This will be looked back at as an example of when Google missed the beat and lost their exceptionalism.
Google hasn't been exceptional since they shuttered Labs. Man I used to be excited when something new popped up in Labs, haha. Now it's just.. lame.
Area 120 doesn't have the same feel, partially because it's branding is something your dad would think is cool, but also because nothing interesting has ever come out of it. Mostly just "this is Google's version of x". Where'd all the innovation go?
>Where'd all the innovation go?
who wants to innovate something cool when in a matter of months the GoogOverloards will decide to shutter it. that's not an enticement to spend time developing something.
Idk call it Google Poggers or something (I never said I had the answers, hah)
(I couldn't really say. I just watch music videos and it's all fans praising the musicians. It's probably different elsewhere.)
Fair play if they managed to tidy it up, admittedly I've not checked a YouTube comment section in ages. I'll update my knowledge :)
Remember what it was like when it was semi-obligatory for newspaper websites to have a comments section on every article?
Like many a big organisation, it's been taken over by the managerial class, which will strangle any efforts at innovation, and prefer keeping things the way they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug
>Josh from the Game Helpin' Squad actually tries to get some work done. Or, rather, he complains about how people didn't appreciate it when he got some work done.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (7/10) Movie CLIP - The High Water Mark (1998) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUgs2O7Okqc
>Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant.
>There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
>And that, I think, was the handle -- that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
>So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.