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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Stealing MySpace Stealing MySpace Julia Angwin A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, d… OL11967208W
Dot.con Dot.con John Cassidy Presents a history of the Internet stock market boom and inevitable crash, focusing on the role played by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, Wall Street analysts, journalists, and policy makers. OL13786460W
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook Ben Mezrich The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard unde… OL14924461W
The art of immersion The art of immersion Frank Rose This book is a field guide to the visionaries and the fans who are reinventing the art of storytelling. Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and… OL15998849W
Goodbye iSlave Goodbye iSlave Jack Linchuan Qiu "Welcome to a brave new world of profit making, propelled by high technology, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of workers. These millions of bodies gather in giganti… OL19711356W
Site Reliability Engineering Site Reliability Engineering Niall Richard Murphy,Betsy Beyer,Jones, Chris (Computer engineer),Jennifer Petoff Members of the SRE team explain how their engagement with the entire software lifecycle has enabled Google to build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. OL20028554W
Chaos monkeys Chaos monkeys Antonio García Martínez "The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of… OL20032373W
Digital Hustlers Digital Hustlers Casey Kait,Stephen Weiss E-book exclusive: Interview with Dennis Adamo, former executive producer of the former Pseudo.The commercial and cultural explosion of the digital age may have been born in California's Silicon Valle… OL277222W
A Perfect life A Perfect life Joel Spring "Jimmy Clark is the poster child for the World Government's promise to provide everyone with a perfect life. In this satire of a dystopian future the 300 highest-earning global corporations control t… OL28169213W
E-preneur E-preneur Richard J. Goossen By getting direct involvement from their customers, you can generate ideas, market test new products and create brand advocates more effectively and efficiently than by using traditional methods, e-p… OL5032792W
The Search The Search John Battelle How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture• The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller• Finalist for the Goldman Sachs/FT Business Book of the Year A… OL8982019W
Planet Google Planet Google Randall E. Stross A revelation-packed investigatory expose about the most disruptive, transformative company of the Web 2.0 era: Google. OL9740753W