Never Lost Again

Bill Kilday’s twenty-five-year career in technology and game marketing has centered on maps and augmented reality. He served as marketing director for digital mapping start-up Keyhole, and marketing lead for Google’s Geo division during the launch of Google Maps and Google Earth. He is currently VP of marketing for Niantic Inc., a spinout company from Google responsible for GPS-based games Ingress, Pokémon GO, and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The youngest of eight children, Kilday was born in Houston, Texas, and now lives in Austin, Texas, with his family. He has a terrible sense of direction.

出版者:HarperBusiness

作者:[美] Bill Kilday

页数:368

出版时间:2018-5-29

价格:USD 8.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780062673046

图书标签:商业Google创业互联网传记google-map经典biography

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As enlightening as The Facebook Effect, Elon Musk, and Chaos Monkeys—the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised, and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how we navigate the world

Never Lost Again chronicles the evolution of mapping technology—the "overnight success twenty years in the making." Bill Kilday takes us behind the scenes of the tech’s development, and introduces to the team that gave us not only Google Maps but Google Earth, and most recently, Pokémon GO.

He takes us back to the beginning to Keyhole—a cash-strapped startup mapping company started by a small-town Texas boy named John Hanke, that nearly folded when the tech bubble burst. While a contract with the CIA kept them afloat, the company’s big break came with the first invasion of Iraq; CNN used their technology to cover the war and made it famous. Then Google came on the scene, buying the company and relaunching the software as Google Maps and Google Earth. Eventually, Hanke’s original company was spun back out of Google, and is now responsible for Pokémon GO and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.

Kilday, the marketing director for Keyhole and Google Maps, was there from the earliest days, and offers a personal look behind the scenes at the tech and the minds developing it. But this book isn’t only a look back at the past; it is also a glimpse of what’s to come. Kilday reveals how emerging map-based technologies including virtual reality and driverless cars are going to upend our lives once again.

Never Lost Again shows us how our worldview changed dramatically as a result of vision, imagination, and implementation. It’s a crazy story. And it all started with a really good map.

读后感

为什么那么多废话？ 我拿出了东芝某某系列电脑，我被困在了某个空调开的很足的房间，某某怀孕七个月了，去哪个团体吃饭就会被列入穷困名单 为什么要这么多废话？ 大概看了几页，没看到有收获的地方，满篇废话，当然也可能是我欣赏不来，太急功近利了。但是真的废话太多了，真的...

作者比尔是Google的第2488号员工，主营工作是Google地图的营销负责人。 作为营销从业者，作者基本是我见过的最不会吹嘘自己的人了。他经常在字里行间表现出当年的迷茫，怯懦，甚至鸡贼。 营销在大部分互联网公司中基本都是属于中台，从来就不属于“业务部门”，甚至还会被边缘...  

为什么那么多废话？ 我拿出了东芝某某系列电脑，我被困在了某个空调开的很足的房间，某某怀孕七个月了，去哪个团体吃饭就会被列入穷困名单 为什么要这么多废话？ 大概看了几页，没看到有收获的地方，满篇废话，当然也可能是我欣赏不来，太急功近利了。但是真的废话太多了，真的...

用户评价

Google maps背后一个关键团队的进化史。彩蛋：这个团队后来从Google spin off成立了一家叫Niantic的游戏公司，开发了Pokemon Go

Google maps背后一个关键团队的进化史。彩蛋：这个团队后来从Google spin off成立了一家叫Niantic的游戏公司，开发了Pokemon Go

从google maps的前世今生也是侧面写了tech industry的变化，不愧是marketing的人写的，有点点玛丽苏，好多次黑marissa mayer，也讲了早期很多grinding的故事，以及一些政治斗争

A fun read about Google Maps

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