Links for November 29th through December 3rd

• Austin app startup explodes on scene
  "Most large businesses initially created mobile applications that were smaller versions of their websites. But that first wave is over, and enterprises are now focused on developing mobile applications that are more functional for users of smartphones and tablet computers, said Michael Coté, an Austin-based analyst for RedMonk."
• Screw it – Travelling and not arriving
  A startup exec gets denied re-entrance to the US. No good.
• Revenge Effects in Email
  Email gardening never ends. It's good to put the slider on ruthless, though.
• Guest post: Symbian OS – one of the most successful failures in tech history
  "The lesson for Meego, and other pretenders to the crown is, perhaps to look after your developers with useful APIs and powerful tools both inside and outside of your organisation. Find the right balance between efficiency and ease of development. Look after all of your developers and your developers will look after you."
• Nokia’s Green Seeks to Regain Edge as Android Grows
• Learn More | Uber
  At an $8 flag drop and then $4.90 a mile it's not a "great deal" at all, but it's an interesting idea for a car service.
• Kenny Van Zant Joins Board of Directors at Puppet Labs | Puppet Labs
• Tasktop 1.8 Connects Development to Agile ALM With New Support for HP Quality Center, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and IBM Rational Team Concert 3.0
• Red Hat Acquires Makara
• Disney's Earnings Leak Sprung From Goofy Mistake
  "The error is using security by obscurity, as they say, which means hiding the data instead of really securing it," said Michael Coté, a software industry analyst with technology research firm RedMonk. "It's like putting your valuables under the bed instead of in a safe."
• Legacy-Loving Attachmate Shells Out $2.2 Billion for Novell
  It is hard to say what affect the Novell acquisition will have on the Power Systems business. SUSE Linux has not exactly taken the Power-based servers by storm, but does pretty much own the couple thousand mainframe shops that run Linux on System z mainframes. It would be very interesting to see Attachmate use SUSE Linux and the Mono .NET runtime environment to host some .NET applications natively on Power-based servers. But that is probably just my pipe dream, not Attachmate's.

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.