Links for April 14th through April 15th

The boys at Serial Solutions Austin, with visitor.

The Links

• Follow Finder by Google – cote
  – be nice to also get "tweeps to stop wasting your time following."
• What Makes Peer Code Review an Agile Process? | Agile Zone
• Spiceworks – SMB Market Research, Panels and Data from the Voice of IT(TM)
  Check out @Spiceworks's new State of the SMB report – – nice use of aggregate data for analysis!
• IBM integrates Salesforce.com, UPS and Skype with LotusLive | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
  What's interesting to track here is the speed and variety of integrations at an affordable price. Integrating just any old whacky IT thingy or service that came along for on-prem systems would be tedious and not cool. Do it with a SaaS, and hopefully it's cheaper, faster, and, thus, possible for most companies.
• Adobe to sue Apple 'within weeks,' says report
• Austin's Spredfast raises $1.6 million | Starting Up
  Tracking your social media efforts: "Spredfast’s software lets clients plan, execute and monitor online campaigns across multiple social media outlets, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogging platforms."
• Startup pushes Hadoop via spreadsheet
  "DAS is available via subscription at $1,000 per server per month, or perpetual licenses at roughly three times that cost plus support. There is no limit on the number of users or usage. The product will be generally available in September."
• Dell taking smartphone business to new areas
• Another Product from Live Oak 360; BearHug | AustinStartup
• Gartner Says IT Organisations Will Spend More Money on Private Cloud Computing Investments Than on Offerings From Public Cloud Providers Through 2012
  "Despite the economies of scale offered by public cloud providers, private cloud services will prevail for the foreseeable future while public cloud offerings mature, according to Gartner, Inc. Through 2012, IT organizations will spend more money on private cloud computing investments than on offerings from public cloud providers."
• Analyzing public-cloud logs and transactions | Software, Interrupted – CNET News
  Worrying about things costs money. The cloud is supposed to make you not have to worry about all these "enterprisey" things, but then people want to worry about them… and then you're just optimizing, not clouding.
• Open source SOA middleware growing in enterprise architecture amid hesitation
• ISACA US IT Risk/Reward Barometer Survey: More than 45% Say Risks of Cloud Computing Outweigh Benefits
  Interesting survey results about what enterprisey folks think about the risks of cloud computing. It's one of those glass half full/half empty ones: 45% say the risks of cloud are too great, while 38% say the risks and benefits are balanced (17% are gung-ho for cloud). What's 7% among friends?
• Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise – Enterprise Cloud Computing: Pitfalls, Puzzles, and Great Rewards
• Get Ready For Twitter to Start Animating Machines – Advertising Age – DigitalNext
  Using Twitter as a notification bus with your (mostly consumery) customers.
• Fancy Hands – Request on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  My first @FancyHands task, more info on managing cloud computing:
• RightScale Extends its Cloud Management to Grid Computing on Amazon Web Services
• Cote on Consumer to Enterprise « Adventures in systems land
  Mark explains further Dell's use of REST stuff in parts of their management stack.

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.