Quote: One could, if one was a Google hater, misconstrue this message as evidence of Google sucking as a company, being doomed to fail. But that would be the wrong way to read it. Yegge isn’t saying that Google is clueless and the rest of the big five (Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon) are not. He’s saying that this is one really important thing that they understand and Google still doesn’t.

Quote: Are you consciously making your marketing-IT organizational decisions? Or do they just happen by ‘accident?’ Of course, it helps to know what your choices are. With that in mind, I thought I”d try to assemble a list of the different marketing technology organizational models that I”ve encountered: