A fascinating look at how a product...

... goes from idea to finished software. Amazing. AJAX solves everything now. Whew. Hey, do you remember when the idea for a business had to actually make money? Those were hard times, my friend, hard times.

The Anatomy of the Google Product Cycle - Valleywag: "Two googletards meet for Battlestar Galactica marathon on UPN but end up calculating their worth as the weekend stock price hovers around $415; after two epicurean Mike's Hard Lemonades, a message is sent to an internal developer list with an idea for (a) Google Base or (b) an old Yahoo/Microsoft product with a new AJAX interface."

BTW... yes, I know it is a joke. Sort-of.