Google Dance 2007 – Why is everyone at Google under 25 and cute?
Why is everyone at Google under 25 and cute?
OK, not everyone, but an alarming concentration of smart, young, hot people seem to work at Google in a way that seems like a scene from the Stepford Wives.
One Tuesday August 21, I hit the Google Dance party with my friend Sharon Lin, another tech event junkie. Google Dance was THE party of Search Engine Strategies San Jose conference. Google has lots of money, so we figured the party had to be good. Indeed, it was much like a tricked-out college frat party for the technorati.
Google went all out on the party entertainment.
Rows of video games graced the main building.
Geeks and games go hand in hand.
Pool anyone?
How about volleyball?
You can even star in your own music video.
Got a sweet tooth? Here’s some free candy for ya.
We gawked, bopped around, ate, talked to people, and I took pictures. Little did I know that Big Brother was watching.
Todd Malicoat, David Mihm, Daniel Riveong
These photos are stealth because I spent much of the night snapping away photos of the tripped out scene at the Google campus blissfully ignorant of Google regulations, until I was busted by a passionate, underage Googler in a green Google dance T-Shirt that took his job way too seriously.
“Are you an official Google photographer?”
“Ummmm, no.”
“Then, why are you taking photos?” he barked, eyeing my professional Canon camera, suspiciously.
“Ummm, I’m a blogger”
“You can’t go around taking photos unless you’re with staff.”
“Oh, OK – then do I get a T-shirt, then?”
“NO!”
I looked around nervously holding my camera, while drunk Google dance revelers snapped photos all around me with their flashing little digital cameras for tourists.
Apparently, you can’t be taking photos without the official escort by a member of Google’s Communications team. How lame and spontaneity-killing. “OK, then make sure he’s cute.”
Dude looked furious. A young, cute Asian boy with a red Google Dance T-Shirt materialized (red represented the Corporate Communications department) and my antagonist stormed off.
It brings me back to the days when I lived in Communist China, in 1996. I wandered the Google campus under the watchful eye of my youthful guide from the Google Politburo.
“So, why don’t you tell me what’s interesting around here – what SHOULD I be taking photos of?”
The kid really didn’t know.
“Why is everyone at Google under 25 and cute?” He didn’t know the answer to that one either.
My creative juices were being seriously hampered by this kid hovering around. I dismissed him, and continued taking pictures, in stealth mode this time.
[tags]google, google dance, ses 2007, search engine strategies san jose, todd malicoat, david mihm, daniel riveong, neal kido, lorna li[/tags]
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August 27th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I saw some funny coverage on this event here: http://bub.blicio.us/?p=355