A quick update on my recent ever got pinged by your CEO? post, and some related commentary on online social media in the enterprise world.

Presumably by way of a forward-thinking PR department close to Deutsche Telekom management (indeed my employer), I recently received a LinkedIn invite to connect to DT CEO Rene Obermann.
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Has lengthy Sigur Ros concert coverage replaced subversive short-form clips on Current TV?

In other words, is US television’s first intrepid citizen journalist network gradually jettisoning its user-generated videos, in favor of a content format ubiquitous elsewhere on TV? 
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With the IBM and Sun deal we wrote about a few weeks ago now reported to be very close to happening (any minute now…), rumors are starting to swirl about another (somewhat sexier) acquisition:

according to rumor…   google may want twitter

(…and stay tuned for some interesting antitrust issues with the IBM deal - I put the likelihood that one or more parts of Sun end up getting spun off in the process at about 50-50)

By now you’ve probably heard about ghostnet, the large-scale operation originating from somewhere within China.  So far, 1,295 computers in 103 countries have been discovered to be infected by the sophisticated rootkit malware (rootkits are particularly tough to detect because they live at a very low level, as close to the actual machine as the operating system itself).  Like most such attacks, ghostnet was launched via ‘trojan’ malware (software embedded into commonly emailed file formats such as Word, Acrobat, or PowerPoint).  The file arrives as an attachment in an email “spoofed” to appear from a trustworthy source, and the malware executes when the user opens the seemingly innocent file.
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Speculating here about Disney’s recent (quasi-) presence on YouTube, we concluded that:

• YouTube was expanding beyond its core business of UGC (user-generated content) hosting into premium licensed content - and is willing to be just an aggregator to do it.
• Disney was finally ‘dipping its toe into video stream syndication via YouTube before placing its bet on hulu.

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…we saved this for April Fools’ Day - but it’s for real: