How to sound like a Google insider
By Frank Barnako, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 9:49 AM ET Apr 30, 2004
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Bloggers have come to the aid of those who can't bring themselves to read the prospectus for the Google stock offering and lack their own spy networks in Silicon Valley.
Aaron Swartz, a self-described "teenage writer, coder and hacker," maintains a Google watch at Google Weblog: His latest post comes from a temporary worker, who described trying to eavesdrop on yesterday's company meeting about the stock offering. Afterward, "We grabbed someone we knew, who told us, 'I think we're doing the right thing.'"
Jason Calacanis, a serial Internet entrepreneur, sponsors The Unofficial Google Weblog - google.weblogsinc.com: as part of his Weblogs Inc. venture. Nino Marchetti, a freelance journalist in San Mateo, Calif., writes it. He watches for stories and information, often picking up bits and pieces the major media don't have.
Google Blogoscoped - About Me - Why a Google Blog?: is written by a 20-something-year-old German, Jan Philipp Lenssen. His day job is designing Web sites. Lenssen concentrates on the technology behind Google. His programming skills come in handy as he passes along links and tips on how he makes Google do even more.
Google IPO Central - Unofficial Site for Latest Investing and Stock Offering News has been reporting on its eponymous beat for eight months. Other sites for interested potential investors include Watching Google Like A Hawk - Google News Watch Site; We Love Google :: Google Rules!: "Google Fan", which reported that one of the company's founders drives a Toyota Prius; and � Google Indicateur: .
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