Links for March 25th through March 29th

• OpsCamp Boston, Apr 22, 2010
  The Austin event was rad.
• On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | Interview | Music | The Observer
  Brian Eno is always interesting to read.
• Canonical Blog » Blog Archive » Dell announces support for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
• Adobe Q1 Fiscal 2010 Earnings Call Script [PDF]
  They do nice breakouts of their product lines.
• Apple – Support – Discussions – iPhoto will not update MobileMe gallery …
  Some authentication bug in iPhoto and MobileMe it seems.
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launch
  Online launch event for Adobe's flagship, cash-cow product, Creative Suite 5.
• Is it too late for JavaFX to succeed?
• New Abiquo Cloud Management Product First to Offer Integral VMware-to-Microsoft Hyper-V Conversion | Business Wire
  "Abiquo 1.5 changes the Cloud management market as the first product to allow IT managers to automatically convert virtual machine images built for one hypervisor technology to any other supported hypervisor including the conversion from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V, through a single drag-and-drop operation. As the only product to support all five of the major hypervisor types, this, along with other new features, brings Abiquo significantly closer to its unique vision of delivering to IT organizations a platform for managing fully interoperable, vendor-neutral public and private Clouds."
• AccelOps Enters the Cloud Computing Arena by Delivering Cross-Correlated Intelligence – Yahoo! Finance
  New release with virtualization and all manner of other additions. Cloud!
• Data is Money – and Money is Data | The Future of Targeting
  Better junk mail through self-service demographic profiling!
• Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know – BusinessWeek
• code.intuit.com: lessons learned 1 year later
• Freemiums for SaaS « SmoothSpan Blog
• Minimizing the Cost of SaaS Operations
• IBM Extends Development and Test to the IBM Cloud – United States
  Two items: (1.) using an IBM cloud to do dev and QA. A nice, ramped up adoption for wider public cloud adoption, just like virtualization. (2.) check out the video in the IBM press release.
• Spiceworks 4.6 | Network Virtualization, Help Desk Upgrades, Bug Fixes
  Spiceworks continues to look like a solid offering, and all for free.
• Versiera Enables Cloud and Enterprise Network Visualization
• Nimsoft, a CA Company
• Versiera Surpasses The Big 4 Infrastructure Management Vendors
  Canadian IT Management company has a new release, including use of HTML 5 for topology: "Versiera Network Maps are the first in the industry to adopt and make use of the HTML5 elements which can already be rendered on Chrome, Opera, Safari and Firefox. IT departments can not only visualize their network infrastructures, but can extend to visualize all network communications in the enterprise and those extending out to the Internet."
• The Long, Winding Road to Online Collaboration – The Connected Web
  Adobe updates it's SaaS competitor for Office – word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and now "work spaces."
• Gartner: iPhone Sales Double in 2009 as Apple Claims Third Place in Smartphone Sales – Mac Rumors
• The Present and Future of HTML5 Video Experiences
  A pragmatic approach to video fragmentation (Flash and HTML 5): "The short version is that HTML5 is here to stay, but it is still in its infancy, and the Flash Platform is not going away for the foreseeable future, so it is important for website owners to develop a strategy for utilizing both approaches." It occurs to me that HTML 5 is itself forking the (de facto) web – forking it away from using Flash – which is sort of weird considering that it's the standard.
• One-on-one with a Texas Tribune developer
• No Flash On The iPad? No Problem. Brightcove Turns Videos Into HTML5.
• UML
  "like so many things that are 'all things to all people,' UML ended up failing on all fronts. It was too technical and too precise for the non-engineer to deal with, so all the work of actually creating the UML documents fell on the developers who–already having their own mental tool set for dealing with models–least needed UML. The finished documents were more approachable, but no less understood by other stakeholders than the technical specifications that had gone before, so UML turned out to be a lot of work for little additional value."
• Telling a story on the label
  A good example of why I'm obsessed with packaging and labels (all them photos in flickr).
• The Wild Card
  A Dallas teacher who's a shoe in or the Texas State Board of Education looks like he's going to try and remove conservatism from textbook wrangling.

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