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I rarely eat lunch at my desk. Eating lunch in a cafeteria is such a precious opportunity to waste. I plot for serendipity. That's right. Some of the best conversations that I have had with people — on my way to a cafetaria or in the cafeteria — are purely serendipitous, but they're not purely accidental. I even pick a cafeteria that requires me to walk a little more. I believe you can always create opportunities for good things to happen to you. When people say "It's a small world", they are so wrong. The world isn't small but they're at the right place at the right time to think it's a coincidence. The coincidences do happen but there's a larger force behind orchestrating the possibilities for such coincidences to occur. The same applies to creativity. You can design an epiphany. I have heard people say that they had an epiphany while they were in shower. It's not the shower but it's illumination followed by a prolonged incubation , two p...

My friends at Trezza Media recently published a couple of great online documents on GovCloud and Cyber . Your should especially check out the "Cloud Chopping Made Easy" by David McClure ..... and Jim Flyzik's viewpoint on building trust in cyberspace. ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )

Dropbox revised their Terms of Service (TOS) over the long weekend. That triggered a flurry of activities on Twitter. Dave Winer even deleted his Dropbox account saying that he would revisit it once the dust settles. A lot of people concluded that there's nothing wrong in the new TOS and that people are simply overreacting. And then Dropbox updated their blog post, twice, explaining that there is nothing wrong with new TOS and cleared some confusion. I would let you be the judge of the situation and the new TOS. This post is not about analyzing the new TOS of Dropbox, but it's about looking at more basic issue in product design. What we witnessed was just a symptom. Let me be very clear - your product design includes getting the TOS and End User License Agreement (EULA) right before you open up the service. The way the most TOS and EULA are worded, an average user can't even fathom what the service actually does, what information it collects, what it shares, and most impor...

On Friday July 1, Infrastructure-as-a-Services for the US federal government became a reality with Authority to Operate (ATO) approval for the following vendors: Web Hosting CGI Federal Computer Literacy World Eyak Technology Computer Technologies Consultant Savvis Federal Systems Virtual Machine Autonomic Resources Carahsoft Technology Corp CGI Federal Computer Literacy World AT&T Eyak Technology General Dynamics information Technology Verizon Federal Computer Technologies Consultant Savvis Federal Storage Apptis Computer Literacy World AT&T Eyak Technology Insight Public Sector, Inc Computer Technologies Consultant Finally, after a nearly two year process, which I announced on Cloud Musings on July 31, 2009 , Vivek Kundra's vision of government cloud computing will now be put to the test!! ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )