Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by mynewwork on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:11PM (#6225317)

How much innovation has come out of San Diego, LA, Fresno or Sacramento? How many tech workers moved to silicon valley from somewhere else after college?

I'm not sure 'California mindset' is the right way of framing the innovation inside silicon valley.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by digikata on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:11PM (#6225737)

San Diego is something of a Silicon Valley for genetics and other life sciences, LA is/was something of a hub for aerospace and arguably movie technology (it's more diversified now, but does have a Silicon Beach movement).

I'm not sure what objective measurement one could use to really determine "innovation", maybe economic activity from industries or products established within the last x years?

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by cpeterso on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:21PM (#6225800)

And Qualcomm is headquartered in San Diego.

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