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- Google and the Wisdom of Clouds
Hopefully John can summarize this piece for my on this week's IT Management Podcast, cause I can't stand to read another glowing piece on Google, as much as I adore the company and their SaaS's myself.
- rumbustious
"Uncontrollably exuberant; unruly."
- Global Neighbourhoods: Twitterville Notebook: Redmonk's James Governor
"There are other analysts using Twitter and social media. Some even have larger numbers of followers. But RedMonk seems to have Twitter as its central spine. The communications they have with each other are often right out there in Twitterville where the rest of us can see it."
- H+ Magazine
Bruce Sterling says they're taking cues from Mondo 2000. Oh, hey! RU Sirius is the editor. OK, sold!
- Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book
"Michael Muhammad Knight, the author of “The Taqwacores,” which a college professor has called “The Catcher in the Rye” for young Muslims."
- To scale, must TechCrunch become old media?
"I know from blogging that content has a short shelf life. If you can squeeze more than a day's value from posts, you're defying gravity. Because content's value is so fleeting, however, it means you have to relentlessly publish more often, as Arrington does."
- VMware goes open source with desktop virtualization release – Network World
- Sun angles cloud-on-credit-card play
"The executives compared cloud to open source, where code for products such as Sun's MySQL are downloaded per developers' needs without jumping through corporate hoops." FTW on that one, buddy.
- VMware releases open source VDI client – Gabe Knuth – BrianMadden.com
Among other things, interesting that they're hosting the project at Google Code.
- Kace embeds patching capabilities in systems management appliance
"KBOX Systems Management Appliance 4.3 is priced starting at $9,900 for the first 100 managed nodes, PCs and servers."
- 3Tera brings Windows to its cloud
- Citi Says Amazon Sold 500,000 Kindles Last Year; $1.2 Billion Business Next Year | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
"But Mark Mahaney thinks he knows: The Citigroup analyst estimates that Amazon (AMZN) sold 500,000 devices last year. And he figures that the Kindle, which he delights in calling the 'iPod of the Book World,' will become a $1.2 billion business by 2010."
- Spiceworks Embeds Social Networking Features into Free IT Management Software
- Zend names its co-founder as new CEO
- Crossing the Agile Development experts « Total Immersion
Jon replies to the tar-and-feathering.
- Rich Internet apps that double as desktop apps | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-03 | By Martin Heller, Computerworld
Nice round-up of desktop/synchornized web enabled RIA platforms: AIR, Curl, Silverlight, and Google Gears.
- Cisco delivers security, storage and unified communications for small business – Network World
Cisco's all purpose appliance for the SMB space. Coming soon to the enterprise, no doubt.
- Blogger Infighting Played a Role, Says TechCrunch Founder – Digits – WSJ.com
"TechCrunch had 650,000 unique visitors last month, up from just 397,000 a year earlier, according to comScore."
- Mumboe Revs Software
- Sun Muscles into RIA Space with JavaFX
- Dell OpenManage and Dell Managment Console « Adventures in systems land
Sign up for a webinar to learn about Dell's IT management plans with their OpenManage product.
- RIA Platform Judo: Install Java/JavaFX using Flash?
"That’s cool and all, but we’re (mostly) JVM partisans here, so the inevitable question is: why doesn’t Sun use the same mechanism [Flash] to drive deployment of the latest and greatest JRE/JavaFX? Flash functionally has 100% penetration, so it makes tons of sense to use it to make it trivial to get the JRE out there, at which point Java’s “native” update functionality can take over."
- US House OKs Obama's IT stimulus
Please form a line on the right! "The main reason why the IT industry cares about the stimulus bill is that it has provisions to computerize the record keeping at doctors' offices and hospitals that don't have it, expansion of broadband Internet service to the 40 per cent of households in the country that don't have it, and research and development into giving the electrical grid an electronic IQ upgrade so it is smarter about distributing juice and also makes us smarter about how we use it. The bill that passed the House has $37bn in IT network infrastructure spending."
- Feds: IT admin plotted to erase Fannie Mae
- So why exactly did Citrix invest in Virtual Computer? – Brian Madden – BrianMadden.com
Managing the virtualized desktop.
- Silverlight 3 and 4 to 'open up new areas' – Microsoft • The Register
H.264, better forms & data integration, etc.
- InfoQ: Clojure Brings STM, LISP to the JVM
- McAfee builds SaaS arm
"The new unit will include all McAfee products delivered over the Internet, including security scanning, Web and e-mail security, and remote managed host-based software and hardware."
- TweetValue | How much is your Twitter profile worth?
"Your Twitter profile is worth: $1357."
- Gizmox offering RIA tool for Silverlight, AJAX
"More than 30,000 Visual WebGui applications have been deployed at such companies as IBM and SAP."
- Michael Dell Trims the Fat From His Portfolio – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
Who knew Dell was an IHOP investor?
- Adobe claims Apple 'collaboration' on iPhone Flash • The Register
- Sony unveils vein-identification for security screening » VentureBeat
It's raining bio-metrics and privacy stuff today!
- Novell may make more acquisitions to fill product line | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-02 | By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
"The company will look at acquisitions in the areas of open source software as well as software for datacenters and identity management, Hovsepian said." Yeah, I bet they're looking at all of the "Little 4" and friends, eh?
- Finland fingerprints all Finns and foreigns
On the tail of the Google Privacy exec getting arrested, we have this. Brilliant juxtaposition.
- Asus unwraps 10in Eee with 9.5-hour battery life
- Tech layoffs leave H-1B holders in vulnerable position | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-03 | By Sindya Bhanoo, The Industry Standard
- Google privacy exec faces criminal charges in Italy
Imagine what would happen if all those backup tapes left in the back-seat with thousands of personal records had similar consequences.
- Leading futurists, thinkers to launch Silicon Valley university | Cutting Edge – CNET News
Studying the evolution of SkyNet.
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