{"id":2280,"date":"2008-02-14T05:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/silicon-valley-sightings-the-palo-alto-egg\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T05:33:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:33:35","slug":"silicon-valley-sightings-the-palo-alto-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/silicon-valley-sightings-the-palo-alto-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Sightings: The Palo Alto Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/2192945582\/\" title=\"Silicon Valley Sightings: The Palo Alto Egg by jeremiah_owyang, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2202\/2192945582_7142ede445.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"365\" alt=\"Silicon Valley Sightings: The Palo Alto Egg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notable landmark right in front of Pizza My Heart, a few blocks from Facebook, and a brisk walk to Jeff Clavier&#8217;s office and Social Text lies the great green silicon valley egg.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltohistory.com\/digitaldna.html\">The Digital DNA project<\/a> is sponsored by Palo Alto&#8217;s Civic Art Gallery. This sculpture, which really is a great symbol of the birthplace of Silicon Valley (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/10\/silicon-valley-sightings-the-hp-garage\/\">The famed HP Garage is just a few blocks away<\/a>) reminds us of our humble start.<\/p>\n<p>When you get closer to this egg (which is now often surrounded by skaters and Stanford students) you&#8217;ll see that the egg is composed of computer boards, chips, and the occasional graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re visiting the bustling Palo Alto area, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1siliconvalley.com\/walking-tour-of-downtown-palo-alto\/\">here&#8217;s a great walking tour<\/a>, you&#8217;ll learn about the many landmarks and rich history.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I heard if you&#8217;re a budding entrepreneur, if you walk around the egg 10 times, it&#8217;ll bring you good luck.  Ok not really, I just made that up, but let&#8217;s see if it works, try it and let me know.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Silicon Valley Sightings is an ongoing PhotoBlog that captures the intersection of Tech Culture in the San Francisco Silicon Valley Bay Area, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/category\/silicon-valley-sightings\/\">check out the archives<\/a> (which now showcase some tech areas in Asia). All photos by Jeremiah Owyang)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notable landmark right in front of Pizza My Heart, a few blocks from Facebook, and a brisk walk to Jeff Clavier&rsquo;s office and Social Text lies the great green silicon valley egg. The Digital DNA project is sponsored by Palo Alto&rsquo;s Civic Art Gallery. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/silicon-valley-sightings-the-palo-alto-egg\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silicon Valley Sightings: The Palo Alto Egg<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silicon-valley-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}