By amit
Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google as their first cafeteria chef in 1999.
Though Charlie is no longer an employee of Google, he owns 40k shares of GOOG and that are alone worth $26 million.
He also had plans to write a cookbook titled "Revealing the Secrets of the Google Kitchen" – that never happened but Chef Charlie is now busy consulting tech companies on deciding good food for their employees.
Update: Chef Charlie Ayers wife Kimberly just informed that the Cookbook is happening. It will be released in April/May of 2008. Also, Charlie is opening a restaurant in May/June of 2008.
Read more about Google Chef Charlie on NYTimes or watch this video on "How much is the Google chef worth?" at MSNBC News.
[Charlie Ayers - From managing the Google kitchen to managing millions]
By amit
Blogs that are on Blogger, WordPress or TypePad can now add the wonderful outbrain star ratings widget to their blog posts.
This ratings widget has been under a closed beta for some time but they finally made a public release today.
It’s light, requires no registration and very intuitive – visitors can hover the mouse over the five stars and click any of them to rate your current blog post.
Even if you have a regular website that’s not a blog, this ratings widget can be installed on your site as well.
You need such a rating widget to get feedback from all those reader who are subscribed to your blog aren’t contributing to the discussion because they are probably too lazy to write a comment.
Give them a system like this ratings widget that requires no effort and they’ll be happy to say if enjoyed or disliked reading your blog post.
Get Ratings Widget here. Developer Blog is here. If you are using Windows Live Writer to insert ratings in your blog posts, make sure you remove the link breaks from javascript else this may not work.
