate on helping Google to negotiate the regulatory minefield it faces and on identifying more juicy acquisition targets for the company, which recently launched an unsuccessful $6 billion bid for Groupon, a firm that offers group discounts to online buyers.
Google certainly has no shortage of financial firepower. On the same day that it announced its senior management changes, the firm revealed it had $35 billion of cash in its coffers at the end of 2010. It also unveiled an impressive set of fourth-quarter results, with revenue hitting some $8.4 billion, a 26% increase over the same period in its previous fiscal year. It is now up to Mr Page to show that he has what it takes to keep the search giant firing on all cylinders.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/01/googles_management_shuffle&fsrc=nwl
miércoles, 23 de junio de 2010
Google calendar y celulares en colombia
Ahora con el calendario de google lo puedo programar para que me envíe mensajes al celular cada que tengo una cita. como siempre programo la hora en la que tengo y la hora en la que deseo que me recuerde...
Lo mejor de todo, es gratis!!! si señores, como lo sé, facil, no tengo ni un peso en el celular... jajajaja y me llego el mensaje.
Hasta el maravilloso celular con linternita pued entrar en la moda.
Como se hace el truco...
Primero debes entrar al calendario de google y darle en configuración.
Allí vas a la configuración del mobil y pones que sos de Colombia y llenas la información. posteriormente te llega un codigo y lo escribes abajo...
Ahora si, ya no necesito un pelleberry, pero si alguien me lo quiere regalar será bienvenido.
viernes, 22 de enero de 2010
Herramientas que Google usa internamente
http://www.adseok.com/google/herramientas-que-google-usa-internamente/
Herramientas que Google usa internamente
18 March 2008
A través de un seminario en KMWorld Magazine, Google ofreció detalles muy interesante sobre cómo gestionan internamente los proyectos y la comunicación dentro de la empresa. Un recién llegado a Google explicó en su primera semana de trabajo qué herramientas utilizaban (traduzco más o menos el artículo de Blogoscoped):
Google Projects
Google Projects parece ser el panel de control de todo tipo de tareas de Google. Según lo que se puede ver en la imagen, las pestañas muestran “My PDB (PDB significa project database y que enlaza con otro proyecto llamado “Product Snippets”),” “Projects,” “Charters,” “Staffing Requests,” and “Reports.”
Google Ideas
Parece ser una especie de foro donde proponer nuevas ideas donde el resto puede criticarlas y valorarlas y medir el nivel de ruido que provocan.
Google Caribou
Caribou parece ser la forma de referirse a las últimas versiones de Gmail por parte de los desarrolladores. En la foto, Gmail “Alfa”.
Moma Intranet and Search
La página de inicio de la intranet de Google www.corp.google.com ofrece todo tipo de cajas personalizables, como información para los empleados, comidas, y una indicación a Google Tech Stop, el soporte interno de Google.
Google Expert Search
Con dirección en https://expert/, los empleados pueden encontrar ayuda en los compañeros que trabajan en productos similares.
A Newer Google Docs
Un ejemplo de uso interno de sus propios productos. En este caso, una versión más avanzada de Google Docs.
También se puede encontrar por la red este tipo de documentos en formato PDF para descargar o en interesantes presentaciones, como estas dos: