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In the Plex

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596593
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book In the Plex written by Steven Levy and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most interesting book ever written about Google” (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword. Google is arguably the most important company in the world today, with such pervasive influence that its name is a verb. The company founded by two Stanford graduate students—Larry Page and Sergey Brin—has become a tech giant known the world over. Since starting with its search engine, Google has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, power utilities, self-driving cars, all while remaining the most powerful company in the advertising business. Granted unprecedented access to the company, Levy disclosed that the key to Google’s success in all these businesses lay in its engineering mindset and adoption of certain internet values such as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk-taking. Levy discloses details behind Google’s relationship with China, including how Brin disagreed with his colleagues on the China strategy—and why its social networking initiative failed; the first time Google tried chasing a successful competitor. He examines Google’s rocky relationship with government regulators, particularly in the EU, and how it has responded when employees left the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. In the Plex is the “most authoritative…and in many ways the most entertaining” (James Gleick, The New York Book Review) account of Google to date and offers “an instructive primer on how the minds behind the world’s most influential internet company function” (Richard Waters, The Wall Street Journal).

Facebook

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073521316X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Facebook written by Steven Levy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Technology Books of 2020—Financial Times “Levy’s all-access Facebook reflects the reputational swan dive of its subject. . . . The result is evenhanded and devastating.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Levy’s] evenhanded conclusions are still damning.”—Reason “[He] doesn’t shy from asking the tough questions.”—The Washington Post “Reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire.”—NPR.org The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO—who has enormous power over what the world sees and says—never has a company been more central to the national conversation. Millions of words have been written about Facebook, but no one has told the complete story, documenting its ascendancy and missteps. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life, or the imperative of this book to document the unchecked power and shocking techniques of the company, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering its biggest rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, to developing a platform so addictive even some of its own are now beginning to realize its dangers. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.

The Perfect Thing

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743293916
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Thing written by Steven Levy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology -- if not necessarily for its dominant market share -- launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded the company's wildest dreams. Over 50 million people have inserted the device's distinctive white buds into their ears, and the iPod has become a global obsession. The Perfect Thing is the definitive account, from design and marketing to startling impact, of Apple's iPod, the signature device of our young century. Besides being one of the most successful consumer products in decades, the iPod has changed our behavior and even our society. It has transformed Apple from a computer company into a consumer electronics giant. It has remolded the music business, altering not only the means of distribution but even the ways in which people enjoy and think about music. Its ubiquity and its universally acknowledged coolness have made it a symbol for the digital age itself, with commentators remarking on "the iPod generation." Now the iPod is beginning to transform the broadcast industry, too, as podcasting becomes a way to access radio and television programming. Meanwhile millions of Podheads obsess about their gizmo, reveling in the personal soundtrack it offers them, basking in the social cachet it lends them, even wondering whether the device itself has its own musical preferences. Steven Levy, the chief technology correspondent for Newsweek magazine and a longtime Apple watcher, is the ideal writer to tell the iPod's tale. He has had access to all the key players in the iPod story, including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom Levy has known for over twenty years. Detailing for the first time the complete story of the creation of the iPod, Levy explains why Apple succeeded brilliantly with its version of the MP3 player when other companies didn't get it right, and how Jobs was able to convince the bosses at the big record labels to license their music for Apple's groundbreaking iTunes Store. (We even learn why the iPod is white.) Besides his inside view of Apple, Levy draws on his experiences covering Napster and attending Supreme Court arguments on copyright (as well as his own travels on the iPod's click wheel) to address all of the fascinating issues -- technical, legal, social, and musical -- that the iPod raises. Borrowing one of the definitive qualities of the iPod itself, The Perfect Thing shuffles the book format. Each chapter of this book was written to stand on its own, a deeply researched, wittily observed take on a different aspect of the iPod. The sequence of the chapters in the book has been shuffled in different copies, with only the opening and concluding sections excepted. "Shuffle" is a hallmark of the digital age -- and The Perfect Thing, via sharp, insightful reporting, is the perfect guide to the deceptively diminutive gadget embodying our era.

Plato at the Googleplex

Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378195
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Plato at the Googleplex written by Rebecca Goldstein and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.

Fun with Plex

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442422890
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Fun with Plex written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lots of things are fun to do in Gabba-land. It's fun to brush your teeth! It's fun to sweep the floor! It's fun to read this book! Kids will think it's cool to read with this colorful Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read featuring simple sentences and the world's coolest robot around...Plex!

The Plex Solution

Author : P. Bird
Publisher : Seafront Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1478366974
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book The Plex Solution written by P. Bird and published by Seafront Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friends Electra (a self proclaimed Cyberpunk) and her Magnoball playing best friend Zena are fairly ordinary girls living it up in the Lunar City. All their needs taken care of by the all powerful Plex and their only worries are concerned with how to get a boyfriend. All that changes, however, when a stranger comes to visit in the shape of a young man called Guy. As events unfold the girls are thrust into the middle of an interplanetary conspiracy where everything that was once certain is now in doubt.When her friend goes missing, Electra travels to Earth to find a society very different from her own though finds herself strangely drawn to it. But that's just the start of the adventure and before long she is encountering among other things, alligators, vampire bats and invisibility body paint!And who is the mysterious young girl of whom the prophecies speak who, it is foretold, will usher in the New Age?

Hackers

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449393748
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Hackers written by Steven Levy and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic," that still thrives today. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.

Insanely Great

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140291776
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Insanely Great written by Steven Levy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of the Mac in 1984 catapulted America into the digital millennium, captured a fanatic cult audience, and transformed the computer industry into an unprecedented mix of technology, economics, and show business. Now veteran technology writer and Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy zooms in on the great machine and the fortunes of the unique company responsible for its evolution. Loaded with anecdote and insight, and peppered with sharp commentary, Insanely Great is the definitive book on the most important computer ever made. It is a must-have for anyone curious about how we got to the interactive age.

Google It

Author : Anna Crowley Redding
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250148219
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Google It written by Anna Crowley Redding and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world's information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential and innovative companies in the world. The word “google” has even entered our vocabulary as a verb. Now, find out the true history of Google—from its humble beginnings as a thesis project made out of “borrowed” hardware and discount toys through its revolution of the world's relationship with technology to a brief glimpse of where they might take us next. In Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and most importantly, of shooting for the moon in order to change the world.

Flex With A Plex

Author : Joe Mendoza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Flex With A Plex written by Joe Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flex with a Plex is a mini-autobiographical journey. It could definitely be woven into your journey as well.. Inside are the ups and downs, some trials and tribulations, advantages, disadvantages of many different concepts, ideas, and strategies that one must have or acquire to become a successful real estate investor, perhaps live the lifestyle, and ultimately if they so choose, achieve financial freedom. Once achieved you can have FLEXibility to work or not to work. FLEX your investment portfolio muscle. Share your success with your friends and family, so they too can maybe get inspired into investing in real estate. Have the FLEXibility to fly first class and site visit your properties and maybe turn your business trip into a vacation too!This book was written in efforts to provide great, relevant, credible information for those that are seeking to get started in real estate investing, hoping to learn more, or be more inspired into action . From newbie to seasoned investors, readers will get great insight drawn from the author's personal experience and many other credible sources of wisdom in the industry. There is a major opportunity always in every market. See it and seize it. The choice is yours.

The Google Story (2018 Updated Edition)

Author : David A. Vise
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0440335701
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Google Story (2018 Updated Edition) written by David A. Vise and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, bestselling account of the company that changed the way we work and live, updated for the twentieth anniversary of Google’s founding with analysis of its most recent bold moves to redefine the world—and its even more ambitious plans for the future. Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, as they said, “change the world” through a powerful search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. The Google Story takes you deep inside the company’s wild ride from an idea that struggled for funding in 1998 to a firm that today rakes in billions in profits. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, this fast-moving narrative reveals how an unorthodox management style and a culture of innovation enabled a search-engine giant to shake up Madison Avenue, clash with governments that accuse it of being a monopoly, deploy self-driving cars to forever change how we travel, and launch high-flying Internet balloons. Unafraid of controversy, Google is surging ahead with artificial intelligence that could cure diseases but also displace millions of people from their jobs, testing the founders’ guiding mantra: DON’T BE EVIL. Praise for The Google Story “[The authors] do a fine job of recounting Google’s rapid rise and explaining its search business.”—The New York Times “An intriguing insider view of the Google culture.”—Harvard Business Review “An interesting read on a powerhouse company . . . If you haven’t read anything about one of today’s most influential companies, you should. If you don’t read The Google Story, you’re missing a few extra treats.”—USA Today “Fascinating . . . meticulous . . . never bogs down.”—Houston Chronicle

Google Secrets

Author : Yvette Davis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118193717
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Google Secrets written by Yvette Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a Google guru with these effective tips, tricks, and techniques Sure, you use Google. But do you really use Google—and everything it has to offer—in the most effective way possible? Wish you could just sit down with a Google expert who would show you how to take your Google savviness to the next level? With Google Secrets, you can! Tech expert Jerri Ledford reveals the ins, outs, and little-known facts about Google to show you how to sharpen your skills so you can get more done, more efficiently. You may already be familiar with Google's most popular applications, but this indispensable guide puts your knowledge to the test with insider tips, valuable insights, and unbeatable advice on Gmail, Google Voice, Google Sketchup, Google Analytics, and dozens more. Explores the dozens of Google applications that help you stay in touch, collaborate more effectively, and locate all the information you need to accomplish almost any task Builds on your already-savvy set of Google skills and takes your smarts to the next level with little-known secrets, unique tips and tricks, and helpful hints Reveals the powerful capabilities of the entire spectrum of Google applications, such as Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa, Google Buzz, Google Maps, and much more If you demand more than just the basics, then Google Secrets is the book you’ve been waiting for!

I'm Feeling Lucky

Author : Douglas Edwards
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547549032
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book I'm Feeling Lucky written by Douglas Edwards and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marketing director’s story of working at a startup called Google in the early days of the tech boom: “Vivid inside stories . . . Engrossing” (Ken Auletta). Douglas Edwards wasn’t an engineer or a twentysomething fresh out of school when he received a job offer from a small but growing search engine company at the tail end of the 1990s. But founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin needed staff to develop the brand identity of their brainchild, and Edwards fit the bill with his journalistic background at the San Jose Mercury News, the newspaper of Silicon Valley. It was a change of pace for Edwards, to say the least, and put him in a unique position to interact with and observe the staff as Google began its rocket ride to the top. In entertaining, self-deprecating style, he tells his story of participating in this moment of business and technology history, giving readers a chance to fully experience the bizarre mix of camaraderie and competition at this phenomenal company. Edwards, Google’s first director of marketing and brand management, describes the idiosyncratic Page and Brin, the evolution of the famously nonhierarchical structure in which every employee finds a problem to tackle and works independently, the races to develop and implement each new feature, and the many ideas that never came to pass. I’m Feeling Lucky reveals what it’s like to be “indeed lucky, sort of an accidental millionaire, a reluctant bystander in a sea of computer geniuses who changed the world. This is a rare look at what happened inside the building of the most important company of our time” (Seth Godin, author of Linchpin). “An affectionate, compulsively readable recounting of the early years (1999–2005) of Google . . . This lively, thoughtful business memoir is more entertaining than it really has any right to be, and should be required reading for startup aficionados.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Edwards recounts Google’s stumbles and rise with verve and humor and a generosity of spirit. He kept me turning the pages of this engrossing tale.” —Ken Auletta, author of Greed and Glory on Wall Street “Funny, revealing, and instructive, with an insider’s perspective I hadn’t seen anywhere before. I thought I had followed the Google story closely, but I realized how much I’d missed after reading—and enjoying—this book.” —James Fallows, author of China Airborne

Crypto

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101199466
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Crypto written by Steven Levy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-01-08 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"—nerds and visionaries turned freedom fighters—teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.

Be a Work in Progress

Author : John Cena
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593356411
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Be a Work in Progress written by John Cena and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated book of encouragement from the beloved entertainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author John Cena “Each day, try to become a little less perfect and a little more brave.” For years, John Cena has been using his popular Twitter feed to uplift his followers with his unique brand of positivity. Now, he collects his favorite words of wisdom on the benefits of being bold and open-minded, embracing discomfort, and making the most of every opportunity. Heartfelt and hopeful, Be a Work in Progress is the pick-me-up readers will turn to again and again.

Play with Plex

Author : Maggie Testa
Publisher : Simon Spotlight
ISBN 13 : 9781416997405
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Play with Plex written by Maggie Testa and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come on Yo Gabba Gabba! fans and Play with Plex. This board book shaped just like everyone's favorite magic robot moves, wiggles, and dances!

At the Trough

Author : Adam Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950412693
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book At the Trough written by Adam Knight and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where schools have no teachers and no classrooms, Jennifer Calderon is the perfect student. Every day she watches her video modules, plays her edu games, and never misses an answer. Life is comfortable in the Plex, a mile-wide apartment building. Corporations and brand names surround her and satisfy her every want and need. Then one day, her foul-mouthed, free-spirited, 90's-kitsch-wearing girlfriend Melody disrupts everything. She introduces her to a cynical, burned-out former teacher, who teaches them the things no longer taught in school. Poetry. Critical thinking. Human connection. But these lessons draw the attention of EduForce, the massive corporation with a stranglehold on education. When they show how far they are willing to go keep their customers obedient, Jennifer has to decide what is most important to her and how much she is willing to sacrifice for it.