Comments on: Games remote people can play

By: Impressing your friends as a motivator for excellence | Nerd Guru

Impressing your friends as a motivator for excellence | Nerd Guru — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:50:43 +0000

[...] lucky enough to find this in my own career. For me, that person is my friend Brian (inventor of Google Words). I’ve got about 4 years on him and, back in the day, thought I was a stud C++ programmer [...]

By: How do you optimize remote teams? | Nerd Guru

How do you optimize remote teams? | Nerd Guru — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:48:38 +0000

[...] some sense of team across those physical boundaries can be difficult and I’ve written before (Google Words, for example) of how great managers I’ve had have dealt with [...]

By: Process empowerment and team building through retrospectives | Nerd Guru

Process empowerment and team building through retrospectives | Nerd Guru — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:43:20 +0000

[...] Play Google Words. Given that we were having a meeting that worked best with everyone’s participation, we [...]

By: Pete Johnson

Pete Johnson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:26:00 +0000

A faithful reader pointed me to this:

http://www.googlefight.com/

Pretty cool.

By: Pete Johnson

Pete Johnson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:12:00 +0000

OK, maybe 15 min 8).

---Pete

By: Tac

Tac — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:47:00 +0000

Sounds fun but honestly…..how many times do you actually keep it to under 10 min