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    Like the classical city of Sparthens

    In BusinessWeek's latest article on Marissa Mayer (yes! another!), the Google senior VP trips lightly over the cliff of metaphor and lands on the rocks of absurdity. Either her fictional schedule finally got to her, or her brain's gone unwired:

    One is what I would call the "San Angeles" or "Los Diego" strategy. You take large product and merge them together into the biggest possible nucleus. So if you took San Diego and Los Angeles together and merged them into one mega-city, that's even bigger and more memorable than the two cities independently.

    Wha?

    Inside Google's New-Product Process [BusinessWeek]
    Marissa Mayr [Esther Dyson, Flickr]


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