Links for February 12th through February 18th

A little something extra…

I’ve been out most of this week, but I’m finally moved into the RedMonk Austin office, above. It’s been nice so far.

I’ll be back next week with more links and all the usual. I need to post Numbers, it’s been a long time!

The Links

• Should we clone Neanderthals? Seriously.
• Buffett's Newest CEO Rejoices at Farewell to Analysts, Hedge-Fund Managers
  “When I started as CEO 10 years ago, the typical investor had a time frame of three to five to seven years,” Rose said in an interview. “Year-by-year, that’s gotten shorter.” The increased focus on short-term results, fueled by real- time media and quarterly analyst calls, can be a distraction for a railroad executive who needs to buy locomotives that run for 20 years and put down tracks that last for 40, Rose said. Burlington Northern said last month it would commit $2.4 billion this year to capital projects, including track, signal systems and locomotives, about $240 million less than in 2009.
• Omniture extends marketing tools used by Walmart, Ford to iPhone
• Hixie's Natural Log: Consistency
  "Net result: the latest publication of HTML5 is now blocked by Adobe, via an objection that has still not been made public (despite yesterday's promise to make it so)."
• Moving to a Virtual Environment – Spiceworks Community
  One ops guy's story of ramping up virtualization.
• The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul
• Stealthy start-up backed by VMware founder Diane Greene looks to virtualize networks
• Foursquare Gets Lucky (Magazine) And A Deal With Conde Nast
• Microsoft’s Keyser Söze Opportunity

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