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<title><![CDATA[Google Chrome gets new developer hierarchy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Google)In its first two years, Chrome development took a more collaborative approach than most Google projects, but now its leaders have decided on more sharply defined leadership roles to better manage the browser's growth.Instead of notifying a &quot;watchlist&quot; of programmers who are affected by a particular change to the code, a programmer on an &quot;owners&quot; list must now approve the change, high-ranking Chrome engineer Ben Goodger announced yesterday on the developers' mailing list for the open-source Chromium project that underlies Chrome. Goodger wrote:Much of Chromium's practices are modeled on Google's own internal engineering practices. OWNERS files were one area where we explicitly diverged. Why In the past I had been concerned about the social effects of OWNERS files--I had been concerned about territoriality which can sometimes creep in any collaborative project. We had encouraged the development of &quot;alternative&quot; means of change notification, and so we have WATCHLISTS. WATCHLISTS proved insufficient for many of us, however. Darin [Fisher, another high-ranking Chrome leader] and I discussed the issue, and talking with other senior engineers decided that OWNERS files seemed like a more comprehensive answer.The basic problem, he said, is quality control. &quot;Owners files provide a means for people to find engineers experienced in developing specific areas for code reviews. They are designed to help ensure changes don't fall through the cracks and get appropriate scrutiny,&quot; he said.Chrome has open-source foundations, including contributions from programmers outside Google. But as with Linux, Android, MySQL, and many other open-source projects, the approach doesn't mean it's a hobby run by volunteers. The move to the owners system, though, reflects another step toward professional management of the software.Goodger laid out his case this way:In the more than two years since the Chromium project started, the number of people contributing has grown immensely. With this expansion has come many challenges, the most important of which is ensuring the continuity of our product and development principles. As our project has grown in size and scope, the code-base has begun to show signs of fatigue...I speak for a number of leads on the team when I say that we've had a hard time keeping up with the pace of change. As we expand the scope of Chrome in many different directions, it's critical that we consider even more carefully the design of the core code. As we do this it is important to rely on the most experienced engineers in each area. He laid out the full details of the new code governance in a document describing Chromium's new owners system. Among its strictures:Only the people who are actively investing energy in the improvement of a directory should be listed as OWNERS. OWNERS are expected to have demonstrated excellent judgment, teamwork and ability to uphold Chrome development principles. They must understand the development process. Additionally, for someone to be listed as an OWNER of a directory they must be approved by the other OWNERS of the affected directory.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition goes 3D]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition-goes-3d</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Back in my day, we had only two Ds, and we were happy to have those!(Credit:Wikipedia)Look, I like 3D technology as much as the next guy, at least when it's used properly. And I also like pictures of supermodels in bikinis. But I'm not sure if I'm into the idea of putting those two things together. That might be a little much for an innocent guy like me.But Sports Illustrated doesn't feel the same way at all, it seems, as it plans to sell (and rent) special 3D video content that ties in with its annual swimsuit issue.  The content will be available to customers who have new Sony Bravia HDTVs that are 3D-capable, and aPS3 or qualified Blu-ray player running Qriocity's rental service. An interested person could buy it for $8, or rent it for $5.  There will be a 2D version, as well. Of course, that leaves the rest of us out in the cold looking at half-naked ladies the old-fashioned 2D way. Life is hard.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[R2-D2 swimsuit gets a friend: Threepio]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=r2-d2-swimsuit-gets-a-friend-threepio</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why yes, this would be the droid I&amp;39'm looking for.(Credit:Black Milk Clothing)Remember the R2-D2 one-piece swimsuit from a few weeks back Some readers thought it needed a C-3PO swimsuit to go with it, and the people at Black Milk, the design company that makes the swimwear, agreed.  Meet the C-3PO swimsuit, Threepio. Like the Artoo model, it costs $85 and is amazing.And it's a good move by Black Milk, marketing-wise. Now every girl (or guy) who bought the Artoo version will have to get a friend to buy this one. You can't very well have R2-D2 without C-3PO, can you I don't speak droid and 3PO always did a fine job translating.On a personal note, I love that my job includes posting pictures of girls in swimsuits on the Internet. Call me creepy, but it's better than blogging about politics.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crave giveaway: HTC Surround Windows Phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=crave-giveaway-htc-surround-windows-phone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Enter for a chance to win this HTC Surround powered by Windows Phone (service not included). (Credit:HTC)We're on to the second week of our special two-week giveaway, with Microsoft sponsoring the giveaway and offering up a secondWindows Phone 7 smartphone to one lucky winner. Once again, that phone is the just-released HTC Surround, which features built-in Yamaha &quot;surround sound&quot; speakers and a kickstand (sorry, no service is included). So, if you didn't win last week, try again! The HTC Surround has a 1GHz processor, full wireless options, and a 5-megapixel camera. And as CNET editor Bonnie Cha said in her review, &quot;Windows Phone 7 brings a fresh and friendly user interface, great multimedia capabilities, and an improved browser.&quot; Normally, this Windows Phone smartphone would cost around $200, but we're giving one away gratis. So, how do you try to win it Let me enumerate the basic rules. Please read them carefully' there will be a test.Register as a CNET user. Go to the top of this page and hit the &quot;Join CNET&quot; link to start the registration process. If you're already registered, there's no need to register again.Leave a comment below. You can leave whatever comment you want. If it's funny or insightful, it won't help you win, but we're trying to have fun here, so anything entertaining is appreciated.Leave only one comment. You may enter this specific giveaway only once. If you enter more than one comment, you will be automatically disqualified.The winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive (1) HTC Surround Windows Phone with a retail value of $200.If you are chosen, you will be notified via e-mail. Winner must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.Entries can be submitted until Monday, November 29 at noon ET. And here's the disclaimer that our legal department said we had to include (sorry for the caps, but rules are rules):NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. MUST BE LEGAL RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C., 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO SWEEPSTAKES. VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL U.S. TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Sweepstakes ends at 12 PM ET on November 29, 2010. See official rules for details.Good luck.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg&'s &8216'Breaking News&' Feature Is Another Win For Human&nbsp'Editors]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In a pivot away from the &amp;''voice of the crowd&amp;'' philosophy central to Digg&amp;'s early culture, the social news site has launched a human curated feature called &amp;''Breaking News&amp;'' which spotlights top stories selected by Digg staff.As of today you can find Breaking News in red widgets labeled &amp;''Breaking News&amp;'' to the right of the Upcoming, My News, and Top News sections on the new Digg. a4sBreaking News stories are also designated by flame icons. This is yet another large news aggregator experimenting with human editors, a4sGoogle News and Techmeme being the most visibile news sites to make the jump intoa4shuman curation thus far.a4sa4sAnd similar to Google&amp;'s &amp;''Editors&amp;' Picks&amp;'' the widget will highlight stories deemed important but not replace the core news surfacing features of the site. Says Digg Product Lead Keval Desai, &amp;''There is no change to how the stories are submitted.a4sDigging and burying are not done by Digg employees.&amp;''So what criteria will the editors be using to deem a story Breaking News Says Desai, &amp;''The widget willa4sshowcase stories that are submitted by Digg users that are currently hot, i.e. gaining in velocity on Digg as well as what&amp;'s going on across the Internet and what&amp;'s gaining in popularity in terms of news memes.&amp;''It&amp;'s commonlya4sacknowledgeda4sthat aggregators like Reddit, Hacker News and even Digg have had at least some administrative supervision (like TOS enforcements). Digg itself faced accusations of manually intervening on behalf of certain publishers in early October.a4sDesai says this is the first time any Digg staff will put a concerted effort into picking stories for editorial reasons.This is a great idea, but it might be two years too late.a4sSays Power Digger Andy Sorcini a.k.a Mr. Babyman on whether the feature will at least revive some interest in the new Digg, &amp;''I think it&amp;'s a smart move for Digg to meta-curate their already curated content. Especially in the wake of the drop of traffic from the switch to V4, they need all the help with content surfacing they can get.&amp;'' Not all attempts at human curated news have been successful however. Breaking News resembles what Jason Calacanis attempted with Digg clone Propeller, which ultimately failed despite its novel editorial oversight features in part because it confused people accustomed to the classic Netscape.com. While human editing does make a news engine more competitive with Twitter and younger upstarts likea4sBuzzFeed and Spotery, it is not a panacea and comes with its own set of headaches.Says Sorcini, &amp;''The only concern I would have is, It&amp;'d be nice to have some sort of transparency on their selection process, so users know there&amp;'s no slant (for example, favoring a advertising partner, such as BP).&amp;'' And so it begins.CrunchBase InformationDiggInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FindTheBest hints at social plans with Kleiner Perkins funding]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[FindTheBest, the website filled with hundreds of charts comparing things like private schools and smartphones, has just raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byersa4a4 new sFund.I wasna4a4t surprised that founder and chief executive Kevin Oa4a4Connor found a big-name backer for his Santa Barbara, Calif.-based startup &amp;8212' after all, he sold his online ad company DoubleClick to Google for $3.1 billion. But the fact that the money came from Kleinera4a4s fund for social networking startups was a bit surprising. So when I got on the phone with Connor this morning, I asked: What makes FindTheBest sociala4AIta4a4s an amorphous term,a4 Oa4a4Connor acknowledged. But he said user involvement was always a key part of his plans. FindTheBest employs researchers to build the charts (which it calls a4Acomparison appsa4), but Oa4a4Connor said those researchers cana4a4t be 100 percent comprehensive on their own: a4AIta4a4s absolutely essential that businesses and consumers come and add things.a4FindTheBest has already added editing features, and people are using them, but the company hasna4a4t really promoted that part of the site yet. Encouraging that involvement will be a4Athe next big push,a4 Oa4a4Connor said.He added that FindTheBest might also incorporate data from social networks like Facebook. For example, when youa4a4re looking at the private school comparison chart, besides seeing school size, location, and student-teacher ratio, it would also be helpful to see if there are schools that your friends like or dislike.a4AWe don&amp;'t have it all figured out yet, but we&amp;'re definitely excited about the possibilities,a4 Oa4a4Connor said.When I explored FindTheBest a couple of months ago, I was impressed by the quality of information, especially compared to Googlea4a4s efforts to build similar charts with its Google Squared product. There are now 440 comparison apps on the site, and Oa4a4Connor said his goal is to reach 700 or 800 in the next year.The size of the funding was not disclosed. Kleiner partner Randy Komisar will join FindTheBesta4a4s board of directors.Next Story: By suing popular chat app Kik, is RIM poisoning its own ecosystem Previous Story: IBM makes breakthrough in super-fast laser chipsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: sFundCompanies: FindTheBest, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' ByersPeople: Kevin O&amp;'Connor, Randy Komisar          Tags: sFundCompanies: FindTheBest, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' ByersPeople: Kevin O&amp;'Connor, Randy KomisarAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hitwise: Visits To Black Friday Sites Up 18 Percent, Searches Up 31 Percent From Last&nbsp'Year]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[All signs point to this holiday season being a prosperous one for retailers. Hitwise is reporting that searches around Black Friday are up 31%, and the share of visits to Black Friday websites are up 18% from last year during the same time. Hitwise&amp;'s data also shows that more women than men are visiting the Black Friday websites with visits split 59% female and 41% male and visitors to Black Friday sites tend to be younger with 59% of visitors under the age of 35. In terms of the retailers who are receiving visits from interested consumers, Walmart was top retail site receiving traffic from Black Friday sites for last week. Target was top retail site receiving traffic from Black Friday searches for last week and Walmart takes the top spot for searches this week. Interestingly, referrals from Facebook.com and Twitter.com to Black Friday sites are up 36% in 2010 vs. 2009, indicating that more consumers and retailers are looking to social media to spread information about deals. In terms of emails about Black Friday deals Hitwise is reporting that email marketing volume is up 23% in 2010 vs. 2009' with Black Friday emails hitting consumer inboxes as early as Oct. 1 of this year.While we don&amp;'t know how profitable Black Friday will be for retailers, an increase in searches and traffic shows that consumers could be pulling out the credit card more often this holiday season. Yesterday, comScore forecasted that online holiday spending would increase by 11 percent to $32.4 billion. You can check out our Black Friday survival guide here. CrunchBase InformationHitwiseInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hell Freezes Over As MySpace Fully Surrenders To&nbsp'Facebook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It was just a couple of years ago that MySpace wasn&amp;'t all that concerned about the fast growing Facebook. Fast forward two years and a handful of CEO changes, and everything has changed. Last summer MySpace found a way to get MySpace status updates into Facebook. And today at noon at a special press event that everyone was invited to except us, they&amp;'ll announce more integrations. And it&amp;'s ok that we weren&amp;'t invited, because we now know exactly what they&amp;'re announcing.The event is less of a partnership announcement and more of a formal surrender ceremony.MySpace is sending CEO Mike Jones for the announcement. Facebook managed to rustle up a vice president &amp;8211' Dan Rose. Our sources say MySpace is a little more than embarrassed that Facebook isn&amp;'t making someone more senior available for the event.Here&amp;'s at least part of what they&amp;'ll announce. Facebook Connect integration so that users can associate their MySpace accounts with their Facebook accounts and then log in to MySpace via Connect. Part of that is already live. MySpace will suck in as much profile information as possible and use it to help with advertising and the interest graph (bands you like, etc.)And they&amp;'ll also announce that Facebook users will now be able to push all their Facebook status updates to MySpace. So your Facebook stream will appear on your MySpace profile.Now all MySpace has to do is figure out how to get at least some of those users to hang out at MySpace occasionally, not just at Facebook. Their recent redesign is that effort. In a few months, we&amp;'ll all know if it worked and if there is any long term business for MySpace.CrunchBase InformationMySpaceFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google investor John Doerr: Zynga is our best company ever]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DefevantHat</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[John Doerr, the legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist, gave high praise to Zynga, the leading social game company, saying it was one of the best investments his firm had ever made.Doerr&amp;'s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, has invested in a lot of companies from Google to Amazon. So Doerr&amp;'s comment, spoken at the Web 2.0 Summit in conversation with fellow VC Fred Wilson and journalist John Heilemann, is particularly worth noting.Doerr said Zynga is the most-profitable, fastest-growing, and has the happiest customers of any company that Kleiner Perkins has invested in. Just three years old, Zynga has an estimated market value above $5 billion, more than 320 million registered users, 1,300 employees and estimated revenues this year above $500 million.Doerr and Kleiner Perkins have a lot to crow about lately. Besides investing in Zynga, they invested in Ngmoco, the mobile game company that was acquired recently by Japan&amp;'s DeNA for $403 million. Doerr said that the payback from the Ngmoco investment more than paid back all of the money the firm invested in its iFund, which focused on iPhone investments.&amp;''This mobile thing isn&amp;'t over,&amp;'' Doerr said. &amp;''It&amp;'s a monster market trend.&amp;''While Doerr was excited about high valuations, calling the latest period a &amp;''boom&amp;'' for Silicon Valley, Wilson was cautious, calling it a &amp;''bubble.&amp;''Doerr had high praise for Apple&amp;'s iPhone ecosystem, which he said has generated more than $1 billion in royalties for app makers and freed developers from having to submit their apps to carriers. Wilson, however, said Apple had done nothing more than recreate the cable TV monopoly system, which is a closed platform. Wilson is an enthusiastic fan of the Android platform.Doerr shot back that Apple was great at execution and, stealing a quote from statesman Colin Powell, Doerr said, &amp;''Innovation without execution is hallucination.&amp;''Wilson said that the valuations of Zynga as $6 billion or more and Facebook at $35 billion or more are high. If one of those companies gets bought for those prices, however, Wilson said, that would validate the hoopla around the valuations, which are based on sales of company shares on private secondary markets.Doerr said that Kleiner Perkins teamed up to create the sFund, focused on social company investments, in order to find the next generation of startups that can build big businesses on top of social platforms. Doerr said that Kleiner Perkins has gotten more than 600 proposals so far from entrepreneurs.&amp;''Zynga is the model&amp;'' of success for entrepreneurs to follow Doerr said.Wilson praised Doerr as the &amp;''Michael Jordan of venture capital.&amp;'' But Doerr acknowledged that Kleiner Perkins isn&amp;'t infallible. He recalled that Kleiner Perkins had a chance to invest in Twitter and chose not to do so because the startup didn&amp;'t have traction. Now Twitter has more than 100 million users, and Kleiner&amp;'s mistake is obvious, Doerr said.Next Story: Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook&amp;'s aggressive social strategy Previous Story: Kleiner&amp;'s John Doerr: &amp;''We were wrong&amp;'' to turn down TwitterPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: social games, Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, Ngmoco, Union Square Ventures, ZyngaPeople: Fred Wilson, John Doerr, John Heilemann          Tags: social games, Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, Ngmoco, Union Square Ventures, ZyngaPeople: Fred Wilson, John Doerr, John HeilemannDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Meet Google&'s new CEO, same as the old CEO: Larry Page]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the longest, most successful runs as chief executive of an Internet company has come to an end: Come April 4, Eric Schmidt will step down as Google&amp;'s CEO, and cofounder Larry Page will resume the position.Yes, resume. It&amp;'s so long ago that few remember, but Page was Google&amp;'s first CEO, and he held the job from 1998 until 2001, when Schmidt was hired. Page, his cofounder Sergey Brin, and Schmidt have long ruled as a triumvirate. They&amp;'ll continue to &amp;''discuss&amp;'' key decisions, according to a blog post by Schmidt. But the rule by troika is apparently coming to an end:For the last 10 years, we have all been equally involved in making decisions. This triumvirate approach has real benefits in terms of shared wisdom, and we will continue to discuss the big decisions among the three of us. But we have also agreed to clarify our individual roles so therea4a4s clear responsibility and accountability at the top of the company.On the company&amp;'s previously scheduled quarterly earnings call with analysts Thursday afternoon, Page congratulated Schmidt. But the conversation had an inevitably valedictory note.Page has long held an interest in the top role: When I wrote about Google&amp;'s $25 million fundraising from Kleiner and Sequoia, I inadvertently swapped his position with that of Brin, who was then president, a mistake which promptly generated an email directly from Page himself. And I&amp;'ve heard from insiders over the years that Page was eager to be CEO again.That&amp;'s never been the case with Brin, who is stepping down from his current role as president. This, too, is significant: Under Google&amp;'s corporate bylaws (which, no joke, I happened to be reading for kicks the other day), a president has many powers and responsibilities, including the ability to call a special meeting of the board. Brin is giving up all that, though he will likely retain considerable moral authority, including Google&amp;'s &amp;''don&amp;'t be evil&amp;'' ethos. (&amp;''Evil is whatever Sergey says is evil,&amp;'' Schmidt once told Wired.)Page&amp;'s emphasis has always been on the company&amp;'s products. With his ascendancy, the company&amp;'s engineers will reign unchallenged &amp;8212' not that they had much trouble before.It&amp;'s not clear what prompted the timing of this announcement. The company has faced increasing difficulties in buying its way into adjacent markets: See its failed bid for Groupon, or its attempted purchase of travel-search startup ITA Software, currently held up in regulatory review amid concerns from rivals. At the same time, Google has struggled in launching new products, especially social ones, to fend off challenges from Facebook and Twitter.If it can&amp;'t buy, it must build. The question is, is Page a builder He was in his first round as CEO. Now he&amp;'ll have to prove his product chops anew. One thing&amp;'s for sure now: He won&amp;'t have anyone else to blame if he screws things up.A side note for corporate-governance geeks: In the triumvirate arrangement, Page and Brin both held the title of president, and Google&amp;'s corporate bylaws were written more or less around their roles. The bylaws say:5.1 OFFICERS.The officers of the corporation shall be a chief executive officer, one or more presidents (at the discretion of the Board), a chairman of the Board and a secretary.That suggests, at least in my reading, that Google needs to have at least one president &amp;8212' &amp;''shall,&amp;'' not &amp;''may,&amp;'' with the board&amp;'s discretion applying only to the question of whether there&amp;'s one president or more. With Page moving up to CEO and Brin apparently giving up his title of president, will Google be in technical violation of its bylaws Nothing prevents Page from holding the title of president and CEO &amp;8212' Google&amp;'s bylaws specifically say people can hold more than one office &amp;8212' but Google hasn&amp;'t indicated that&amp;'s the case in this transition. I invited Google PR to clarify, but they declined to do so on the record. In any case, there&amp;'s plenty of time between now and April 4 to clean this up.Next Story: Google revenue climbs 26 percent Previous Story: Coskata grabs biggest slice of USDA&amp;'s $405M in biofuels loan guaranteesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: GooglePeople: Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey Brin          Companies: GooglePeople: Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey BrinOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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