Grab bag: learning from users and victims

Good explanation of the evolution of Twitter’s official retweet feature. My takeaway: RT in Twitter should now only be used as an amplifier. If you want to comment on someone’s tweet, comment on it and point to the original with a short URL rather than RT. This is instructive as a product manager to understand how Twitter thought through the product design process.

Chris Wysopal argues that more disclosure is needed to ensure that the avenues used to shake down RBS’s ATM network are not exploited at other firms.

SAS 70 Type II is a major milestone for the trustworthiness of “cloud” computing. This is a great option to have for deploying an application.