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Google Glasses was announced and demo'd yesterday.
It will be interesting to see if Google's Reality style demo changes product launches in the future.
Below is Sergey giving a walk through of some of the behind the scenes.
He has sun glass lens inserts in the Google Project Glasses. There are multiple antennas on different frequencies pointing at the blimp.
Sergey welcomes the jumpers landing on the roof.
Shot of camera crew following the action.
A few of us are having some laughs as the media says the Apple Reno data center is a billion dollar data center.
Here is one example from GigaOm.
Apple looking to build $1B Nevada data center by year’s end
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Apple’s North Carolina data center
Apple’s taking a billion dollars and heading to Reno, but it’s going to avoid the slots: it plans to invest the money in a data center and a separate shipping and receiving office.
I've been waiting for the public disclosure to get the numbers closer to what would not get us laughing. Las Vegas Sun has what makes sense.
Construction of the data center just east of Sparks is expected to generate a one-time $103 million economic impact, and Apple has said it will invest $1 billion in equipment for the storage center.
The Las Vegas Sun provides details on the tax incentives passed.
Here’s how it will work: The state can waive all but 2 percent of the sales tax rate for the server equipment Apple purchases for the data center. But by opening a second location in a special tourism improvement district in downtown Reno — an office meant simply to receive shipment of those servers — Apple is eligible to be reimbursed 75 percent of the 2 percent sales tax it still owes.
That piece of the deal is up for City Council approval today.
After all of its abatements and reimbursements, Apple would pay only 0.5 percent sales tax — instead of 7.5 percent — on the $1 billion in server equipment it’s expected to buy over the next 10 years.
Personal income from the local construction is estimated to be $15 million.
An economic impact analysis — named “Project Jonathan” after the medium-sized sweet apple to hide the company’s identity — estimates it will generate 329 direct and indirect jobs for the community with a total personal income of $15 million.
When you see all these facts, you can see why a $1B data center is a hype to get people to think it is a big deal.
This is a $100 million data center with 0.5% tax rate on $1B of IT equipment purchased over 10 years. Would you be excited by the $5 mil in sales tax collected over 10 years from Apple's presence? Apple got a great deal.
Google is adding more and more data center capacity. What are they doing besides search, Youtube, and GMail.
Check out this video for a future Google Cloud Service: Project Glasses.
Here are more details if you would like to read instead of watch.
Google wants developers to take a leap with Project Glass
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Sergey Brin’s extreme sports demonstration of Project Glass at Google I/O will likely go down in history as one of the most daring tech conference stunts of all time: The Google co-founder stormed on stage Wednesday, interrupting the regular keynote to show off Google’s wearable computing project by joining a live Hangout session with a bunch of skydivers, who proceeded to jump out of a plane.
Isn't it funny how many company's answer to innovation is to make it an objective and goal of the company. IBM has even created an event called Innovate.
An entertaining post on innovation is by Netflix's Adrian Cockcroft where he uses Netflix streaming media shows as slides.
How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation
#defrag 2011 presentation script.
I'm the cloud architect for Netflix, but rather than tell you about why we moved Netflix to a cloud architecture or how we built our cloud architecture, I'm going to tell you what we do differently at Netflix to create a culture that supports innovation.
What is it that lets us get things done very quickly. Sometimes a bit too qwikly…. but how did we keep making big strategic moves, from DVD to streaming, from Datacenter to Public Cloud, from USA only to International, all in very short timescales with a fairly small team of engineers.
My presentation slides are just box-shots of movies and TV shows that are available on Netflix streaming. This script is based on the notes I made to figure out what I was going to say for each box shot. If some of you see a show you didn't know we had and want to watch that would make me happy, you can click on the box shot to visit that movie at Netflix, they were all available for streaming in the USA at the time of writing.
The post is long, so let me help you to the part I found useful.
What I found out over the next few years is that the culture is what enables innovation, so that Netflix can get things done quickly that other companies are too scared or too slow to try. The rest of this talk is about the key things that we do differently at Netflix.
And Andrian's warns this guidance is most likely not useful for a large established company.
Before I get into them I want to warn you that even with a roadmap and a guide, you probably won't be able to follow this path if you are in a large established company. Your existing culture won't let you. However if you are creating a new company from scratch, I hope you can join me in what I hope is the future of cool places to work.
Here's the key insight. It's the things you don't do that make the difference. You don't add innovation to a company culture, you get out of its way.
This year was my second time attending GigaOm Structure. There were some very famiiar faces I see at GigaOm Structure - Rich Miller from DCK, Kevin Timmons from Cyrus One, and Frank Frankovsky from Facebook are a few I had a chance to talk to.
One of the things that struck me in the presentations is how much data centers are discussed. Then, it hit me that the folks data center folks who attend are part of the thought leaders. Amazon Web Services Werner Vogel has spoke for the full 5 years of Structure.
Here are some of the companies that have booths. There are many more that I didn't take pictures of.
Dell with DCS servers, modular data centers, and cloud Boomi.
Verizon/Terramark with a bit of IBM in the background.
Intel is in force with cloud solutions.
Equinix and Seamicro is the background.
Calxeda and Duport Fabros
