Phone Computing a 'Fundamental Shift' - Vic Gundotra

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/03/A_Conversation_with_Vic_Gundotra

Vic Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google, discusses why he left Microsoft to join Google. He explains how his daughter's simple question caused him to rethink the future of computing.

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Vic Gundrota, Vice President of Engineering at Google, talks with Tim O'Reilly about the future of mobile computing.

They discuss several of Google's upcoming projects, as well as how application development is changing according to an increasingly mobile world. - Web 2.0 Expo

Vic Gundotra joined Google in 2007 as a Vice President of Engineering, responsible for developer evangelism and open source programs. He also oversees applications development. Previously, Gundotra spent 15 years at Microsoft, where he worked on a variety of products and operating systems, including Windows 3.0, NT, Windows XP, and Vista. He was recognized by MIT as a Young Innovator under 35 for his work in sparking the Microsoft's change from Win32 to the .NET programming model.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. O'Reilly's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. O'Reilly is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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[beetz15s]

accessible to the wealthy

[JonBj2]

@TheNilesLeshProject No, he was talking about that it's a way of finding information, if you actually don't know the answer you can't just use your brain, you've got to search for the answer, google helps with that.

[vishworks]

He's the same guy (the one who is being interviewed by Tim) who played host to Conan O' Brien in Google/Youtube. He made a complete ass of himself

[ke422azn]

@arifkarim He also has a wife and is a millionaire. What did your non-nerdiness get you?

[arifkarim]

He is a nerd!

[alindividual]

hahaha. god we are all fucked

[TheNilesLeshProject]

My phone my brain, thanks google... don't think, just google it

Daddy where's your brain ?

Google has already convinced a few billion people that Googlwe is the internet, Now they are convincing 4 year olds that goolge is their brain

[faszika]

we are robot

[sugarpuddin88]

Yahoo with its instant messenger replete with video was too ignorant to know what it had..

Corporations are not particularly smart nor creative - So they have to "buy up" other peoples ideas

This guy is another corp idiot

[m0nkeybl1tz]

What makes him a moron?