I’m surprised the blogosphere is making so much of this. As some of you know, in my “past life&# I served on many a technical committee defining technical standards (for anyone who cares, NCITS T11.5 In the age of the Internet, that’s a lifetime. standards are set by merit, not by posturing and hype; 2. All Rights Reserved MORE >>

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. Overture (Goto.com). MORE >>

recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is  here and the PowerPoint presentation is  here on DocStoc ). ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 They have more page views than even Google. MORE >>

Caltech engineering grad, he started Idealab in 1996 with the aim of finding and testing new ideas, then turning the best ones into companies that take up residence. Pasadena Magazine August 2012  (click here for the original article). Written by Maria Russo. Not only will no one think you’re crazy, you’ll learn something new.”. Twitter. MORE >>

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Caltech. And for me. MORE >>