Google has a development office in Chicago but I don't think it's very big. The 600k sq ft of Chicago office space mentioned in this post is probably a reference to the new Motorola office space in the Merch Mart.
...because Google was being very arrogant in their stagnation of source tools and community coding infrastructure.
It's easy to say GitHub is killing it now, but back then (2008), GitHub was slow, buggy, and could have been eclipsed by anybody with the drive and focus to run them into the ground. But, GitHub had (has) those wacky overachieving social coder founders. The entirety of Google doesn't have a chance at even recognizing people like that within their ranks, much less (these days) pulling them up out of the muck into leadership positions to create viable competitive products.
It points to a great reason behind the G+ failure too. If they couldn't make a viable social service for nerds—their core in-office demo—what is the chance they can make a social service for the planet?
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What does Google do at its Chicago office? I can never quite figure that city out.
Google has a development office in Chicago but I don't think it's very big. The 600k sq ft of Chicago office space mentioned in this post is probably a reference to the new Motorola office space in the Merch Mart.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120726/BLOGS02/1207...
The new Google space will actually be in West Loop.
Google Code was running out of there for a while until they stagnated and let GitHub steal all the cookies.
It's not stealing if Google Code never had them in the first place.
GitHub is running circles around everyone.
...because Google was being very arrogant in their stagnation of source tools and community coding infrastructure.
It's easy to say GitHub is killing it now, but back then (2008), GitHub was slow, buggy, and could have been eclipsed by anybody with the drive and focus to run them into the ground. But, GitHub had (has) those wacky overachieving social coder founders. The entirety of Google doesn't have a chance at even recognizing people like that within their ranks, much less (these days) pulling them up out of the muck into leadership positions to create viable competitive products.
It points to a great reason behind the G+ failure too. If they couldn't make a viable social service for nerds—their core in-office demo—what is the chance they can make a social service for the planet?