German publication Wirtschaftswoche )"Economy Week"( says that German manufacturer Microdrones has delivered a cam-equipped flying mini drone to Google. Microdrones boss Mr. Juerss is quoted as saying "We have good chances for a long term business relationship with Google" )is he just overly optimistic? Google wasn't available for comment to the magazine(.

Google's director of research Peter Norvig was interviewed by Slate : Google has been remarkably successful at creating popular products. How does the company create a culture that's conducive to generating new ideas? Well, we have great people, and that's a huge part of it. But I think the main thing is just trying a lot of ideas. We've built the ultimate system for making demos internally. If a startup company has an idea, it's like, "Well,

Google will kill off Google Wave, they told in a blog post . It was a technically very inspiring web app which, however, arrived without any particular and clear use case. This caused not only interface usability problems )Wave was good at allowing you to do a lot of things at once, but it often wasn't really good at anything in particular, e.g. plain chat when needed(. It also caused social frictions as people were using the tool with different, colliding expectations .