Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: What Would Google Do? via Amazon.com: Google in Books on 12/30/08
A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google—the fastest-growing company in history—to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything—from corporations to governments, nations to individuals—must evolve in the Google era. Along the way, he looks under the hood of a car designed by its drivers, ponders a worldwide university where the students design their curriculum, envisions an airline fueled by a social network, imagines the open-source restaurant, and examines a series of industries and institutions that will soon benefit from this book's central question. The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It's about you. Author: Jeff Jarvis Hardcover: 272 pages Company: Collins Business (2009-02-01) (2009-01-27) ISBN: 0061709719 List Price: $26.99 Amazon Price: $17.25 Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Amazon.com: Google in Books using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
