Google to open 'Google Ideas' global technology think tank - Google 24/7. Hoping to apply technology solutions to solve the world's problems, Google is hiring Washington technology insider Jared Cohen. Jared Cohen in 2007. Image Credit: Washington Life Magazine A rumor surfaced last month which put Washington insider Jared Cohen on the fast track to Google-dom. Cohen is famous for his work as 'Twitterer in Chief' of the State department where he has lasted through two administrations. He's a fascinating fellow. Cohen was hired during the Bush Administration by Condoleezza Rice's State Department's policy planning staff at age 24, just after getting his M.Phil at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Since then, he has become an incredibly well connected and well traveled diplomat versed in '21st Century Statecraft'. We've been told that Cohen is busy building a new entity for Google which is tentatively called Google Ideas.
Another source tells us that Cohen's current boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is aware of his impending departure. Image Credit: Stanford. Clinton dines with top tech executives. What an interesting dinner last night in the most exclusive section of the State Department, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited some of Silicon Valley's top innovators into her private space for a candid, off-the-record evening of food and conversation. You can just imagine the scene. The tech entrepreneurs, taken out of their high tech offices to dwell in the ornate museum that constitutes the private digs of the secretary, forced to discard their usual work attire of blue jeans and T-shirts to get all dressed up for the occasion. Clinton and her top-tier staff, relieved to have some company not of the wonky, Washington clique, excited to have some fresh faces in Foggy Bottom.
"Suffice to say, it was not the typical dinner on the 8th floor," said one attendee, who related that Clinton seemed really enthusiastic and engaged in the talk and she even joked about the uniqueness of the event. U.S. Innovation Delegation to Visit Russia February 17-23, 2010. First State Department "New Media Technology" Delegation Travels to Iraq.