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Just saying hello to the friendly folks at meebo, who today celebrated their very first baby. meebo is the baby of a classmate of mine, Seth and his co-founders Elaine and Sandy. It was quite a nice gathering at the meebo HQ in downtown Palo Alto and it reminded me again on how many Stanford GSBers are still in the area.

At Google alonem, 8 of my classmates have started and for whatever weird reason I see another one of my classmates walking around the Google campus nearly every day. Must be the great food we’re getting over there.

It’s been a hectic but exciting week. Having been in business school at Stanford for the past two years, this is upping the ante on speed, performance, excitement and I’m sure - personal development.

This Tuesday (Monday was labour day) I started in Google’s Mobile team as a Product Marketing Manager, covering their consumer products, from Search over SMS to GMail and beyond. While many will now come to me and expect all the nighty gritty about the company - I won’t be able to give you that - I’d be way too busy for that, because you never know what legal implementations anything you say has when you are talking about a public company (doesn’t have to be Google). Therefore there also won’t be info about unannounced products (d’oh), expected earnings (how would I know) or general stock or please-hire-me tips. Furthermore, I want to stress that (BEGIN LEGAL) this is my personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer. (/LEGAL END)

I understand this might disappoint one or two of you readers - but hey - that’s life
Anyways - to make things a little less boring, here are some facts:

- Google supports more than 100 interface languages

- As of June 30th, 2006 there were 7,942 full-time employees worldwide

- and yes: Googlers in Mountain View alone consume 500 lbs. of breakfast cereal each day

One of the irregularly recurring series of the blog will be focussing on cool, unusual or sometimes even just touristy places to see around the Bay and the world. Kicking off the series will of course be in honor of my alma mater: Stanford University.

Stanford is not just the first place to mention because I loved it there, but also because the Stanford campus is one of the most beautiful university campuses in the United States.

Palm trees line the whole campus including Stanford’s famous Palm Drive

Memorial Church - or MemChu - was built in the late 19th and early 20th century and nearly destroyed only a few years later in the great 1906 Earthquake. By the way - this picture is one of the regularly featured sceneries photographed at the digicam website dcresource.com among other Stanford vistas.

The Main Quad - heart of the campus.
By the way - to check out more images from the Bay Area and other cool places, such as Istanbul, London or Los Angeles - check out the Galleries section at waschbusch.com.