Google In Belgium
So google is plannnig to open a googleplex in Belgium, I`m still not sure if I like this or not.
My first reaction was that this is not good for the local startups and entrepreneurs as they won't be able to find highly skilled techies, as they would all be wanting to work for the big G. Well, not all of them but still.
When discussing that idea with Bob Young last week Bob gave me another look at the situation, Google will attract some of the brighter people in Europe and not all of them will like the culture there, which probably has changed over the years, some people won't fit in the strict Google organisation and create a whole new group of people that have moved into the area with their own ideas and skills.
There is one thing that doesn't fit here however and that's the language factor :(
But for developers and on the web that doesn't really matter, for local consultancy however it does.