Inside the Secret Google Think Tank Meeting
The search giant invited executives from major networks, media companies, NASA, the top librarian from the U.S. Library of Congress and former Vice President Al Gore to a think thank summit at its Mountain View headquarters this week. The event was the second annual Google Partner Forum, according to TVWeek, and other attendees included CBS CEO Les Moonves, YouTube's Chad Hurley and Dell's Michael Dell. "It's less of a deal conference and it's a lot more of a collection of thoughts and ideas and absolutely the top leaders in digital content and distribution and technology," an executive who attended the event said. "It's sort of everyone I need to talk to is within 200 feet." |
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Comments (15)
. . . absolutely the top leaders in digital content and distribution and technology. . . Why is Al Gore there?
Posted by David Belfort | October 5, 2006 3:10 PM
Simple. Al Gore invented the internet.
Posted by Franklyn Bonfante | October 5, 2006 3:15 PM
The Internet. That's the series of tubes, right?
Posted by Steve Bryant | October 5, 2006 3:19 PM
Shouldn't that be 'Think Tank'??
Posted by Mikey | October 5, 2006 3:31 PM
What's a Think Thank?
Posted by Seany Boy | October 5, 2006 3:33 PM
Think Thanks: A corporatized form of industry navel gazing, involving parlor games, Venetian masks, and a healthy round of self-aggrandizement, usually in the form of ligament-strained back-patting.
Posted by Steve Bryant | October 5, 2006 3:39 PM
um, where's the rest of the article? doesn't this deserve a bit more reporting?
Posted by googler | October 5, 2006 3:51 PM
I'm just pointing you to the TVWeek article. That's how we roll here: a mix of original reporting and links to stuff 'round town.
Posted by Steve Bryant | October 5, 2006 3:59 PM
A quote from David Jacobsen "The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet 'would not be where it is today.'
Posted by MrSqueezles | October 5, 2006 4:57 PM
Al Gore has served as a Senior Adviser to Google, and he's the co-founder of Current TV, which features a daily segment called Google Current.
Posted by T Rhodes | October 5, 2006 5:02 PM
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