Category: IO Impotency

Why Google Misses Opportunities: A Report Delivered by the Tweeter Thing

Here’s a Twitter thread from a Xoogler who appears to combine the best of the thumb typer generation with the bittersweet recognition of Google’s defective DNA. In the thread, the Xoogler allegedly a real person named Hemant Mohapatra reveals some nuggets about the high school science club approach to business on steroids; for example:   . . .

Did the Xoogler take some learnings from the Google experience? Sure did. Here’s the key tweeter thing message:

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Microsoft: Information Released Like a Gentle Solar Wind

I read the New Year’s Eve missive from Microsoft, a company which tries to be “transparent, “Microsoft Internal Solorigate Investigation Update.” I am not sure, but I think the Microsoft Word spell checker does not know that SolarWinds is not spelled Solarigate.   . . .

Microsoft is downplaying:

• Malicious code within Microsoft’s systems
• The code performed “unusual activity” whatever this actually means I don’t know
• The malicious code made it to MSFT source code repositories
• Whatever happened has allegedly been fixed up.

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Finding Google Maps: Sundar Pichai, I Presume?

The Google is not getting the respect it once assumed was its droit du seigneur. A recent example is this comment from “Google Maps’ Moat is Evaporating”:

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Phi Beta Iota: The first six of the twelve Apostles of Web 3.0 have all agreed that we must abandon all existing code including Microsoft and WordPress.

Internet 2021: Here's what the new year will (and won't) bring

Now more than ever we depend on the internet for work, school, and fun. Will the internet providers rise to the challenge? Probably not.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet

. . . as Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman and a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, said, we must recognize that the “internet is no longer ‘nice to have,' it is critical.”

Phi Beta Iota: This will be discussed in The Steele Report on 4 January. The future Web 3.0 Internet demands comprehensive data access and integrity, sense-making tools for the individual, individual sovereignty protections, AND a working global Internet that can meet the needs of rural impoverished users.

SolarWinds: One Interesting Message

I read “Wave of Cyberattacks Exposes the Powerlessness of IT Security Chiefs.” With all the hoohah about cyber superiority from government officials and commercial enterprises, one troubling fact is clear: If the advanced systems could not detect the attack nor could top secret security systems monitoring possible bad actors, the defensive and alerting methods are broken. The write up points out security focuses on a wide spread weak link:

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Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook

Apple Vs Facebook: Why are technically non-competitors at loggerheads?

What Are Apple And Facebook Fighting Over? — You

Facebook employees call out company’s hypocrisy in fight against Apple’s new privacy rules