For me Maps is consistently less accurate than Google Maps. However, the Google Maps UI bothers me just the same as everyone else here. I'm hoping that the improvements continue to roll in on Apple's version, because I'd much rather just use theirs.

I've always found this to be an interesting topic. See here for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY . The argument made there is basically that death (human aging, at any rate) is a sort of condition, or disease, if you will, like any other, that could be solved if we plied it with enough resources.

Maybe the real question is where on the scale the extension to life happens? If we keep reaching adulthood, and then elderly, more inhibited lifestyles at the same ages, just prolonging the elderly state via good medical practices, that's one thing. But if we could slow aging in general to extend younger and middle-aged sections of life, that'd be another thing altogether.

Eh, misleading article title. It's interesting to see an Alexa use case with local governments, but it's really a showcase of that and not a general piece on Alexa and data mining.

A smaller company (especially high growth) would be my choice any day. I currently work for a smaller, high growth startup, and I prefer it a thousand fold to the experiences in industry giant companies like MS or Google. The bad would outweigh the good, to me. No doubt there is good - the name recognition on your resume, the experience on big products with big-name hitters - but no, even that wouldn't outweigh the burdens of the bigger corporate employment, at least not for me.

A smaller startup / company can get things done faster, give you more experience in potentially more areas and more types of projects. If it's a high growth company it probably will make a fairly good resume item anyway.

The only caveat is that you have said: "who wants a corporate career" -- if by "corporate" you mean larger mega-companies, than of course, your choice should be Google.

Absolutely. If a going concern can't make time for blogging and other similar ventures, they're not staffed appropriately for their success!

If your marketing strategy requires depends entirely upon your market not knowing they're being marketed to, or your competitors not knowing who you're marketing to, there's something wrong with the strategy.

It's similar logic in the security industry to the idea of security by obscurity alone.