--- title: links for 2008-01-22 date: 2008-01-22T05:18:11Z modified: 2008-01-22T05:18:11Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/21/links-for-2008-01-22/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1927 categories: - Links timestamp: 2008-01-22T05:18:11Z tags: - Links --- - [Walk Score – Helping homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods.](http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=1401+wewatta+st%2C+denver%2C+co&go=Go) sweet, my hood scores a 94 out of a hundred for “walkability” (tags: [walkability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/walkability) [neighborhoods](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/neighborhoods) [mashups](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mashups) [via:afongen](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:afongen)) - [SUMo: Keep your PC programs up-to-date – Download Squad](http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/18/sumo-keep-your-pc-programs-up-to-date/) a Windows clone of apt? (tags: [windows](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/windows) [apt](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/apt) [sumo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sumo) [packagemanagement](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/packagemanagement) [utilities](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/utilities) [via:joshua](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:joshua)) - [The Sun-MySQL deal stinks – MarketWatch](http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sun-mysql-deal-stinks/story.aspx?guid=88606B4A-A4AF-46FC-9C80-6B186A622456&dist=SecMostEmailed) umm…what? even for Dvorak, this is convoluted (tags: [sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sun) [mysql](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mysql) [johndvorak](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/johndvorak) [m&a](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/m&a) [conspiracytheory](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/conspiracytheory)) - [Case Studies | Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies) some solid case studies for Canonical / Ubuntu; RedMonk could be one (tags: [freesoftware](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/freesoftware) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [casestudies](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/casestudies) [ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ubuntu) [via:michael](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:michael)) - [Free Space to Three Gigabytes « WordPress.com](http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/21/three-gigabytes/) “Over the past year we’ve developed our file infrastructure, replication, backup, caching, and S3-backed storage to the point where we don’t feel like we need to artificially limit what you folks are able to upload just to keep up with growth.” (tags: [wordpress](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wordpress) [space](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/space) [s3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/s3) [storage](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/storage) [automattic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/automattic)) - [Book now for the flight to nowhere – Times Online](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2558290.ece) as Chris said, sometimes a reality check is good for your perspective (tags: [india](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/india) [travel](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/travel) [poverty](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/poverty) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture)) - [Marketers: Experiment Like Google – Advertising Age – Digital](http://adage.com/digital/article.php?article_id=123170) “Marketers who are doing best are trying, they’re beta [testing] all over the place, they see what works and they build on that.” – couldn’t agree more. the shotgun approach is highly recommended in this day and age, though checked w/ metrics. (tags: [advertising](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/advertising) [business](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/business) [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [marketing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/marketing) [experimentation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/experimentation) [via:david](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:david)) - [When employees blog and comment off the farm at Churbuck.com](http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1521) it’s a difficult realization for every business, but the fact is they never had the control in the first place – it’s just that we had inefficient distribution mechanisms. (tags: [control](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/control) [business](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/business) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/blogging) [davidchurbuck](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/davidchurbuck)) - [Anne Truitt Zelenka » My Mini-Sabbatical Begins Today](http://www.annezelenka.com/2008/01/my-mini-sabbatical-begins-today) mmm…six week sabbatical (tags: [annetruittzelenka](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/annetruittzelenka) [sabbatical](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sabbatical)) - [Why I care about RedMonk at Pensieri di un lunatico minore](http://blog.amber.org/2008/01/21/why-i-care-about-redmonk/) “I am the sworn enemy of most analysts, who do little more than tell you…what happened 5 years ago…or…exactly what won’t happen in the future…Not so with RedMonk.” – it’s comments like this, from real, bright practitioners, that make this job fu (tags: [chrispetrilli](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/chrispetrilli) [redmonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonk) [quotes](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/quotes)) - [The Denver Post – 10 hurt on turbulent United flight](http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8034566?source=rss) “United Airlines diverted a plane to Denver this morning after encountering turbulence that sent eight passengers and two flight attendants to hospitals.” – that must have been some ridiculous turbulence (tags: [turbulence](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/turbulence) [united](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/united) [denver](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/denver) [ord](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ord) [lax](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/lax))