Revenge Against Skeptical Media, Jeff Gordon Test Drive 2 (humor)

February 27, 2014 Dave Ohara

I wrote about Pepsi Max’s efforts to have fun and how viral it is.

Pepsi Max and Jeff Gordon released a new video today where Jeff Gordon has revenge against a skeptical media person who thought the test drive was a fake.

Here is the new video with 1,282,994 views in today. The video was released today and it has this kind of viewership.

Imagine if Google put a data center in Hangar One at Moffett Field (humor)

February 11, 2014 Dave Ohara

Mercury news covers a Google subsidiary taking over the maintenance of Hangar One at Moffett Field.

Google to restore Hangar One and operate runways at Moffett Field

By Brandon Bailey

bbailey@mercurynews.com

POSTED: 02/10/2014 07:42:48 PM PST | UPDATED: ABOUT 9 HOURS AGO

Hangar One at Moffett Field, 2011. (Mercury News)

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- After designing driverless cars, experimenting with robots and secretly building a fleet of barges, Google is taking on a new challenge: running an airfield in the heart of Silicon Valley and restoring one of the area's most iconic buildings, once used to house Navy blimps.

Imagine what kind of data center Google put in the hangar. The super structure looks like it could be the basis for a new rack system. :-)

Google's plans for the Moffett airfield are unclear, although the agreement could allow limited commercial development, or possibly a museum or education center at the hangar site. The company declined to comment, saying only that it wants to "preserve the heritage of Moffett Federal Airfield."

Funny beats Serious, @sochiproblems 282k vs @sochi2014 175k

February 7, 2014 Dave Ohara

Whenever someone asks me about creating a viral marketing campaign I tell them that funny things almost always beat serious things.

Here is one example Twitter handle @sochi2014 has 282K followers, started on Feb 4 (3 days ago) with 193 tweets.

Sochi Problems

@SochiProblems

I'm a mess, and not prepared for you! Our athletes live like Kings!

Sochi

TWEETS193

FOLLOWING27

FOLLOWERS282K

The @sochi2014 twitter handle has 175K followers, created long time ago, with 4,808 tweets

Sochi 2014 Verified account

@Sochi2014

sochi2014.com

TWEETS4,808

FOLLOWING547

FOLLOWERS175K

Here is the story of the guy who is behind @sochiproblems.

@SochiProblems mastermind revealed: student Alex Broad

Popular Twitter account by Centennial College journalism student captures myriad of problems at Sochi Games

By Nolan N. White | Posted: Feb 7 2014 2:49 pm

Take an unusually slow day in a Toronto college journalism school newsroom, and a journalism student with a love of sports. Now add controversy over the 2014 Sochi Olympic preparations, and some social media.

What you end up with is @SochiProblems. The Twitter account is the brainchild of Alexander (Alex) Broad, 20, a journalism major at Centennial College in Toronto, and a contributor to the program’s newspaper, TorontoObserver.ca.

COURTESY ALEXANDER BROAD

Alexander Broad, founder of @SochiProblems, digging out from Wednesday’s snowfall in Pickering, Ont.

Broad himself was unprepared to see his creation, launched Tuesday Feb. 4, as a Twitter account called@SochiProblems, become so popular. In only three days it has already attracted more than 240,000 followers ranging from ordinary Canadians, to well known personalities in the media, to athletes, current and retired.

Google's Urs Hölzle shares its cost for data center space - 15 years ago (Humor)

February 5, 2014 Dave Ohara

So many people are curious what Google pays for data center power and network. Google’s Urs Hoelzle shares its data center cost. It’s first bill for its data center 15 years ago. :-)

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Urs Hölzle
Shared publicly - Yesterday 12:31 PM

15 years ago (on Feb 1st, 1999) I first set foot in a Google datacenter. Well, not really -- in the Google cage in the Exodus datacenter in Santa Clara. Larry had led me there for a tour (I wasn't an employee yet) and it was my first time in any datacenter. And you couldn't really "set foot" in the first Google cage because it was tiny (7'x4', 2.5 sqm) and filled with about 30 PCs on shelves. a1 through a24 were the main servers to build and serve the index and c1 through c4 were the crawl machines.

Maybe 15 years from Urs will share what Google’s bills look like now. Can you imagine what Google’s data center infrastructure will look like 15 years from now?