Google is breaking eco system in silicon valley

Reading the post about Google DNS service, it seems it’s breaking the eco system in silicon valley.

I used to believe silicon valley has good eco system for start-ups, that is, start-up companies try all sort of new ideas, and once proved working, they can go IPO or get acquired by a big company, so investors can get return, as well as founders get financial benifit.

Story is different in China, small companies try all new ideas, and once proved working, big companies become copycat, using their massive audience base kill the start-ups.

Pity I’m seeing Google is following the second route now.

Why not google?

A friend mentioned to me Google is hiring and lots of Yahoo!s are jumping off the sinking ship and heading to google, so I should try.

Well, maybe … but no, there are some difficulties I need to overcome before I can be google:

• I can hardly believe I can pass any interviews there, thinking of they like talking about algorithms so much.
• I’m less confident on my educational background, all that I heard of is they prefer master/PhD from famous universities and I have nothing to do with these two
• I believe their culture is for youth, who can live in campus for days or weeks without leaving, while I want to have my family life
• I will be absolutely abnormal if I still don’t have lunch even if the company provides free lunch

So the conclusion is that I will stay here for some time, even I move on in the future, google can hardly be my destination.

Pity to google – I have some friends in China are really good in this area, but none of them works for google, could be because of any reasons above .

Android goes to netbook

It was said Acer is shipping netbook with Google’s Android now.

I’m happy to see Google steps into the area that Intel and Microsoft are competing, and maybe Nokia. I will be more happy to see Google gets defeated

Google App Engine

Boss asked me check out Google’s App Engine, and said that’s cool and could be the direction that we are going to move to, though we may only serve internal customers.

I’m still playing with it – I’m not familiar with Python no Java, and I don’t like them too much, but I can try.

Is grid/cloud the right thing to go? Doubt, but since there are so many experts take it seriously as future, let’s assume it is the direction. It may like “open system”, or “client servr”, or “3-tiers achitect”, or “go web”, or “virtualization” – all these words used to be fancy or cool, but later on they just become our daily life in development.