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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

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

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.

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

First out of the blocks:

Caterham (nee Team Lotus) – are all the cars going to look this ugly at the front??

Here is a nice project that has been set-up to help people learn to code. Its currently a free resource and will no doubt grow in time. My thought however is that no matter how you dress up coding, it is still coding. People want products and easier ways to create them. I my opinion there is still quite some way to go in this market before people start offering the kinds of services that non-experts and non-coders demand.

This is a great piece on coding for kids, with a link to a youTube video of a 12 year old lad talking about his app development experience. It is a great lesson in presentation technique and is that how we are going to see the iPad used in future – as virtual notes?

So coding is the new value add skill. There remains a question in my mind however about what to apply these skills towards. That combination of coding skills and real need is, I feel, important – one goes hand-in-hand with the other. It is therefore important to remember this and also that there is a real world out there too.

Inspiring stuff.