--- title: links for 2007-04-10 date: 2007-04-10T05:28:47Z modified: 2007-04-10T05:28:47Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/09/links-for-2007-04-10/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1491 categories: - Links timestamp: 2007-04-10T05:28:47Z tags: - Links --- - [Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | ETech ’07 Summary – Part 2 – MegaData](http://bitworking.org/news/158/ETech-07-Summary-Part-2-MegaData) if you liked Adam Bosworth’s “Where Have All the Good Databases Gone”, this is important, just trust me (see also Bill’s comments); on a completely unrelated note, great to meet Joe in person – albeit briefly – last week (tags: [JoeGregorio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JoeGregorio) [databases](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/databases) [storage](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/storage) [scalability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scalability) [joinless](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/joinless) [distributed](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/distributed) [bigdata](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/bigdata)) - [News – Pidgin](http://pidgin.im/index.php?id=177) another unfortunate example of the collateral damage that results from trademark enforcement (tags: [Pidgin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Pidgin) [trademark](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/trademark) [GAIM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GAIM) [AOL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AOL) [AIM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AIM) [via:Simon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Simon)) - [Microsoft is Dead](http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html) i guess i’m old, because i’m thinking of the cash 😉 (tags: [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [PaulGraham](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/PaulGraham) [Google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Google) [Gmail](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Gmail) [Ajax](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ajax) [SaaS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SaaS)) - [SVN as a “Package Management” Tool | alexking.org](http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/06/svn-for-package-management) the package management debates with Alex are always fun, but he’s right – this is precisely how we’re using here. and actually, i know a bunch of folks that are doing that with their entire desktop now (tags: [Subversion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Subversion) [packagemanagement](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/packagemanagement) [AlexKing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AlexKing) [backup](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/backup)) - [Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » Digital identity allows us to manage risk – not prove negatives](http://www.identityblog.com/?p=751) “But I think it is important for everyone to understand that our starting point must be that every system can be breached.” – precisely so (tags: [KimCameron](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/KimCameron) [identity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/identity) [vulnerability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/vulnerability) [security](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/security)) - [Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Note to content owners: DRM doesn’t work](http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/96) “There are some ideas that are broken, but attractive enough to some people that they are doomed to be tried again and again. DRM is one of them.” – right in one (tags: [MarkShuttleworth](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MarkShuttleworth) [DRM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DRM) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [Blu-Ray](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Blu-Ray) [HD-DVD](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/HD-DVD)) - [Techquila Shots » First Twitter Bots Launched: Sports Teams, Weather, Stock Quotes](http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/04/04/first-twitter-bots-launched-sports-teams-weather-stock-quotes/) got added to these guys’ Twitter friends list, interestingly – methinks we’re going to see a lot more of this. and spam. (tags: [sports](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sports) [Twitter](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Twitter) [bots](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/bots) [alerts](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/alerts) [sms](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sms)) - [A MySQL Storage Engine for AWS S3](http://fallenpegasus.com/code/mysql-awss3/) John Herren and i are in agreement: this is very cool – special thanks to Mark for posting the link back to the blog so that i saw it quickly (tags: [JohnHerren](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JohnHerren) [AWS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AWS) [MySQL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MySQL) [MarkAtwood](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MarkAtwood)) - [Working for The Man | Tux Deluxe](http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/122) several folks sent me this or for’d it for me: unsurprisingly, i love it – speaks, in fact, to many of the reasons i do what i do (tags: [JeremyAllison](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JeremyAllison) [SAMBA](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SAMBA) [reputation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/reputation) [transparency](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/transparency) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [developers](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/developers)) - [Nanobeepers » Infinitely Scalable Framework with AWS?](http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/04/07/infinitely-scalable-framework-with-aws/) seen over on Joe’s Megadata post: another option built on Amazon’s HaaS offerings (tags: [S3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/S3) [EC2](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/EC2) [AWS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AWS) [HaaS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/HaaS) [persistence](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/persistence) [scalability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scalability)) - [Web Strategy by Jeremiah » “I only use email to communicate with old people”](http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/04/03/i-only-use-email-to-communicate-with-old-people/) talked to a young cousin this weekend who basically said the same thing: “i haven’t checked my email in three weeks” (tags: [via:Anne](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Anne) [email](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/email) [messaging](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/messaging) [facebook](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/facebook) [im](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/im)) - [WikiLicensing – Ubuntu Wiki](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiLicensing) the Ubuntu folks are looking to relicense their wiki content under a CC license: as an infrequent contributor, i’m all for it – sounds like a great idea (tags: [Ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ubuntu) [wiki](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wiki) [licensing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/licensing) [CreativeCommons](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/CreativeCommons) [relicensing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/relicensing) [documentation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/documentation))