Links for March 30th through March 31st

A little something extra…

After seeing Stephen move over to Pinboard a little while ago, I’ve been curious. I saw that Robert Brook was using it this afternoon and finally decided to sign up. I paid for the full meal, $25 for a year of the service and archiving of my bookmarks (it saves a cached copy).

So far, it’s nice. The initial feature set (pulling in del.icio.us, Google Reader, Twitter links, InstaPaper, etc.) is fantastic. Like Stephen, I’ve been a long time del.icio.us user (it’s what powers these links and I actually use it to store and then look up things for my job) but the lack of attention to it has been disappointing. To be clear: del.icio.us has been a phenomenal part of my (online) life and career for a long, long time. Love(d) ’em!

We’ll see if the idea that “you get what you pay for” applies here. I pay for flickr, and have little to no complaints there – along with other services like Evernote and iPhone Apps for InstaPaper, etc. I hope to see a continuous stream of fun, helpful, if only small features from Pinboard.

(Pardon any hiccups you see in the links as I readjust my Yahoo! Pipes/Wordpress whirligig to use Pinboard.)

The Links

• Monetizing the Technical Debt
• More Improvements to the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V – Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft
  More Hyper-V code contributed to Linux-land.
• Where Are the iPad Venture Funds? Oh Wait…Nevermind.
• Eclipse Community Survey Results
  Raw survey results of the Eclipse Communit. It's interesting to see people answer Struts and ExtJS and jquery so much to the the "what RIA framework do you use" (14. 11c). Seems like Ajax dominates. And who are those 67 people who don't use a version control system?! 😉
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization’s Next Test
  News from KVM/RedHat land.
• The Flash Blog » Flash Player 10.1 multi-touch FAQ
• Gartner Smackdown on Open Core
  Tarus takes the baton.
• Top 6 Insights from the Eclipse Community Survey « Ian Skerrett
  Ian summarizes some findings from a recent developer survey.
• MuleSoft Raises $12 Million Venture Round
  ESB-cum-middleware company gets 3rd round of funding. Former RedMonk client.
• Mobile Broadband: You’re Gonna Pay for the Convenience
  Interesting charts on mobile bandwidth usage by handset (Nokia leads) and then type of content being consumed.
• Austin startup is a literal smash hit at tech showcase
• Home – QRANK
• SXSW Panel: Could The iPad Have Saved Gourmet? The (New) Future of Magazines
  "There biggest unknown with the iPad isn’t whether consumers will use it but whether advertisers will, which will be a challenge because advertisers are going to want to see metrics, and Apple doesn’t give out consumer data. One bright spot is iTunes, which can sell 15,000 units a month, is a magazine’s biggest newsstand, which proves that people are willing to pay for mobile content."
• Five years from now, will a 200-person company need any servers on site? – Brian Madden – BrianMadden.com
  Nice answers in the comments.
• Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud
  More on Dell's cloud-centric servers, newly released.
• Microsoft embraces HTML5 specification in IE9
  "Microsoft is using the H.264 codec in its implementation of HTML5, which does not have a specified codec of its own, Hachamovitch noted. The company also is supporting other HTML5 specifications including CSS3 and XHTML parsing. Asked if Microsoft would support HTML5 Canvas tags in IE9, Hachamovitch said graphics supported in IE9 are GPU-powered and it remains to be seen what else might be supported in that vein."
• YouTube – The Internet of Things
  Pretty good sum-up of the vision, actually. Check the big brother fretting in the comments.
• Sun's IBM-mainframe flower wilts under Oracle's hard gaze • The Register
• Open-Core: The Emperor’s New Clothes
  "This is where the hype starts to creep in. The idea that a functionally complete, proprietary solution is somehow unique because it was built atop an open source base fails to recognize the fact that many proprietary solutions are being built using open source components. Open-core providers deserve no brownie points from you because ultimately the end result is the same. You’re licensing a proprietary solution from an organization which builds it with free open source components. The direction that happens – either open-to-proprietary or proprietary-to-open – is meaningless to you."
• Where Are the iPad Venture Funds? Oh Wait…Nevermind.
• Ex-contender for top IBM job pleads guilty on securities charges • The Register
  More from the insider trading scandal.
• Oracle looks to keep Java interesting and attract young developers
  Nice to see Jeet back in action. Also, Oracle makes clear statements of supporting three Java IDEs: JDeveloper, NetBeans, and Eclipse.
• Embarcadero All-access: a better way to deploy developer tools?
  Also see Genuitec Pulse.
• Where Are the iPad Venture Funds? Oh Wait…Nevermind.
• Does StreamWork Give a Picture of SAP's Future?
• Myopic View of DevOps Misses the Mark
• social media addiction
  How people waste their precious time. But, what else would they be doing?
• For Dell, Joyent Weaves a Software Cloud
  "The company is now going to provide Joyent cloud platform software to Dell, which will in turn use that software to offer a new Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications. This would allow Dell to sell its gear to companies that are looking for ways to set up private clouds."
• Philadelphia Business Journal: Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference like Woodstock, organizer says
• New Dell Servers Target Cloud Customers
• RightScale Boosts Enterprise Capabilities in its Leading Cloud Management Platform
  RightScale ads the traditional list of "enterprise" trimmings: finer access control, self-service/portal, CMDB integration.
• RightScale Launches 1 Millionth Cloud Server
• 2010 Open Source Business Conference – Day One
• Adventures in Open Source » Blog Archive » OpenNMS in the Cloud
  OpenNMS being used in cloud related offerings.
• Improved Flash Player Support in Chrome – Adobe Flash Player Team Blog
• Chromium Blog: Bringing improved support for Adobe Flash Player to Google Chrome
  Google and Adobe working together, bundling Flash in Chrome browser. Watch as the HTML 5 vs. Flash pundits get confused!
• Connections: The Season to Move On
  Another analysts goes to a vendor to help conquer the cloud.
• Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard – Lapham’s Quarterly
• InfoQ: ThoughtWorks’ Developers Favor Distributed Version Control Systems
• Chris Aniszczyk's (zx) diatribe » Fedoras and Change
• EclipseCon 2010: Oracle Pushes Java Modularization, Talks Future of Java Under Oracle — Redmond Developer News
• Enterprise OSGi spec rolls out at EclipseCon
• Former MySQL CEO: More successful open source startups needed
• The best new travel technology
• FCC: Agencies need common cloud computing vision
• "Freeing SaaS from Cloud": slides and notes from Cloud Connect keynote
  "A large part of the Cloud value proposition is increased flexibility. At the infrastructure level, being able to provision a server in minutes rather than days or weeks, being able to turn one off and instantly stop paying for it, are huge gains in flexibility. It doesn’t work quite that way at the application level. You rarely have 500 new employees joining overnight who need to have their email and CRM accounts provisioned. This is not to minimize the difficulties of deploying and scaling individual applications (any improvement is welcome on this). But those difficulties are not what is crippling the ability of IT to respond to business needs."
• IBM Cloud Strategy: Collaboration, Dev/Test Environments, and Virtual Desktops

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