Links for May 25th through May 31st

• A VC: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad
• Sam’s Club Tailors Sales Based on Shoppers’ Purchases – NYTimes.com
  It's like the Facebook privacy scandal except people love it cause they save $2. What's not spoken to here is the fact that you're also getting charges more: why can't everyone get $300 off a TV? Why just that group of shoppers? It's like I say: all roads lead to better junk-mail.
• Putting Online Privacy in Perspective – O'Reilly Radar
  A classic "you're myopic moron" response…that's right on.
• Reasons to think | Mark Vernon
• Management Software Sleeping Giants Awaken | Forrester Blogs
• PCWorld 5 Ways Steve Ballmer Can Save Microsoft's Mobile Bacon
  The suggestion to drop "Windows" from mobile name brands is actually
• Fanboi's lament – falling out of love with the iPad • The Register
• iA » WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger…
• CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Google's Revenue Comes From
• Hellraiser Dennis Hopper dies from cancer
• Red Dawn is being remade, but China ousts Russia as America's new enemy
• Teens and smartphones: Coolness is key ( – Consumer Electronics )
• IBM CEO May Step Down in 2011 in Historic Succession (Update1) – BusinessWeek
• SAP Planning to Open up On-demand Development Platform
• ActiveState and RedMonk Survey Shows More Than Half of Dynamic Language Developers Are Looking To Build Cloud-based Applications in Next Year
  Trying to get ahold of the types of languages used in the cloud. Here, it's the reverse – across 140 webinar attendees who were already dynamic language developers, many were thinking they'd do cloud-based deployments in the next 12 months.
• Practical Analysis: The Slog Toward Private Clouds — Cloud Computing — InformationWeek
  'Whereas 18% of survey respondents report using SaaS apps and another 31% say they're extremely likely to use SaaS, no other form of cloud computing shows even 10% using it or more than 20% extremely likely to use it in the near future. But more striking are the free-form comments we received. While a few commenters are quite certain about their attitudes on private clouds, most use hedge phrases like "might use," "could help," "too vague," "toying with," and "testing stage."'
• Goldman Sachs: Shift toward cloud unstoppable
• Investing in the cloud: evolution, not revolution
  Check out the mess (which vendors can then charge to clean-up) being created: "That's something that we've been talking about, that developers are more empowered now than they've ever been. Cloud computing has fundamentally taken control out of IT and put it back into the hands of the developer, and developers can take a credit card and do anything they want, basically. And all these services are available to them on a very componentized, elastic, pay-per-use basis. And I think that's created the shift in control back to the developers with a vengeance."
• Novell revenues drop as board seeks sale
  "In an IT market that is rebounding, and where its main Linux rival, Red Hat, continues to grow both revenues and profits, Novell's overall business and its SUSE Linux business – which just hit breakeven in the prior quarter after six years of being part of Novell – slumped in the second fiscal quarter ended in April."
• AT&T exec: 4 out of 10 of our iPhone sales to enterprises
  "So enterprises today view the iPhone as a mobile computer. It happens to have a voice application on it. But what’s important is what you can do with it, and the way you can mobilize workforces, and specific parts of your workforce, not the entire workforce." Also, cited as cheaper than a laptop and note the comment about software updating.
• On Rupert’s iPad: Times, Sky TV Show Different Charging Approaches
  "[Access to the Financial Times on the iPad is] £9.99 every 28 days. But (and here’s where it may fall down) – these payments don’t link up with website payments. That means anyone who is paying to access the website must also pay the extra tenner a month for the same content on iPad, and vice versa."
• Unix server sales sink; IDC cites a perfect storm
• Top Open Source ESB Projects | Architects Zone
• Dynamic Open Source Languages Head to the Cloud — Developer.com
• Introducing the Business Catalyst Platform | Adobe Developer Connection
  Hosted services to help tool websites used for business.
• The Engineering Behind Flash Player 10.1
  Details on Flash Player 10.1 improvements.
• edioma
  One of the companies I share office space with, pretty good idea: "edioma's edigo™ is a mobile phone based learning system designed for Spanish/English speaking persons who wish to communicate better. Each phrase kit contains 50 context-specific phrases for use on the job-site, at the bank, while shopping, visiting the doctor, traveling abroad, etc. With edigo, you can learn English/Spanish at your own pace and during your own free time!"
• Novell puts Identity Management into beta • The Register
• Building a Better Submission Form – Open Blog – NYTimes.com
• BMC Software Propels Customers, Partners to Cloud Computing Success with Unified Management Platform – BMC Software
• Bill Joy on Sun's downfall, Microsoft's prospects, green tech (Q&A) | Beyond Binary – CNET News
• DisplayPort
  "DisplayPort is a digital display interface standard put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) since 2006. It defines a new royalty-free, digital audio/video interconnect, intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display monitor, or a computer and a home-theater system."
• First In-N-Out Burger in Dallas is Approved for Garland Texas!!
  RT @toddewilliams: @caniszczyk Austin may get Formula-1, but Dallas gets In-n-Out Burger Don't despair, the compan …
• Formula One returns to the United States
  "…a historic agreement has been reached for Austin, Texas to serve as the host city of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™ for years 2012 through 2021."
• IBM's Moffat, Chiesi Were `Intimate,' U.S. Says
  Pillow-talk gone wrong, it seems: "Robert Moffat, the former International Business Machines Corp. executive who pleaded guilty in the Galleon Group LLC insider-trading scheme, had an 'intimate relationship' with accused tipster Danielle Chiesi, prosecutors said in court…. Moffat received 'no money or other financial benefit' from trades based on inside information, Lawrence said in court when his client pleaded guilty."
• Brownfield (software development)
  Somehow, I don't use this phrase, but it's a topic I talk about all the time.
• America's Most Innovative Cities
  Austin ranked #2, after Silicon Valley.
• Top Considerations for Moving IT Service Management to the Cloud whitepaper. [PDF]
  Whitepaper from BMC on figuring out doing cloud stuff.

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.