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...company founded and still largely run by a bunch of engineers, Google apparently knows a lot about human nature. Just as they did with Gmail, the Googlers have made their newest product invitation-only. You can't just use Google Wave; you have to be chosen. It's like Willy Wonka and the golden ticket. By the time I finally got my Wave invitation, I actually felt grateful. In some part of my brain, I really believed that instead of using a browser-based communications app, I was attending a totally excellent party...
...whom it has unleashed in an apparently only minimally managed orgy of R&D. As a result, it's been spinning out cult hits and noble failures at a furious rate: Orkut (big in Brazil!), Picasa, Knol, Docs, SketchUp, OpenSocial, Chrome and Android. But it hasn't produced a lot of homegrown category killers. It's not that Google's products aren't innovative. They're just not friendly enough or sexy enough, or they're replacements for something that wasn't particularly broken in the first place. (Read "Testing Google's 'Drunk E-Mail' Protector...
...lot of work to do if it wants applause in 2016. True, athletes will compete in such iconic venues as the Maracană soccer stadium--the largest in South America--while rowers and triathletes will ply Rio's blue waters beneath the outstretched arms of the titanic Christ the Redeemer statue. But many of the venues for the 2016 Games--including the Joăo Havelange Olympic Stadium, where track-and-field events will take place--don't meet IOC standards or will require extensive renovations. Nearly 20 will need to be built from scratch. Cariocas, as Rio's residents are called...
...We’re feeling a lot more comfortable the way that we are [playing], and we’re attacking a lot better,” Nichols said. “I think that it was about finding the right combination of players and just sort of finding that mentality that we need to win, and I think that the Ivy League [schedule] definitely brought...
...There were] very tough conditions this weekend, because it was freezing, and today the sleet made the racing pretty challenging,” Powers said. “The wind shifts direction very often, so a lot of this weekend was working on focusing on predicting how the wind would shift...