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Wanted to get more info out there on this Lenovo issue - very cool tablet (I’m impressed!), but weird problem.

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Area 51

For all of us X-Files fans… the real story is how the real goings-on have never been leaked or breached - because they stayed unplugged and USB ports were glued shut. 

Wow.

There’s a lesson here….

Before we get to virtualization of networks - like a VMWare for networks - we need a LINUX type evolution for network devices.

And that isn’t going to happen overnight.

There are huge install bases of customers for the smart technologies from Cisco, Juniper, etc.

But don’t expect them to sit out OpenFlow either.

The latest publicity snafu from Facebook this past week was their whisper campaign to smear Google with Google’s having violated some users’ privacy.

Hysterical. 

Especially coming from Facebook, the company whose leader was quoted not all that longer ago as stating that people don’t expect privacy on the internet. Yes, Zuckerberg said that.

Facebook is the company who allows 3rd party developers to access user information - even if you, as a Facebook user, block those applications, if one of your direct network friends is using the game, they’ve got your info, too.

And there’s so much more.

How do we continue ignoring the lack of integrity from the top of Facebook’s leadership? Lawsuits filed from some seemingly insiders… and the hair-raising tale of how he got started, taking others’ ideas and pushing them off while hacking an early competitor. This is leadership?

What do you think? Is this a company whose technology you want to leverage - and trust with your data?

It’s true - and, pitifully enough, necessary in this day when it’s all about “ruling the air” - getting search results and traffic to one’s site.

While humor or surprise might make for more entertaining - and interesting - headlines, the search engines have no sense of humor. To get indexed properly and ranked, your headline must be understandable to a piece of software. And that software doesn’t understand puns.

Headlines are especially problematic for journalists, but impact businesses writing blog posts also. Given that blogs are the new sales brochures, how do those of you doing business blogging handle your headlines to keep the search engine monsters happy?

While many cite that the world is much different now than it was in the 90s.  At that time, when the dot.com rage and IPOs began crumpling, the domino effect took down telecom and many other tech firms.

Now, with VCs and angels chasing the next “big thing”, the current over-exuberance in internet stocks - even private - is beginning to look like another bubble. 

How do you explain secondary-market valuations like:

• FACEBOOK: secondary-market trades value this firm at some $76 billion (more than Boeing or Ford).
• TWITTER: this company is allegedly valued at $7.7 billion - without a very clear revenue model as yet.
• COLOR: photo-sharing network with an untested service, recently raised $40M in an additional round of capital and is allegedly valued at $100M - with an untested service.

Without a firm’s offerings meeting a solid need, it’s questionable that some of the firms (not necessarily those above) will come anywhere near these stratospheric valuations. At some point, the bubble will have to break.

What do you think? Do any of these firms really meet business needs - or consumer needs - and have the leadership to pull off these kinds of expectations?

What firms are really helping with the consumerization of technology and moving business forward?

This is utterly fascinating and the real issue requires more study:

How did a pirated copy of this book’s PDF - which went viral - actually drive the book to the number one spot on Amazon. A month before its release!

This book would surely do well regardless, given the responsive chord it hits for so many parents (what parent hasn’t been exhausted, at some point, past the point of almost sanity, by a 2 - 3 year old?). But how the piracy is helping the success of the book, even pre-release, is astonishing.

The saga of the book’s conceptualization via Facebook and impact on publishing is well documented in this Fast Company article - a must read. 

While Facebook may look like a reasonable approach for some businesses to set up shop exclusively there, I disagree: One needs a separate internet presence under one’s own control, not subject to Facebook’s whims and never-ending security debacles.

As I wrote in my post on leveraging the internet offerings recently, one should maintain a core presence and extend it out through other offerings.

This doesn’t mean that one shouldn’t refresh or even overhaul one’s web presence and design - making it more interactive and/or responding to one’s market in other ways to maintain relevancy.

As always, it’s about the basics - and knowing what to focus on.

Success in leveraging Twitter for engaging with others means you’re present – not every moment, but checking in regularly and interacting. Sharing real content that’s meaningful within your industry…