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The Matrix Ultimate

2010-02-10T23:44:00.010+07:00

The Story of Blogger

2010-02-08T09:09:00.035+07:00

BLOGGER

Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. But we weren't exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, foosball-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit. (Unless it was other people's free beer.)

We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. What we were originally trying to do doesn't matter so much now. But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm... that's kinda interesting.

Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. We raised a little money (but stayed small). And then the bust happened, and we ran out of money, and our fun little journey got less fun. We narrowly survived, not all in one piece, but kept the service going the whole time (most days) and started building it back up.

Things were going well again in 2002. We had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people. And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy us. Yes, that Google

We liked Google a lot. And they liked blogs. So we were amenable to the idea. And it worked out nicely.

Now we're a small (but slightly bigger than before) team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective. Which has pretty much always been our whole deal.

For more on Google, check google.com. (Also good for searching.)

War Makes Us Stupid

2010-02-05T07:58:00.000+07:00

How many

Einsteins

have

killed?

Poster from Marko Tursunovic | Inspired by Om Ipit

William Shakespeare

2010-02-05T06:16:00.007+07:00

TENTANG

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lahir di Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Inggris, 26 April 1564 – meninggal di Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Inggris, 23 April 1616 pada umur 51 tahun, adalah seorang penulis Inggris yang seringkali disebut orang sebagai salah satu sastrawan terbesar Inggris. Ia menulis sekitar 38 sandiwara tragedi, komedi, sejarah, dan 154 sonata, 2 puisi naratif, dan puisi-puisi yang lain. Ia menulis antara tahun 1585 dan 1613 dan karyanya telah diterjemahkan di hampir semua bahasa hidup di dunia dan dipentaskan di panggung lebih daripada semua penulis sandiwara yang lain.

TULISAN

Shakespeare menulis tentang keadaan manusia yang sangat manusiawi. Ia memahami apa yang hampir semua orang ingini: untuk menyayangi orang lain, dan disayangi oleh orang lain; makan, minum, dan tidur dengan tenang; untuk hidup di tengah dunia yang besar dan memiliki arti di dalam hidup. Shakespeare juga memahami bahwa manusia memiliki kelemahan-kelemahan yang terkadang jauh dari rencana-rencana mereka yang terhormat (atau tidak terhormat). Shakespeare adalah seorang jenius yang menunjukkan pada kita diri kita sesungguhnya.