Virtuality

Nice talk by Cuong Do about the history of developing a scalable architecture at Youtube.com. Proves again that you can do a lot with a few good men ™ and python.

A talk by Googler Jeff Dean on various Google technologies (incl. some history) used in their scalable infrastructure. For more, search for “Seattle conference on scalability” on video.google.com.
Also has some amazing “discoveries”, like people searching for “full moon” every 28 days…

Google coach Marc Lesser talks about accomplishing more by doing less. Seems to be a good motto Some Zen-like stuff, which may help you getting more ideas and support innovation.

Very nice talk by Google CIO Douglas Merrill about innovation at Google. They really know their stuff. Video quality not too good though.

Created a page with an overview of books (novels) I am collecting. That makes it easier to remember which books already have and which I can buy.