Interesting post. I came across this blog by accident, but it was a good accident. I have now bookmarked your blog for future use. Best wishes. Sofia Vergara….

I’ll get back to my Saturday morning. Regards.

P.S. to HoHoHum: Amen. I feel your pain.

I understand. Huntington Beach. Is there an abbreviation for that? “A lawyer from LA” is just so rich though. Huntington Beach, well, is a real place. So I can’t use that. I’ll only use LA if I am really bent outta shape.

Sorry for hijacking your comments. I’ll get my own blog or something.
Cheers.

But I despise hypocrisy above all else. Don’t pretend that you’re morally superior and then turn around and sell your own Grandmother to the Chinese for a nickel. And don’t bleat about inconvenient intellectual property laws as you steal the world’s copyrights yet keep your own IP locked inside a bank vault.

If you’re going to screw me at least have the dignity to be honest about it.

All kidding aside, my views regarding big corporations are far more cynical as in late-stage capitalism is a testiment as to how far greed, short-term planning, self-interest and fear of death can go. But life and its appetites crawls on…

Here are a few IMHO thoughts on Google ‘destroying the Valley’ (btw this most definitely *not* Google-bashing, merely my observations on the impact on business as it stands today with the Google fusion bomb blowing up under our feet.):

1. It used to be more or less us (The Valley) against them (Redmond). Now it’s us (we, the few, the proud, the ‘indies’) against 80% of Mountain View and on down the 101 –thinking of the planned Moffet Google/NASA matrix battery farm, oh I mean Googleplex.

2. They have sucked the valley braintrust dry of good backend engineers and anyone who can spell semantic or bayesian. (Oops I better be careful.)

3. They have distorted the local salary and stock-option picture, just as AOLscape and Yahoo! did back in the late 90’s.

4. The first words out of anyone’s mouth around here when you present a new idea or discuss any reasonable technological/communication/yadda innovation is “Well what if Google decided to do this?” or “Isn’t this a feature of Google?” …as if Google stands for the G-D web/internet or brainwaves of life itself. Many folks are no longer designing/building/coding for people or the web - they are coding in the Google vortex and how all things relate to it. I miss the promise of the net before there were 8000 kiloton gorillas trampling about.

5. I am tired of one entity having such big ambitions. To organize and make accessible all the world information isn’t the job of one company, a corporation registered in Delaware, U.S.A. It’s is the job of many smaller components - from individuals and cities to companies and international organizations.

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BTW Arrington still shouldn’t have pulled a turd out of a crawler’s cache somewhere and cried wolf. It’s obvious he has an anti-Google agenda. You aren’t Arrington are you hohoHummer? In any event, I gave you five points to explore .. I am sure the collective here can come up with more legitimate ones. Most listed above by others were blind bashing and some were just made up (re stock options, etc.)

How many times are you going to repeat what is essentially the same rant over and over and over again in numerous threads? Yeah, we all know that you think that Arrington is the anti-christ and anyone who disagrees with you is a stupid suckup.

If you hate tech crunch that much, there’s a simple solution — don’t read it.

These days (post-acquisition) our wiki is down more than it is up, which has a very big impact on our business. We have repeatedly emailed Jotspot support to no avail. Google acquired you in order to serve smaller customers than us - so you left us out to dry. We have certainly learned *our* lesson.

A large company buys a small company. And the small company’s friends and supporters feel hurt.

So what?

Deal with it friends or get out of the business.

The good news is these people don’t matter. And that is as it should be.