A place where innovators, experts and Google's homegrown visionaries lend their insights and outlook on the digital future.
The People Issue
‘Fast is better than slow’ is a cornerstone of Google’s philosophy. Here, search guru and SVP of Infrastructure Urs Hoelzle, explains why.
WORDS BY Urs Hoelzle
Marty St. George, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Commercial at JetBlue, reveals how social media has added jet fuel to the business.
WORDS BY Ray Rogers
Guest columnist Paul Gunning, CEO of Tribal DDB Worldwide, extols the virtues of marketing at speed. Welcome to the real-time revolution.
WORDS BY Paul Gunning
Big business is traditionally slow business. But if you want to up your velocity, why not go back to the future? That’s what Google did when it set out to rediscover its start-up roots – and find the holy grail of business speed. Kristen Gil, VP of Business Operations, explains how.
WORDS BY Kristen Gil
It feels like the internet has made us faster than ever, but are we in fact lagging behind the opportunities presented by technology?
WORDS BY Jeff Jarvis
The world’s most watched conversation was held between two baby boys in their new york kitchen. Their dad Randy McEntee tells the story of how his video reached Viral Velocity.
WORDS BY TQ Staff
Our brains make brand-influenced decisions at the speed of thought. Follow these five golden rules to make the selection process work for you.
WORDS BY Tjaco Walvis
Technology is progressing at an exponential rate, but are we thinking big enough to take advantage? Astro Teller, Google’s Director of New Products, is determined to rise to the challenge.
WORDS BY Astro Teller
Though our world is changing, the spaces in which we teach are stuck in a time warp. According to some forward-thinking experts, only by embracing new technology and ideas can twenty-first-century schooling stay up to speed with the kids.
WORDS BY Andrea Kurland
HTML5 is the new web language that promises to put the magic back into your digital marketing. Here’s what you need to know...
WORDS BY Caroline McCarthy
Herein are the recordings of celebrated ‘slowologist’ Professor Aldred Leatherworth – once lost, now found, and immortalized for posterity by The Daily Show writer Jo Miller.
WORDS BY Jo Miller
Are early adopters the key to marketing success? Or do they just distract us from the customers that really matter?
WORDS BY Cyrus Shahrad
Frank Stephenson designed the Ferrari F430, Maserati MC12 and the 2001 MINI. Now Design Director at UK supercar manufacturer McLaren Automotive, he shares the ideas, trends, and technologies driving his thinking.
WORDS BY Frank Stephenson
Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (better known as CERN), explains why the slow work of science is fundamental to our fast-moving world.
WORDS BY Matt Bochenski
Conventional wisdom suggests that speed to market is crucial to business success. But the history of Silicon Valley contains stories of second-placed competitors who ultimately triumphed over their speedier opponents. We go in search of insights from the archives.
WORDS BY Leslie Berlin
