David, thanks for the note about the WSJ article as well. As I noted in a previous post, if I were them I’d also be unloading shares as fast as possible ;)

Sorry, as a former law student, this is a pet peeve of mine. The 1st am. protects you against *governmental* abridgement of your speech. It does not govern non-disclosure agreements between corporations and private citizens.

For instance, if I told you about all the cool things that Mark and I are working on here at Plaxo, my boss would kill me. Okay, beyond that, I’d have no “free speech rights” that’d protect me. In exchange for getting moolah and lots of yummy free food at Plaxo (consideration), I have agreed to keep my trap shut regarding proprietary information.

Now, Plaxo wouldn’t have the right to forbid me to talk about my favorite chocolate (Hershey sucks!) or music (Coldplay sucks!), but anyway, you get my drift :)

speaking of which, saw an pseudo-obvious article in WSJ on their stock offering. the basic gist: brin and page are going to milk the masses and their optimism. if people want to believe that google will grow at 35% per year until our grandchildren are around, why shouldn’t they profit off of it?

the article explicitly stated that this was in no way a negative move on behalf of google but more so on the people who continue to pour money into their stock at 285+

If you read back through my posts without projecting your assumptions upon my writing, you’ll realize that I’m just writing my observations and opinions on news in the industry. If it comes off as an insult, I’m sorry; it’s just my sense of humor. I have respect for many people at Yahoo!, MSN, Amazon, and Google - not to mention that many of my friends work at these companies.

And of course, I’m not sure why you would think I’m “sad and desperate”… I have a much better job now than I had at Google.

Anyways, you’re free to unsubscribe or never visit my blog again. Don’t worry, you won’t hurt my feelings :) I’m just putting my thoughts out there; I expect some people will agree and others will disagree - hopefully we’ll have a conversation about it either way.

Mark, we know you got fired from Google. Life goes on. Every time you bring up Google, you subtly try to insult them. The thing is, using smiley faces doesn’t make it any less apparent. It just looks sad and desperate.

Google’s got some cool stuff. And, of course, some of it is not so cool. But your one-sided opinions are getting old. Please give it a rest.

what I find interesting and perhaps you can shed more light on this is how google views its 2-5 year relationship with microsoft… do they want to coexist with msft or do they plan to eventually provide applications for all users’ needs on the desktop (office apps too?). perhaps a gbrowser that can download components to dynamically transform itself from browser->office app->search tool->chat program.

http://share.skype.com/