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530am start, 9c degrees, listening to Hughesy pre-show with my vegemite toast and caffeine (did u know google spend $7530 per annum per employee on food) before heading off to Melbourne for a day of structured meets unstructured search of user and professional content and commerce in said vertical. I'm watching the Mahalo audition interviews (Mahalo Vlog Idol) which JC thinx is a gr8 marketing technique. ("$250,000 investment in the Mahalo Daily a year will bring in.. somewhere between 15-30M viewers a year.") Speaking of vid, u can now leave video comments using seesmic on wordpress blogs, well there's a plugin anyways. Also looks like Podshow with its tens of millions of dollars have conceded its loss in the space to The tens of dollars Podcast Network. Podshow now has one of those 6 figure ad agency lets do an offsite and order sandwiches and regress into brand essences, the outcome of it is : Podshow is now Mevio. (Mevio is not even mentioned on curry.com with podshow mentions still front and centre) At least some domain seller got rich. Oh, and im downloading the new gossip girl for tonite, and trying to get the 1.3 alert thingy download to work. Poor Amy...

Update : Leonard Lin has provided some counterpoint numbers on google's food per FTE numbers, and posited a 50% ROI for google's investment. His model estimates the productivity gain in having people at their desks not down at jamba juice (or walking the streets at night as my ma used to call it) :

9,000 employees * 251 days * 1 hour * $50 = $113M

Via random($foo) : "If it does cost $75M (again, we'll use the worst case number, even if it's more likely 70% of that), we're talking about a 50% return on investment."