--- title: links for 2007-07-03 date: 2007-07-03T05:26:43Z modified: 2007-07-03T05:26:43Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/07/02/links-for-2007-07-03/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1644 categories: - Links timestamp: 2007-07-03T05:26:43Z tags: - Links --- - [Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Project Zero](http://bitworking.org/news/210/Project-Zero) Joe’s thoughts on IBM’s Project Zero (tags: [ProjectZero](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ProjectZero) [IBM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/IBM) [JoeGregorio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JoeGregorio) [REST](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/REST) [opencommercialdevelopment](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opencommercialdevelopment) [PHP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/PHP) [Groovy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Groovy) [scripting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scripting) [dynamiclanaguges](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dynamiclanaguges)) - [Blogging Roller: Zero](http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/zero) Dave’s thoughts on Project Zero: he’s less impressed (tags: [Project](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Project) [Zero](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Zero) [DaveJohnson](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DaveJohnson) [Phobos](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Phobos) [scripting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scripting) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [PHP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/PHP) [Groovy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Groovy)) - [Simon Phipps, SunMink: Welcome to GPLv3](http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/welcome_to_gplv3) Simon’s take on GPLv3; consistent with what i’ve heard from him from day one, i think (tags: [GPLv3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GPLv3) [GPL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GPL) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [SimonPhipps](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SimonPhipps) [webmink](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webmink) [licensing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/licensing) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents) [Sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Sun)) - [GrandCentral Blog » Blog Archive » We’re now part of Google!](http://blog.grandcentral.com/?p=133) congrats to the folks from Grand Central. this is a very interesting acqusition for Google, if they can integrate it properly – which remains to be seen. will write it up later this week if someone doesn’t do a better job first (tags: [GrandCentral](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GrandCentral) [Google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Google) [VOIP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/VOIP) [M&A](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/M&A) [voice](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/voice) [unifiedcommunications](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/unifiedcommunications) [collaboration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/collaboration)) - [Matusow’s Blog : Open XML- Denmark, now Massachusetts](http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2007/07/02/open-xml-denmark-now-massachusetts.aspx) not surprised that Jason thinks this is a positive development – this is a big PR win for MSFT, which came as a result of significant lobbying efforts. as someone who believes redundant formats are an issue, i do not regard this as positive (tags: [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [OOXML](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OOXML) [ODF](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ODF) [Massachusetts](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Massachusetts)) - [Luis Villa’s Blog / GPL v3, the Q&A: part 4- odds and ends](http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/28/gpl-v3-the-qa-part-4-odds-and-ends/) the conclusion of Luis’ masterful analysis of the GPLv3 (tags: [LuisVilla](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/LuisVilla) [gplv3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gplv3) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [pragmatism](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/pragmatism) [idealism](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/idealism) [compatibility](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/compatibility)) - [Michael Dolan Dot Com » GPLv3: Yes, I ignored it, let some dust settle, and now for my thoughts… if you care 😉](http://www.michaeldolan.com/918) Michael’s thoughts on the GPLv3 – worth a read (tags: [MichaelDolan](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MichaelDolan) [GPLv3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GPLv3) [adoption](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/adoption)) - [christopher baus.net | 2007-07-02 | Twitter storage on S3](http://www.baus.net/s3-twitter-back-of-napkin) “Following Twitter’s well publicized scalability problems, I’ve been wondering if it would be possible to use Amazon’s S3 service as a data store for tweets and EC2 to handle tweet distribution.” – interesting question and analysis (tags: [ChristopherBaus](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ChristopherBaus) [S3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/S3) [Twitter](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Twitter) [EC2](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/EC2) [Amazon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Amazon)) - [The Cape Cod Wind Farm at Churbuck.com](http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1226) interesting thoughts on wind farms off the Cape from a resident (tags: [CapeCod](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/CapeCod) [windfarm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/windfarm) [wind](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wind) [power](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/power) [DavidChurbuck](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DavidChurbuck)) - [ongoing · Zero](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/07/02/Commercial-Open-Source) Tim’s more positive on Zero than is his colleague Dave, it would seem, though both are skeptical of the development model (tags: [TimBray](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/TimBray) [ProjectZero](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ProjectZero) [IBM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/IBM) [REST](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/REST) [WSDL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/WSDL) [Atom](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Atom)) - [Simon Phipps, SunMink: A Niche The Size Of A Canyon](http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/a_niche_the_size_of) “Stephen seems to suggest that in some way centralised SCM like Subversion is a natural choice for open source, but I would suggest that needs more thought.” – not sure where Simon got that, but i do agree with his DSCM’s for ecosystems arg (tags: [DSCM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DSCM) [OpenSolaris](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OpenSolaris) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [SCM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SCM) [Subversion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Subversion) [Mercurial](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Mercurial) [Git](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Git) [Bazaar](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Bazaar)) - [Official Google Blog: Google and health care](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-and-health-care.html) +1 for the candor of “we blew it,” -1 for the “the significant communication challenges that obviously arise from having many voices…speak publicly through blog posts.” the problem is not the voices, IMO, but the “corporate” blogging structure GOOG uses (tags: [Google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Google) [healthcare](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/healthcare) [Sicko](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Sicko) [MichaelMoore](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MichaelMoore) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/blogging) [transparency](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/transparency)) - [Europe gets 3G iPhone Monday | tbites](http://tbites.com/2007/06/europe-gets-3g-iphone-monday) “A new 3G version of the iPhone may be launched Monday in the UK in a joint promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile, and UK phone retailer Carphone Warehouse as an MVNO.” – the “reliable sources” makes this suspect, but man would it be funny (tags: [iPhone](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/iPhone) [Apple](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Apple) [3G](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/3G) [rumors](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rumors)) - [Bochum (Light Up My Life) by Six By Seven](http://radio.emusic.com/?id=woxy) i’m a Striim player guy, but Rafe is right – this is a very cool mashup that will save lots of folks time (tags: [Striim](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Striim) [eMusic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/eMusic) [radio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/radio) [mashup](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mashup) [Pandora](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Pandora) [WOXY](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/WOXY) [KCRW](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/KCRW))