From Larry Page’s 2006 CES Keynote comes the Google Pack Fanny Pack. Get it – it’s literally a pack. And it promotes Google Pack.
Some might insist this is a shoulder bag or maybe even a “rucksack.” Don’t kid yourself, it’s a fanny pack. You wear this and you might as well strap on the sandals and socks too.
I believe it came stuffed with a small wooden puzzle and maybe some other swag.
Nerd Alert – I’m totally going to the WonderCon Comic Book convention in San Francisco the first weekend in March. Why? To see people dress up like superheroes of course.
Here’s Batman from when I went in 2005.
Radar has an article on the YouTube stars who didn’t aim to become popular – you know, like StarWars Kid and Afroninja.
When “Afroninja” was posted, it was viewed 80 million times—placing it roughly on par with the final episode of Cheers in terms of audience.
While some of my garments have stories, others tell no tales. These two shirts were just random Google logo t’s that came to me via the T-Shirt cabinet — a magical place on campus periodically filled with random gear for Googlers. This mechanism has been the discussion of many email threads about proper etiquette and efficiency for optimal t-shirt distribution.
Every summer Google has a Family Picnic — it’s like an outdoor version of our Holiday Party except kid friendly – lots of activities, food, etc.
In 2004 the annual picnic was coincidentally just after our IPO which lead some reporters to believe it was a celebration tied to the event. Not true — to most of us the IPO was a pretty cool day, but not something to celebrate. We just wanted to get back to work — I mean there were so many news crews around, more than I’d ever seen without the chalk outline of a crime scene.
Oh yeah, and this hat – they gave out hats at the picnic 🙂
When EA acquired SingShot i posted about their new Sims plans for an online casual world. Now, Marketing Week reports similar.
I’ve met Bing Gordon, EA Founder and creative visionary, a few times. He had a great statement about the future prospects of virtual environments (paraphrasing): “Online worlds will become part of every teenager’s life because of the ability to try on different personas.”
Think that’s a market they’re interested in? Yup.
This particular one says “talent scout” on the back, simultaneously thanking me for referring many job applicants to google and also making the shirt embarrassingly unwearable.
We famously get hundreds of thousands of resumes a month but still we’re hungry for new recruits. As a product manager helping to grow the team is a high priority – # interviews and # referrals are factored into our performance scores. There’s also a small monetary incentive if your referral gets hired but given the rejection rate i think this bonus is likely 1/10th of what it actually should be. I’ve gotten two people hired with well over 50 referrals.
So if you want to work here just check out our Jobs page and let me know.
Not quite “Barack Osama” but come on people, get your facts right (via NYTimes):
A review of the concert film ”Fade to Black” in Weekend yesterday misidentified a star appearing in the film with the rapper Jay-Z. She was Foxy Brown, not Lil’ Kim. Because of an editing error, a picture caption misidentified the singer dressed all in white. He was R. Kelly, not Jay-Z.
Spent an hour today with will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas and came away very impressed. Will’s a bit of a geek – he loves the technology, aiming it at empowering artists and youth. And when a guy with a cool moniker like will.i.am says the “hunter walk” is a very strong name, well, i just gotta thanks my parents for that.