There is a belief in startup-land that you have to be younger than ___ to successfully innovate. To some extent, that is driven by the youth of the founders of a few highly successful companies like Facebook and Twitter, magnified by the adoring media coverage they get. And yet, even when I was back in my 20s and 30s, there was a nagging presence in my head that said, "

After our article last week discussing the economics of moving into AWS vs. do-it-yourself (DIY), Jim Stogdill wrote an excellent follow-up about when enterprises aren't moving into the public cloud; Simon Wardley - whose strategic situational awareness mapping is in a category by itself and should be required reading for anyone responsible for strategy - continued with his input. In Jim's words, private clouds are like SUVs; they rarely make sense economically, but sometimes you buy them anyways because:

The browser is the single most ubiquitous piece of software on the planet. Nearly every computing device has at least one one. Because of its ubiquity, and its use across multiple applications from open (Google "how much does a banana weigh") to private (browser-based email) to secure (office applications or banking), it is also a source of many risks. This article will dig a little deeper into issues of browser security and privacy.

The Internet has been abuzz for the last week about a hitherto little-known clause in Samsung's "Smart TV" privacy policy. The news was most prominently covered in the Daily Beast, here. The Daily Beast includes a link to the entire privacy policy, but the important element is: Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party.