UPS Trucks Never Turn Left. Good Engineering or Viral Marketing?

UPS Trucks Never Turn Left. Good Engineering or Viral Marketing?

If you had a company, how would you save time and money? Maybe you can layoff some employees or use cheaper plastic in your products. Or you can have less meetings and actually focus on development. But would you tell your employees: “NEVER turn LEFT?” That is exactly what UPS’s Senior VP Bob Stoffel revealed to Fortune. He says that the best way to save money and time for the… Read More →

Google Street View: A Paparazzi Of Random Things And Kids With Guns

Google Street View: A Paparazzi Of Random Things And Kids With Guns

Google Street View is not just used by people to pretend they are flying around the world, or to see images of buildings and streets. Or to look at images of your own house to see the picture of your cat by the living room window doing “icanhascheezburger” stuff. Google Street View also has some of the most amazing and stunning images of really random things you don’t get to… Read More →

Microsoft Celebrates Anniversaries With M&M’s

Microsoft Celebrates Anniversaries With M&M’s

How do you celebrate your employment anniversary? Do you even celebrate it? Probably your boss doesn’t even know the date or even how many years you have been working for them. I know, it is sad. But it is a reality in today’s corporate America unless you work for one of those cool companies such as Adobe, Google, blip.tv, Facebook, or Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft is still cool… and rich. Softies (how Microsoft… Read More →

“The Social Network” Is Not The Only Movie Based On Successful Geeks

“The Social Network” Is Not The Only Movie Based On Successful Geeks

The Social Network is one of the best movies out there based on the life of a geek. It tells the story of how Facebook was started and the many problems the founders had, including the famous Winklevoss’s lawsuit. The film won 3 Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. Also it won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011,… Read More →

Mark Zuckerberg Is NOT The Youngest Billionaire

Mark Zuckerberg Is NOT The Youngest Billionaire

Mark Zuckerberg: another Harvard dropout and the creator, founder, and CEO of everybody’s favorite social networking site Facebook.com, is not the youngest billionaire as many people once believed and claimed. Although he is certainly a billionaire and a really young one, worth $13.5 billion dollars with just 26 years of age. The title for the “Youngest Billionaire” goes to Facebook’s co-founder and once Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate Dustin Moskovitz. If you have seem the movie… Read More →

Meet Stan, Google’s Dinosaur

Meet Stan, Google’s Dinosaur

For those of you who didn’t know, including me, Google has a real dinosaur in their backyard at the Googleplex. What happened to those day when people just wanted a dog or cat? smh. The Googleplex surely have some amazing sights such as pink flamingos, enormous Android-themed models, a large LEGO man, and a scale replica of the SpaceShipOne. But a dinosaur!? and the most dangerous one! The biggest predator!… Read More →

What is Silicon Valley? And an “Ultimate Geek Tour”

What is Silicon Valley? And an “Ultimate Geek Tour”

Don’t know what Silicon Valley is? Let me give you a quick-easy-to-understand-for-non-geek description: Silicon Valley (which is just a nickname coined by Ralph Vaerst and not an actual city or town) is a region located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area where a bunch of high-tech companies are located or started. For a tour of Silicon Vally by Robert Scoble click here. Quick bullet points: Many of… Read More →