As a weather observer, his job was to plot synoptic maps and launch wind balloons into the deep blue North African sky.
Prior to co-founding Polyvore, Jess was a product manager at Google, where she worked on Google Maps and launched features like My Maps and draggable driving directions.
The event typically kicks off with a keynote by CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlining Facebook's philosophy, long-term road map and new product launches.
A former journalist, Drinkwater's CV includes a senior role at Google Maps and she launched Campus for Mums just as a "side project".
Hamilton accepted responsibility for his near stall on the grid: "I hadn't hit the switch early enough and therefore we were not in the launch map and went straight into anti-stall, and when everyone else was in their launch mode, I wasn't".
Facts and figures do not make a war and neither do fat Field Marshals with medals for their patriotic services (which include moving pins around on a map all day and launching the odd suicide mission).
We've heard but haven't confirmed that he and CEO Tom Costello just couldn't agree on the Cuil product road map, and that the botched launch didn't help things much either.
Now that the company has integrated photo uploads into the Google Maps mobile apps and launched its Local Guides program, Panoramio clearly isn't a priority for the company anymore.
Google has two approaches to addressing these problems: sending mapmakers out into the wilderness with Street View cameras attached to backpacks, bikes, boats or snowmobiles, and launching Map Maker, a tool created in 2008 that allows anyone anywhere to enhance existing Google maps.
What's more, the user community has embraced NavFree: we have received more than 70,000 updates to the maps and routes since launch, which is more than 80 per hour, day and night.
