As I mentioned last week, I put together a feed for all of our RedMonk links, or bookmarks like the below. It’s definitely more real-time that waiting for my batch of links – not to mention that the RedMonk Links feed includes links from James, Stephen, and Tom. Nonetheless, I’ll keep posting these below. But, if you’re eager for more, uh, “timely” postings, subscribe to the RedMonk Links feed!
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- Kelly on Technology and What Technology Wants | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
I usually find this kind of "pop-technology philosophy" annoying, but this one was pretty good. - Marketers rethinking social media
- Business Booming, IBM Jacks Dividend, Share Buybacks
TPM's take: he'd rather see investment in tech and lowering Power pricing, but he knows Wall Street could give a damn about the actual, you know, product. - Microsoft's plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo | ZDNet
- Microsoft drafts .NET chief to lead Azure cloud war • The Register
- BMC buys app performance vendor Coradiant | The Industry Standard – InfoWorld
The web end-to-end monitoring space has so many new technologies now – it's curious to wonder why it's have such a renaissance. I suppose browser technologies are better, so there's a new wave of possibilities. And, lots of web apps and (soon) mobile out there? - Attachmate eyes cloud customers for Suse
'Attachmate also takes control over Novell's Mono business, which has placed Microsoft software development technologies available on non-Windows platforms, such as Linux. The company's Moonlight version of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in platform falls under the Mono domain. Hawn was not yet ready to comment on any development plans for Mono: "I haven't sorted through all of that yet."' - Wells Fargo Tech Transformation Summit | Dell
If you want to go cloud, you need to make your apps cloud-ready: "If you go to the full, large public cloud, you don't see — well, there's no 100 percent case but, typically, that's not through virtualization technology. That is through restructuring applications in a fundamentally different way to drive breakthrough efficiencies," –Brad Anderson, Senior Vice President of Dell’s Enterprise Product Group - CenturyLink to buy Savvis for $2.5B
People are saying we can expect CenturyLink to up it's visibility by doing more cloud-centric, business sales. - bizjournals mobile: Dayton: Report: Small businesses choosing iPad
- Spiceworks Bets $25 Million On IT Product Sourcing
I asked for a total of funding over these four rounds, and they sent over this: "$54 Million total in 4 rounds since 2006. In 2010,we received $16 million led by IVP with participation from Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. In 2007, we secured an $8 million Series B round led by Shasta Ventures with participation from Austin Ventures. Austin Ventures led a $5 million Series A round in 2006." - Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Results – Earnings Release FY11 Q3
- App-stores-in-the-enterprise kit spans Apple iOS and Android
Enterprises looking towards making their own, internal app stores. I hear about this a lot now-a-days. - New Florence. New Renaissance.: Random forests, nave Bayesian estimators, RESTful services oh my!
Jeff Bezos does some biz/IT alignment talk in the recent Amazon annual report. - Facebook's 'green' data center design to have ripple effect
"Huff points out that Facebook's data center and server designs were optimized for Facebook's application, so their designs may not be suitable for a typical enterprise customer, which runs hundreds of diverse applications in their data centers." - The Social Media Guide
"The report, a collaboration between Forrester Research and GSI Commerce, analyzed data captured from online retailers between November 12 and December 20, 2010. The research shows that social media rarely leads directly to purchases online — data indicates that less than 2% of orders were the result of shoppers coming from a social network. The report found email and search advertising were much more effective vehicles for turning browsers into buyers." - Photo
What's with the two watches? - The ASC: Spomenik—Jan Kempenaers and “The End of History” « John Bailey's Bailiwick
This stuff looks crazyweirdawesome. - Alcatel-Lucent Makes OpenPlug App Development Tools Free-for-All
- Boss Talk: Michael Dell Looks Beyond PC Business – WSJ.com – Andrew Lark
"WSJ: Are companies like Amazon and Facebook—because of their enormous scale—gaining power to dictate terms and drive profits out of the server business? Mr. Dell: It's not unlike how we would think of a flagship customer. Facebook will define a new requirement. Well, it turns out that there are 10 more companies that want the very same thing. And then after that there are a hundred more companies that want the same thing. If they're right about what they've defined, it benefits us and many other customers." - SAP and tablets
'SAP has rolled out 4k iPads, and 200 Playbooks "our competition doesn't have any Playbooks yet."' - Canonical Adds OpenStack Support to Ubuntu – ReadWriteCloud
- Sony admits utter PSN failure: your personal data has been stolen
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