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Silicon Valley Atwitter

It seems the valley has Hollywood envy.  How come all the gossip is always centered around the antics of Lindsay (who oddly has gone quiet) and those of some royal across the pond?  Why after all having tremendous wealth are the valley elite not part of the tabloids?  Is geekdom ruining our chances of hitting the spotlights?  Is the Zucker walking with Chan the best photo op we can present to the world?

Well the answer came this week in the form of the media outlets going beserk (as in atwitter - also using twitter to twit all the juicy nonsense) with the news that a famous Russian (or ex Russian) - no not Putin - the other most powerful one - Sergey - not the one from Dom Joly's tour of the Chernobyl site - but the Brin himself was in the news.

Not with his glasses (as in Google Glass) but with some sort of egg on his face or so they would have you believe.

Apparently the world's richest (one of the top few anyway) fell for the oldest scam in the book - got cozy with someone at work - broke the covenant that he wrote - thou shall do no evil or something to that effect.  Of course it is all meaningless drivel anyway but hey suddenly other than Syrian chemicals and falling rupees, Silicon Valley got a chance to show who's boss!

Perhaps he was merely experimenting with the recent research about the correlation between having sex and getting a raise.  Or was having his employee test out the theory - its not like he needs a - ahem - raise?

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  1. RajendraAugust 30, 2013 at 6:55 PM

    Does this prove that Zucker is not a sucker but that Brin is brinning with confidence?

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