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title: links for 2006-12-03
date: 2006-12-03T05:27:33Z
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- [Sam Ruby: Equal Time](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/12/01/Equal-Time)
    
    “What puzzles me is the one size fits all mentality I see everywhere.” – Sam echoes Roy Fielding; unsurprisingly, i agree – the one thing i’d add, however, is that REST has been forced to fight harder, b/c of the marketing around WS-*
    
    (tags: [RubyS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RubyS) [Fielding](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Fielding) [different](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/different) [tools](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tools) [jobs](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jobs) [WS-\*](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/WS-*) [REST](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/REST))
- [The Unwinnable War in high definition DVD « Susan Wu – Venture Capital](http://reality.org/2006/12/01/the-unwinnable-war-in-high-definition-dvd/)
    
    i watched the Lord of the Rings animated film several hundred times as a kid – why? well, yes, it was good, but also b/c it was one of maybe a dozen Betamax titles at the video store – format wars suck for consumers
    
    (tags: [DVD](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DVD) [Wu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Wu) [formats](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/formats) [VHS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/VHS) [Betamax](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Betamax))
- [Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog : Weblog](http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/tomorrows_fortune_500)
    
    read the comments here and then try and tell me it’s a bad idea for a CEO to have a blog
    
    (tags: [startup](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/startup) [Sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Sun) [Schwartz](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Schwartz) [comments](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/comments) [participation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/participation) [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community))
- [Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Now \*this\* is Office 2.0](http://ianmurdock.com/?p=383)
    
    “I look forward to the day when you can pull in all manner of structured information into a spreadsheet via similar formulas.” – me too
    
    (tags: [Murdock](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Murdock) [Google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Google) [spreadsheet](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/spreadsheet) [dynamic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dynamic) [updating](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/updating))
- [Fraser Speirs – S3 vs Bingodisk](http://fraserspeirs.livejournal.com/1064948.html)
    
    i’m currently evaluating these two services for backup purposes; this is an interesting look at the economics
    
    (tags: [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [Bingodisk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Bingodisk) [S3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/S3) [analysis](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/analysis))
- [Linux.com | Trolltech’s Greenphone: A reasonable first effort](http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/11/27/1937202.shtml?tid=122)
    
    “$700 is too rich for an independent open source developer, and what you get for that price is not enough to evoke love or enthusiasm.” – interesting contrast with the Moko
    
    (tags: [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [Trolltech](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Trolltech) [embedded](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/embedded) [Linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Linux) [phone](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/phone))