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Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page
theodp writes "Vic Gundotra, formerly Sr. VP of Social (and now, of Engineering) at Google, and head of the company's social networking service Google+, hasn't posted anything on his Twitter account since July 2011. Why? Responding to a question about his own social networking behavior at SMX 2012, Gundotra explained that he was asked by Google CEO Larry Page not to tweet anymore. 'I was asked not to tweet again.' Gundotra said (video). 'I was asked not to do that by my boss [Page]. I tweeted a tweet about two companies [Microsoft, Nokia] that went viral, went very very viral and made a lot of headline news.' So, what does it say when the Google CEO who reportedly tied all Googlers' bonuses to social networking apparently finds it too dangerous to permit the head of Google+ to participate in social networking?"
Larry Page is a dictator. A tyrant... but that's what we've conditioned our society to look for in a 'good' CEO.
Was Steve Jobs any different? Most of these CEOs sound like complete assholes (especially when you listen to them talk to or about other humans).
I really wish more CEOs would be like Carnegie or Gates. True models of men that more people really should emulate.
I don't find it sad, other than it's sad that some public companies are run by people who don't understand their responsibilities to the public.
We have financial disclosure laws and public-release laws because of situations like this: http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-insider-trading-scandals-2011-11?op=1
Vic posts all of the time on Google+. He hasn't been banned from social networking.
Except Google itself apparently has an official corporate Twitter account that's active and has 5.4+ million followers ("Verified Profile"). BTW, Apple also has an official YouTube Channel despite Steve Jobs' feelings towards Google.
So, what does it say when the Google CEO who reportedly tied all Googlers' bonuses to social networking apparently finds it too dangerous to permit the head of Google+ to participate in social networking?"
1) Because he's in a Senior VP! What he says can influence the stock price, among other things.
2) Twitter and Facebook are the competition.
That was very complicated, wasn't it?
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It means that "Social Networking" is for the little people. Its' for the rubes you are taking. It means, like everything else in this society - it is hierarchical and tiered. They only participate to manage you. Not as your social peer.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
This differs from Facebook where an account is required to view it.
You do not need a Facebook account to view public pages.
Because the company files a form called a 10K that explains how and where they will make public disclosures, so that anyone can go to the SEC's website and find out. They did not list the CEO's facebook page as one of those places.
That wasn't Batman. That was Harvey Dent, before he became Twoface.
By the civil war, technology had almost made (agricultural) slavery barely a breakeven (and more popular in the South largely because they had slow-moving swamps rather than the North's swiftly flowing rivers).
None of this makes historical or geographic sense.
Cotton was famously resistant to mechanization. There is no such thing as a commercially viable mechanical cotton picker until 1943. Cotton picker
. The crop comprised more than half the total value of domestic exports in the period 1815-1860, and in 1860, earnings from cotton paid for 60 percent of all imports.
Cotton
The South had as prosperous and extensive a riverine and coastal trade as existed anywhere on earth. Before the Erie Canal and the railroad almost all commercial traffic in the US states and territories moved north to south by water.
The pull would later threaten the foundations of Canadian nationalism.