5 Stories..5 Random Thoughts for 5 Nov 2010

Google #Fail

So Google Voice has been up and down all week. The same can be said with Google Buzz and Gmail too. Can’t post to Buzz, can’t refresh the feed. I think all of Google’s infrastructure has been f’ing up lately.  Maybe you should hire back all the Googlers who keep leaving for Facebook.

NY Jets

What is it with hot bitches and the NY Jets sideline?  Inaz Sines is now joined by Jenn Sterger as hot chick hanging out in the locker room and sidelines of NY Jet games. And you wonder why you get harassed?


Data “Trade War”

Stole that headline from Mike Arrington‘s post at Techcrunch because it’s apt for what is happening between Facebook and Google. Review: Google changed its terms of service for those who access its Contacts API. Essentially if you don’t share with them you can’t access there API. Dark clouds are forming and this could get ugly. Data as the new good and service of the future will start turf wars like this all over the web. Like capital flows across boundaries so does data across virtual boundaries via API calls. So in a way this is a textbook example of a trade war.

Social Media and the 2010 Elections

No matter whom you rooting for in this Tuesday’s elections one thing was evident, social media played a pivotal role in predicting the outcome.  With all the data produced from likes to retweets it was an easy tasks to predict U.S. House races with a nearly 70+% accuracy.  Even blatant attempts at austrturfing via Twitter show that social media has arrived. There were tons of maps mashups and real-time statistics that made this election the most social media centric election so far. I can’t wait to see what will happen in 2012.

U.S. Cyber Command “FOC”

I mean where the F was this command when I was in?  Seriously this is good to hear, but as a government contractor I can tell you exactly what this means. The contracts are in place (for the contractors and civilians to do the work) and the money is flowing.

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