On: How Google Got its New Look

[timcederman]

Most of those details are hashed out at a daily "stand-up" meeting of roughly 10 people, held at 4:07 p.m. (Google co-founder Sergey Brin once estimated that it took seven minutes to walk across the Google campus; it's now company tradition that meetings end on the hour and new ones start seven minutes later.)

Um, what? This isn't something I've heard of.

[enomar → timcederman]

I've heard that on multiple occasions from Googlers.

[timcederman → enomar]

While I don't work at Google, I have dozens of Googler friends and none have ever mentioned this.

I spoke to a couple today, in addition to asking my wife. All said they'd never heard of it.