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The cyber world is a place of continuous change. Here new developments happen almost everyday. Currently a few new developments that have taken place in this cyber zone are centered on Google, which is the most popular search engine. Two of its main stalwarts have resigned. They are Douglas Bowman, and Priti Choksi. The former was a designer with the search engine and the latter was one of the directors of strategic partner development.
The reason behind Bowman’s resignation was the sites too much dependency on data. In his website Bowman has said that the search engine had a “design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.” He thought that this too much dependency on data has made it difficult for the company to make “any daring design decisions.”
Currently Bowman is with Twitter and he has joined this social media site as a Creative Director. According to his blogpost he is gearing up to satisfy the wide range of Twitter users with his creative vision that will give the site a look that is a combination of simplicity and user-friendly features. A person who has worked with Wired before joining Google it was a tough task to sacrifice creativity and bow to the somewhat boring practical data centrism.
This once again raises the age-old fight between pragmatism and creativity. This also shows that in the Internet world it often becomes quite difficult to balance the two. At the same time, some companies have to understand that to bring more variety and show more imagination they have to take risks that might not be supported by dry data.
Priti Choksi, on the other hand, has joined Facebook and from now on she will be the head of business development in that social media site. It was Ms Choksi who played a great role in distributing the Google Toobar. It is also sad that another reason behind her leaving Google is the lack of development in the company’s stock for past two years. She will be able to own some private share in her current company.
The cyber world also saw another search engine major Yahoo recruiting Bryan Lamkin who was an executive with Adobe earlier. He is going to replace Scott Dietzen. Lamkin will join Yahoo as an SVP. He will handle the application products department.
But the most significant news is that of the departure of Greg Linden from Microsoft. The reason of his leaving lies in the decision that the company took to wrap up a large part of its Live Labs. Finally, Mike Jones too has joined MySpace as the COO of the company. He was an executive in AOL.
All these may seem like too much for one weekend but this is how the things unfold in the cyber space. Most of the times they are sudden and unpredictable. That is why it needs more of our attention. The Internet and the search engines churn out revenues worth in billions and that is why a continuous watch on them is a must. So, we know what else is developing.