AlexK - 8:37 pm on Feb 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

Some extracts from his blog [99zeros.blogspot.com]:

which leads me to one of google's most valuable competitive advantages: the ability to get features out the door extremely quickly.

...including employees, of course.

contrast that to google, ... there's no remorse about throwing away dead code

..or employees.

i think part of the beauty of the blogging movement is that for the first time, people worldwide are empowered to voice their opinion.

i goofed and put some stuff up on my blog that's not supposed to be there. nothing serious ... google was pretty cool about all this.

What is very clear is that Mark Jen believed Google's hype - he really did think that he was working for a `new' company. Sadly, he has now discovered that, when it comes down to the nitty gritty, Google is just part of the same old stuff. It's a damn shame.