[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Aug 12, 2006, at 10:27, Robert Spier wrote:

>> Well, Citysearch == Ticketmaster (and many other brands.)
>
> This is not true, and has not been true for many years.
>
> When I left, the companies shared a parent company and some corporate
> IT infrastructure (i.e. Exchange Servers and a few other things).
> That's pretty much it.

They share the Peets Coffee under the Citysearch office as  
well.  :-)   Despite what whois says they are neighbors across the  
street on Sunset Blvd.

On the original subject: <strike>Overture</strike> Yahoo Search  
Marketing is in Burbank and of course Google in Santa Monica have  
suckered a few people to come work there (even if they aren't much of  
a Perl shop).

My impression is that it's much more common to use LAMP-stuff for  
building web things here than than in Europe (and the rest of the  
world, maybe with the exception of Japan).

Maybe the bigger "local" market makes it easier to get forced away  
from Windows systems?


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