Interesting Google-related email from my fraternity brother, David Krane (email him if you want the real story!) who leads Google's public communication efforts:
As you've all come to understand working and socializing with both [my wife] and me...Google plays a central roll in both of our lives (understatement of the day).
It's with great pleasure that I can finally send this message...the product of a number of months of hard work has just gone public -- a TIME Magazine cover story on Google, 2.20.06 ("In Search of the Real Google"). You'll see it on newsstands this week...the full text of both feature stories is below, in case you'd like to get an early peek at the coverage. It's a long, well-researched, balanced yet positive piece -- 11 pages, which is as long as anything TIME has ever included in the magazine. The printed version will be full of Googley photos, too.
This one definitely earns a spot as a "top 5" Google moment...!Enjoy! David
An amazing guy, and an amazing story of how he came out of Indiana University as a really creative, funny, insightful guy and landed one of the true dream jobs in the new 'flat earth' economy. And he still seems to be the same guy, although clearly positioned well to retire at any age he so desires. But couldn't be happier for him! The photo of him with Al Gore when the presidential candidate came to Google's headquarters a few years back was particularly charming, as was the 
Wall Street "Google Goes Public" moment where he stood front and center (actually on the left side of the front row, next to the woman in the white dress if you're keeping score on the homegame).
Few people ever get that sort of shot at greatness! Go check out his blog, too, to get a better read on his 'real' David Krane self -- plus, he actually gets to be at the TED Conference, lucky SOB!
Quick excerpt from the article he mentioned above:
It's time to make some big decisions, so the Google guys are slipping on their white lab coats. After eight years in the spotlight running a company that Wall Street values at more than $100 billion, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are still just in their early 30s and, with the stubbornness of youth, perhaps, and the aura of invincibility, keep doing things their way. So the white coats go on when it's time to approve new products. For a few hours, teams of engineers will come forward with their best ideas, hoping to dazzle the most powerful men in Silicon Valley. Google paid crazy money to...
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