Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords? Perfect!

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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I was indignant and horrified for ten seconds when I heard that employers were requiring job applicants to supply their Facebook passwords during the selection process. Then I realized that if employers do that, it will be a wonderful way to signal to job-seekers, “Don’t Work Here.” I only hope that these employers make it clear in their help-wanted ads that they’re requiring FB passwords from job applicants, so that the job-seekers don’t waste time filling out applications and sending resumes to toadish organizations that don’t deserve them.

If you have an ounce of faith in your company’s leadership, would you really believe that you can’t hire good employees without digging into their personal lives via back-end access to their Facebook accounts? How paranoid would an organization have to be, to doubt its own managers’ instincts so severely that it doesn’t trust them to hire smart people without resorting to KGB-type snooping tactics?

When you apply for a job, the employer has a lot of ways to check you out already.

They see your resume. They see your LinkedIn profile, and the endorsements on it and the people you’re connected to. (You need one, in my opinion, if you don’t have one already.) They can talk to you over the phone, and then can meet you in person, multiple times. They can talk to your past employers. They can pose real-life business problems to you. They can get you to create a writing sample.

What else do they need? If they can’t make a decision about you by interacting with you, your branding materials and other people who know you, they’re already way too obtuse to get any value from invading your Facebook account.

There are people who shouldn’t be involved in the hiring process in any way, and way too many of those people are hiring managers and HR people. If they say they need your FB account to make the decision on whether or not to hire you, they’re too stupid to be managing people. You don’t have time to work among people like that.

It’s brilliant that the worst employers, the most fear-based and uncreative ones, are adopting the employer-branding signal “We require FB login information from our applicants.” That is an employer brand sure to bring them the fearful, please-the-boss-above-all sorts of applicants they seek. The more clearly an organization conveys the message “We talk about talent, but have no actual talent in the building” the better for everyone else — the human, talent-worthy organizations and the job-seekers, both.


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New Yahoo CEO sweeps out 2000 employees in purge

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo’s turnaround attempt is going to be messy.

In his first three months on the job, CEO Scott Thompson has imposed the largest layoffs in the company’s 17-year history, reshaped the board of directors, picked a potentially disruptive fight with a major shareholder and sued Facebook for patent infringement.

He says there’s even more upheaval to come.

Thompson delivered a painful jolt Wednesday with a payroll purge of about 2,000 workers, or about 14 percent of Yahoo’s 14,100 employees. The cuts will save about $375 million annually as Yahoo tries to boost its earnings and long-slumping stock price.

More shakeups loom as Thompson reshuffles divisions and considers selling an online ad-placement service and other operations that don’t fit into his strategy.

Those potential changes will follow a tumultuous time for Thompson, an affable and well-respected executive who held the top job at eBay Inc.’s thriving PayPal service before being lured away to help salvage Yahoo.

Thompson “definitely seems to be taking a very broad and bold view of what needs to be done at Yahoo,” said Standard Poor’s Capital IQ analyst Scott Kessler. “He seems to know it isn’t going to be easy and it isn’t going to be pleasant.”

The specifics of Thompson’s vision are still unclear. In comments to analysts and reporters, he has talked generally about doing a better job of analyzing the data that Yahoo collects about its 700 million monthly visitors. That would help the company sell ads and develop mobile services to connect with the growing number of people surfing the Web on smartphones and tablet computers.

Once an Internet trendsetter, Yahoo has been outmaneuvered and outsmarted by Google and Facebook in the race for online advertising. Although Yahoo’s website remains a popular destination, people have been spending less time there and dwelling longer on Google services and on Facebook.

That shift has made Yahoo less attractive to advertisers, a problem that has been compounded by the company’s inability to target marketing messages at the right audience as precisely as Google and Facebook.

After announcing the layoffs Wednesday, Thompson promised to share more details about his plans April 17, when Yahoo Inc. is scheduled to release its quarterly earnings.

“We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities,” Thompson said Wednesday in a statement. “Our goal is to get back to our core purpose — putting our users and advertisers first. And we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal.”

Investors haven’t been buying into Thompson’s vision so far, partly because his predecessors have made and broken similar promises. Thompson is Yahoo’s fourth full-time CEO in less than five years — a period marked by steady declines in revenue, even though more advertising has been shifting to the Internet.

Yahoo shares gained 9 cents Wednesday to close at $15.27. The stock price has dropped by 6 percent since Yahoo announced Thompson’s hiring in early January. The downturn leaves Yahoo more vulnerable to takeover offers from potential suitors who might prize Yahoo’s brand and its popular news, finance and entertainment services. Yahoo shares have not traded above $20 in more than 3½ years.

As traumatic as the job cuts may be for laid-off workers, Kessler says Yahoo needed to prune its payroll to show Wall Street that the company can be run more efficiently than it has been in recent years.

Last year, Yahoo produced revenue of $353,000 per employee while its two biggest rivals, Internet search leader Google Inc. and social networking leader Facebook Inc., each generated $1.2 million per employee.

Other major technology companies were also far more productive: Microsoft Corp. had about $800,000 in revenue per employee last year, while Intel Corp. posted $540,000 in revenue per employee, according to SP’s data.

Yahoo’s housecleaning marks the company’s sixth mass layoff in four years. This one will inflict the deepest cuts yet, eclipsing a cost-cutting spree that laid off 1,500 workers in late 2008 as Yahoo tried to cope with the Great Recession.

After some of its previous reductions, Yahoo eventually hired more workers to fill newly created positions. Thompson indicated Yahoo won’t be restoring many jobs, saying he is striving to create a smaller and more nimble company to compete against Google and Facebook. It’s a battle that Yahoo has been losing as its annual revenue has fallen from a peak of $7.2 billion in 2008 to $5 billion last year.

The financial decay, coupled with Thompson’s changes, could make it increasingly difficult to retain the best workers.

“You have to wonder why any employee that is any good would stay at this point,” said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. “Will Thompson have the horses he needs to reach his goals?”

Even before Thompson arrived, some of Yahoo’s most talented employees were defecting to other jobs.

Meanwhile, Google and Facebook are hiring even more engineers and sales representative to develop new products and sell more ads. Google added 8,000 employees last year, and Facebook recently moved to sprawling headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., in anticipation of tripling its current workforce of about 3,200 people within the next few years.

Besides employee morale issues, Thompson also will have to deal with a disgruntled shareholder during the next few months.

Activist investor manager Daniel Loeb, who controls a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo through a hedge fund called Third Point LLC, thinks he can help the company bounce back if he and three of his allies are allowed on the board of directors. Thompson told Loeb he wasn’t the best-qualified candidate for the board, although he says Yahoo was willing to work with Third Point to find two mutually acceptable directors.

Loeb is now attacking Thompson and the rest of Yahoo’s board in a campaign to persuade the company’s shareholders to elect him and three other alternative candidates as directors. If a truce isn’t reached, the dispute will be revolved in a shareholder vote at Yahoo’s annual meeting, which probably won’t be held until June, at the earliest.

Loeb described the layoffs as “unfortunately necessary” but criticized Thompson for imposing them without explaining how he intends to revive Yahoo’s revenue growth.

“Many of Yahoo’s senior-level employees and investors have apparently seen enough and heard too little,” Loeb said in a statement.

Thompson alienated much of Silicon Valley by suing Facebook as the social networking company is trying to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock expected to be completed next month. The lawsuit accuses Facebook of infringing on 10 of Yahoo’s Internet patents.

Facebook denied the allegations and retaliated with a patent-infringement lawsuit against Yahoo.

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TechBits: Facebook energy app, Dell’s cloud acquisition, UAE Internet …

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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Facebook, the Natural Resources Defense Council, energy information software maker Opower and 16 U.S. utilities launched the free app on Tuesday. The app connects your energy utility to your Facebook account, with your permission, and posts your energy usage each month.

This being Facebook, the app urges competition among friends to see who has the most energy-efficient home. It also compares your energy use to similar homes in your area, as well as homes that are considered energy-efficient.

Participating utilities include National Grid in New York and Massachusetts, Austin Utilities in Minnesota and City of Palo Alto Utilities in California.

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Dell buys Clerity in latest bet on cloud computing

ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell has bought business software company Clerity Solutions, the PC maker’s latest bet on cloud computing.

The Round Rock, Texas, company did not say Tuesday how much it was paying for Clerity.

Cloud computing is meant to save money and space by letting businesses keep their technology in far-flung data centers rather than on individual machines on-site. Workers can then retrieve computer programs and documents from any device that’s connected to the Internet.

Clerity’s technology helps companies migrate from older computer networks to new IT systems, including cloud computing. Clerity said its services help customers automate that transition, which it says can cut down on the cost and time of retesting systems and retraining IT workers.

Clerity was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Chicago. Dell said it welcomed Clerity’s 70 employees to its services division.

On Monday, Dell said it planned to buy Wyse Technology, another cloud computing company.

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Police: Dubai watching the Web round the clock

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A senior Dubai cyber-crimes investigator says authorities are now conducting round-the-clock monitoring of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

The stepped up Web watching in the United Arab Emirates comes amid rising crackdowns on alleged political dissent, including recent arrests of activists for Internet postings deemed challenges to the country’s rulers.

Maj. Salem Obaid Salmeen, Dubai’s deputy director of anti-electronic crimes, was quoted Wednesday by the news website Emirates 24/7 as saying social media sites are considered “public spaces” and the country’s laws apply.

The UAE does not permit political parties and open protests for reforms can bring arrests.

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NYC’s tourism arm to unveil free smartphone app

NEW YORK — A new free smartphone app will help tourists navigate New York City’s restaurants, stores, attractions and more.

NYC Map comes from NYC and Co., the city’s tourism and marketing arm. It was designed by CityMaps, a local start-up.

The app will provide access to nearly 90,000 restaurants, stores, attractions, hotels and bars. Its features include reservation bookings on OpenTable, movie ticket purchases via Fandago and information about public transportation. Users can also check in on Foursquare, send tweets and upload photos.

The iPhone app will be available for download on iTunes.

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Alec Baldwin Twitter: Actor Rips ‘Daily News’ Reporters, Publishes Picture …

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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Notorious loudmouth Alec Baldwin took to Twitter Monday to rip the reporters who crashed his fiancée’s yoga class to snap photographs of her ring. The “30 Rock” star confirmed to The Huffington Post Monday that he is engaged to 28-year-old yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas, sparking headlines across the Internet announcing the news.

But Baldwin believes that one publication took it too far: the New York Daily News, which published blurry mobile phone snapshots of Thomas and of her ring. “Thomas was photographed Monday in Manhattan sporting a square-cut Cartier diamond engagement ring on her left hand,” the Daily News wrote in the article announcing the engagement, which also included several quotes from Baldwin’s brother Stephen.

The report subsequently set off a flurry of furious tweets from Baldwin, who in a Twitter rage slammed the paper (wrongly confusing its publisher as Rupert Murdoch in the process) and the article’s writers (identifying them by name, Twitter handle and photograph), and added a few not-so-nice insults to boot (“Snooki,” “nutty b*tch”).

This isn’t the first time Baldwin has unhinged on his Twitter account. In December 2011, Baldwin used the social network to vent about American Airlines, after he was kicked off a plane for refusing to shut down his iPad. He also alluded to the founder of the gossip website TMZ, which was quick to publish the airplane incident, before temporarily quitting Twitter altogether: “What’s a twelve letter word that is interchangeable for HARVEY LEVIN?”

What do you think, readers? Has Alec gone too far, or is he right to blast the reporters who he believes invaded his fiance’s privacy? And in other, happier news, today is also Baldwin’s birthday (he turns 54). Happy birthday, Alec!



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What Google, Twitter, Angry Birds could have looked like in 1980 (video)

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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I worked briefly with Microsoft UK in 2006 but no longer have any connection with the company. Regardless, I remain impartial and unbiased in my views.

I don’t hold any stock or shares, investments or industrial secrets in any company, but have signed confidentiality agreements with a number of UK and U.S. organisations, whose names I am not at liberty to disclose.

I was involved with Kent Union, the University of Kent’s student union, undertaking voluntary, non-salaried, elected positions between early 2009 and mid-2010.

No other company, body, government department, non-governmental organisation or third sector organisation employs me or pays me a salary in any capacity whatsoever.

As a freelance journalist, whenever expenses are given and taken by a company that is not CBS Interactive, these will be disclosed in each relevant post to ensure transparency.

I currently work with a UK law enforcement unit. Details of which are restricted, but this is an entirely separate position which bears no connection to other work.

(Updated: 23rd October 2011)

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Instagram for Android Nabs 1M Downloads, Prompts iPhone Twitter Spat

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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The release of Instagram for Android was music to many people’s ears, as excited Android users downloaded more than 1 million copies of the popular photo-sharing app in less than 24 hours.

The free app was released Tuesday on Google Play, formerly known as the Android Market, and has been a runaway hit with Android users. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told The New York Times that the app was seeing 2,000 signups each minute following its debut. More than 430,000 Android users, meanwhile, had already signed up to be one of “the first in line for Instagram on Android” during a pre-registration period that began on March 25.

But not everyone was excited about Instagram’s arrival on Android. Some iPhone users took to Twitter to express annoyance, some jokingly, that the app is now open to Android users, helping make “Instagram” and “Android” trending topics yesterday afternoon.

One user, @matthewtpain, wrote that he was, “bummed to see Instagram is coming soon to Android. I like the exclusivity of iPhone users only.”

“I’m annoyed that instagram is coming to the Android soon… it should just be an iPhone thing,” wrote Twitter user @Anthony_CA.

Meanwhile, one user, @iFollowBlindPpl wrote, “Don’t follow me on instagram if you got an Android. Only iPhone users following this way. Im blocking Android users. This is war.”

“I’m absolutely #outraged that Instagram is on Android now,” Twitter user @Chino_Wanker wrote, likely in jest. “Now it’s gonna be populated by people who are poor and can’t afford an iphone.”

Overall, however, most iPhone users don’t seem to be bothered.

“To be clear, 99.99% of iPhone users will have absolutely no opinion about Instagram arriving on Android,” @jamesburland wrote.

Instagram first debuted in October 2010 for the iPhone, and up until yesterday was only available for iOS devices. The app lets users add different custom filters to photos in order to change the colors, mood, border, and tonality of their snapshots.

The release of Instagram for Android came several weeks after Systrom tipped its arrival at last month’s SXSW conference in Austin. At the time, the app was not quite ready for primetime, but Systrom said that “in some ways, it’s better than our iOS app. It’s crazy.”

What do you think of Instagram being made available for Android? Did you download it? Let us know in the comments and stay tuned for PCMag’s full review of the Android app. Until then, check out our review of the iPhone Instagram app.

For more from Angela, follow her on Twitter @amoscaritolo.

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As Yahoo Cuts Jobs, Proxy Battle, Facebook Patent War Heat Up

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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Struggling Internet giant Yahoo announced 2,000 layoffs Wednesday as it mapped out its latest plan to reverse a years-long slump that has seen the web pioneer become eclipsed by younger rivals. But new CEO Scott Thompson faces several daunting challenges, including a proxy fight with a powerful hudge fund investor and an escalating patent war with social networking juggernaut Facebook.

The latest layoffs represent about 14% of Yahoo’s workforce, and will save the company some $375 million annually moving forward. In a memo to employees, Thompson said the changes will allow the company to become “a smaller, nimbler, more profitable Yahoo! better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”

Thompson said the latest re-organization would focus attention on leveraging the “massive data sets” of information about the vast pool of users that make Yahoo one of the top properties on the web. “We have to unlock the value in our data to allow us to really understand our 700 million users, encourage and win their engagement and trust, leverage everything they do with us to more fully personalize their experiences, and to give our advertisers the immediate insights they are rightfully demanding,” he wrote.

Thompson, who become CEO in January 2012, faces a number of challenges, most notably a governance fight being waged by activist investor Dan Loeb, who runs a hedge fund called Third Point Capital, which has invested over $1 billion to acquire a 5.5% stake in Yahoo. Loeb has proposed a slate of new board members, including himself, former NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker; former MTV Networks president Michael Wolf and turnaround expert Harry Wilson.

(More: Yahoo Sues Facebook in Patent Shakedown)

Yahoo has said it’s willing to consider Wilson, but not the other proposed candidates, setting up an expected power struggle at the company’s annual meeting this summer. In anticipation of the fight, Loeb has set up a website to advocate for his agenda, ValueYahoo.com.

“In the absence of independent shareholder leadership, Yahoo has repeatedly failed to execute a consistent operating plan or realize favorable strategic outcomes,” Loeb and the other proposed board members wrote on the site. “During the past five years, these management and governance missteps have gone unchallenged, leaving shareholders with unfulfilled promises from a revolving door of five CEOs and the Board members charged with overseeing them.”

Yahoo CEO Thompson also faces an escalating intellectual property dispute with Facebook, which was prompted by the web giant’s recent demand that Facebook pay it licensing fees to cover social networking technology patents — or else face a potentially costly legal dispute. On Tuesday, Facebook filed a countersuit against Yahoo, saying it did so “in response to Yahoo’s short-sighted decision to attack one of its partners and prioritize litigation over innovation.”

In recent years, Yahoo has experienced a long, painful slide as it’s been eclipsed by one-time rival Google as well as social media upstarts like Facebook and Twitter. Last September, Carol Bartz was fired as CEO and in January, co-founder Jerry Yang left the company. Thompson is also faced with finding an exit for the company’s valuable Asian assets, including a large stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which are worth an estimated $20 billion.

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Facebook `Out-Googled’ Google, EMusic CEO Says

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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Facebook IPO Cuts Operators Out of Cash From Messaging

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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Facebook Inc. (FB) (FB)’s increasing reach,
bolstered by an initial public offering that may value the
company at more than $100 billion, will hurt mobile-phone
operators’ sales from services such as text messaging, Magister
Advisors said.

“Facebook’s IPO is about the worst thing that could happen
to network operators,” Victor Basta, managing director of
London-based Magister Advisors, which has advised companies such
as Amazon.com Inc.’s movie-streaming unit Lovefilm, said in a
note today. “They’re supporting the end users’ social
networking habits, but they see very little, if any, commercial
benefit and the downside risks are significant.”

European carriers including Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) and Royal
KPN NV have struggled to adapt to the surging demand for social
media on mobile phones, with consumers increasingly
circumventing traditional text message charges by sending free
messages over the Internet. Operators may lose $23.2 billion in
SMS revenue this year, after $13.9 billion in 2011, as
subscribers turn to outside social messaging apps, according to
researcher Ovum.

As Facebook feels more pressure to meet investors’
expectations for profitability, wireless operators will have to
deal with more traffic on their networks and Facebook will have
a difficult time justifying sharing revenue with mobile
companies, Basta said. Facebook applications such as the chat
feature may eat into operators’ income for features such text
messaging, he said.

Data Plans

Still, many operators are embracing Facebook as they want
customers to adopt more-expensive data plans to surf the Web.
Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) has begun a partnership with the social
networking site to drive traffic among Indian customers. France
Telecom SA (FTE), the owner of the Orange mobile brand, announced
plans last year to sell phones with unlimited access to Facebook
in some markets in Europe and Africa.

“The fundamental challenge for network operators will be
finding a way of becoming part of the Facebook ecosystem rather
than simply external enablers,” Basta said.

A Facebook spokeswoman declined to comment on anything
relating to the IPO. Magister Advisors said it is not involved
with the transaction.

Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, filed in
February to raise $5 billion. The company’s implied valuation
rose to $102.8 billion on March 30 in what is expected to be the
last auction of internally circulated stock traded on the
SharesPost Inc. exchange. The world’s most popular social-
networking site plans to hold its IPO in May, a person familiar
with the company’s plans said last month.

To contact the reporters on this story:
Amy Thomson in London at
athomson6@bloomberg.net;
Jonathan Browning in London at
jbrowning9@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
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Facebook, Twitter are life lines as tornadoes wallop Texas

April 4, 2012 by admin  
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Computerworld - As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, hurling tractor-trailer trucks in the air and shredding houses, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

About a dozen tornadoes touched down around the Dallas/Fort Worth area Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Homes were destroyed, vehicles were tossed like toys and thousands are still without power.

As people took shelter and tried to locate loved ones, they also took to social sites like Facebook and Twitter to warn others of tornado touchdowns and advancing storms. Cities put out information about areas to avoid and shelter openings, and people and organizations were quick to post pictures and information about found pets.

It’s become a common story: When a crisis strikes, people turn to their favorite social networks to give and receive information.

“As we have seen before, social networking appears to be the best, fastest way to reach large groups of people,” said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research. “With the ability to monitor Facebook and Twitter on mobile devices, they become very efficient ways of disseminating and finding info. And it’s real time so it’s the one place you can go and know you can find the info you’re looking for.”

During Tuesday’s storms, the city of Arlington,Texas was tweeting and posting on Facebook about shelters, hotels offering emergency rates and reports of ruptured natural gas lines.

A group called “Lost Found Pets from North Texas Tornadoes” set up a Facebook page to try to help lost pets find their way back to their families. One woman, for example, used the Facebook page to post a photo of a found female border collie. Another user offered to help people search for their missing pets.

Another group, dubbed DFW Police Scanner, used Twitter to get out information about where the storms were headed and where they were touching down. “SPOTTER – TORNADO ON THE GROUND just west of the WalMart in Forney. Seek shelter now!” tweeted @DFWscanner.

And Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport used Twitter to report canceled flights, restaurants that were open at the terminals and where to go for more travel information.

“We had about 12 tornadoes touch down around #DFW yesterday. 100+ aircraft were damaged from hail,” tweeted @dfwairport. “If you’re in one of our terminals please don’t hesitate to let us know if we can be of assistance.”

However, organizations weren’t the only one putting up warnings. Individuals like @Brentweets posted, “Tornadoes have hit near Dallas. Police are saying to immediately evacuate to Cowboy Stadium as it is the least likely place for a touchdown.”

Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, and desktop and laptop chips for Computerworld. Follow Sharon on Twitter at Twitter @sgaudin or subscribe to Sharon’s RSS feed Gaudin RSS. Her e-mail address is sgaudin@computerworld.com.

Read more about Web 2.0 and Web Apps in Computerworld’s Web 2.0 and Web Apps Topic Center.

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