The tech crowd did go for the April fools day …
If companies have offices like Google, i would not like to go home at all…
If your ideal workspace includes a slide, a games room, a ‘chill-out’ aquarium and plenty of free food then you had better get your CV into Google.
Recently Google Inc. opened its new office in Switzerland Zürich, the building is designed for 300 engineers to work there. According to BBC, Google Engineers work in small teams of three or four, which is reflected at the Zurich HQ with small offices, each of which comes with the requisite ‘bean bag’ meeting room. Whiteboards are everywhere, allowing ideas to be written down wherever they are thought up and there is a heavy emphasis on the idea that work and play can co-exist. Other areas include a games room, a library in the style of an English country house and an aquarium where over-worked Googlers can lie in a bath full of red foam and stare at fish. Google is keen to present itself as the company that ‘does no evil’ and ‘puts users first’, statements that are becoming more challenged as the company becomes ever more powerful.
After going thought the work environment, extremely inspirational work place and innovative / casual way of working your creativity at Google i had no other options but just to apply once again at Google for job :) (this is my third attempt :) )
Google Zürich Office Video
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I was just roaming around on the net and was going through Genex Blog and stumbled upon the story on AboutUs.org, which happen to have an office in Lahore. AboutUs.org is a sort of wikipedia, but instead of wiki about dead people i mean historic stuff and encyclopedia it a wiki on people, business & web according to them
AboutUs is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other community created topics. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day.
So to test the site i entered my name and search, when result came i was bit shocked as some one had been kind enough to add all my information there, even my picture ! My website was already listed with all its details. Its a good feeling to see that happen and gives a feeling as if you were some kind of a famous Designer on whom people would write about any how apart from that day dreaming part it is a bit scary as well in terms of Privacy, as what all we publish on our web properties gets reproduced some other place without our knowledge.
The last time i saw this technology was a James Bond movie where he had a pair of glasses with which you could see through the clothes, it was a good fantasy…..
A camera that can “see” explosives, drugs and weapons hidden under clothing from 25 metres has been invented.The ThruVision system could be deployed at airports, railway stations or other public spaces.It is based on so-called “terahertz”, or T-ray, technology, normally used by astronomers to study dying stars. Although it is able to see through clothes it does not reveal “body detail” or subject people to “harmful radiation”, according to the designers.
“It is totally and utterly passive - it receives only,” said a spokesperson for Thruvision.
Source: BBC News
