Googler1: Have you read pandas vs lobsters? We're pandas, and we need to become lobsters!
Googler2: Pandas are googley. Lobsters are not.
Googler3: I think the cafeteria is serving lobsters today.
Googler1: The only lobster product we have is YouTube!
Googler2: Youtube is full of inefficient time wasters. They suck.
Googler3: No, they served lobster yesterday. Today's they're serving deep friend panda. Yum!
Googler1: People seem to spend the most time on gmail after YouTube.
Googler2: Email can be productive.
Googler3: Deep friend paaanndaaa! (drools)
Googler1: Let's let people make calls from gmail, and then they will spend even more time in that application, being social, and we will be more like lobsters.
Googler2: Then maybe we can bring back Google Buzz too. Or was that Google Wave?
I also have a feeling, that Apple's Ping service came out of a conversation like this:
His Steveness: Have you read pandas vs lobsters? We make beautiful hardware, so maybe we're beavers, and we need to become lobsters!Ping sucks. The gmail/Google phone thing doesn't make too much sense either to me. Maybe I'm missing something.
Minion: The iPhone is social. It's like a lobster
His Steveness: Not social enough. I need a new minion!
Minion2: iTunes could be social. Music is a social thing. And we could make it easy for people to get started by using Facebook Connect!
His Steveness: But then we wouldn't control everything. I need a new minion!
Minion3: iTunes could be social. Music is a social thing. And we can make people register with us and control them.
His Steveness: Excellent! Does it involve the web in any way?
Minion3: It needn't. We can have it all run in iTunes.
His Steveness: Will this make it opaque to SEO? Will anyone be able to integrate?
Minion3: We could build it that way.
His Steveness: New minion!
Minion4: No. Never
His Steveness: Excellent. Make it so
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