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Linked List: March 10, 2007

Saturday, 10 March 2007

NYT Feature on Google’s Bus System ★

The New York Times profiles Google’s employee transit system — which covers more miles than BART and is perhaps the company’s most popular perk:

Google will not discuss the cost of the program, which it operates through Bauer’s Limousine, a private transportation company in San Francisco. But the shuttles appear to be having the desired effect on recruiting. Michael Gaiman, a 23-year-old Web applications engineer who lives in San Francisco and was recently hired, said he turned down an offer from Apple before accepting the job at Google. “It definitely was a factor,” Mr. Gaiman said of the shuttle.

Unofficial SXSW Other Side Guide ★

Unofficial guide and schedule to the SXSW Film and Interactive panels and events; the daily schedules seem more useful to me than those on SXSW.com. (I leave for Austin tomorrow.)

Payment Processing With PayPal and Ruby ★

$8.50 PDF e-book by Joe Fair, published by the Pragmatic Programmers. Might be useful even if you don’t program in Ruby, just to get a clear, concise guide to PayPal’s APIs and payment services.