Links for March 4th

A little something extra…

Today, I leave with a little bit of a video meditation on marketing:

…that pretty much sums up how “marketing” works, don’t you think? ;>

The Links

• Intel tries cash to lure developers to its app store
  Intel using cash to boot-strap its app store.
• Making a podcast – some notes and observations – Roo Reynolds
  Concise tips on making a podcast.
• Ballmer On the Cloud: “Throw Out All the World’s Software” – GigaOM
  He also said that “the cloud wants smarter devices,” and that everything from sensors to VoIP technology have to rapidly advance in order to keep up with demand for cloud applications. “Five years from now, the cloud will mean that phones don’t look like they do now,” he noted.
• IBM WebSphere software early programs – IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 Open Beta – Overview
  Is WebSphere fixin' to push OSGi use for developers?
• HTML5 Demos and Examples
• Central Texas job market hit hard in January
  Anyone else notice all these Texas job loss numbers seem to have come out just after the primaries?
• How Agile is Influencing the Traditional Business Analyst Role Part 2
• How Agile is Influencing the Traditional Business Analyst Role: Part 1
• Ubuntu: Canonical’s New CEO Discusses Top Priorities

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.