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A great infographic on the current social media “landscape”.

Here is a nice sketch of what success looks like. It is VERY relevant to my life at the moment – couldn’t have come at a better time!

Credit: Babs Rangaiah @babs26

Now this is cool:

In a few years, we can expect faster broadband speeds (like 1000MB/sec!), wirelessly and everywhere. Interesting …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9672822.stm

This is staggering … jump to 50 secs in this BBC film:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16832378

Here is a link to the Facebook IPO filing:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512034517/d287954ds1.htm

It makes for compelling, if long!, reading.

As someone starting out on the journey, like I am, then what amazes me is how much of the business still remains in the hands of Mark. Its around 60%, even given all of the funding rounds (5) the business has been through.

As a nice story, its good to see his Dad, the original backer, getting recognised in the share allocation – even though he messed up on activating his share options within the original 12 month window.

I guess when you have something that good you dictate the terms.

Although all the business advice says don’t do it, I like the way engineers just go ahead and develop new technology without knowing the market potential in advance.

In that vein, I like what Google are developing in these rumoured augmented reality googles, which are discussed here:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/real-augmented-reality-google-goggles-in-prototype-stage/?grcc=33333Z98

I even have a few pressing applications for it, right now – if only Google would get in touch …

I am not a big fan of too many of the “10 ways to …” or “25 golden secrets for success” type posts. This one caught my eye though – 3 metrics any buddying entrepreneur should know:

http://www.inc.com/don-rainey/three-numbers-all-entrepreneurs-should-know.html

I like the simplicity of this and the fact its focuses the mind on tangible yet meaningful metrics. Saying that I have never been a fan of the % allocation to the sales pipeline figures but maybe that is because I have been mainly involved in consultative style business to business sales which have a slower frequency rate to more high volume consumer product sales.

The concept of pricing how many customers you can afford to go after at any one time is really quite powerful.

Let me know your thoughts too.

A great link here to a zoomable annotated look at all things large and small. A little US focused but quite fascinating to put lots of things in context – and apparently you can’t see the Great Wall of China from space! Enjoy:

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_of_the_universe_2012

Maybe this is a nice idea. Can’t help thinking nature and touch gets lost somewhere here. Nice vision though.