Links for February 26th through March 1st

A little something extra…

I spoke with a company who’s using HTML 5 for visualization in their upcoming, “enterprisey” product today. That is, they used the canvas tag instead of, say, Flash. This is one of the first times I’ve talked with a vendor who opted to use HTML 5 for that, and it seemed to work pretty well. Granted, they told me it was best in Safari or Chrome, but, hey.

They’re announcing and releasing sometime in the next few weeks. I’ll be sure to point them out again.

The Links

• SCALE 8x Keynote #2
  “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business” presented by Tarus Balog…
• The Extended Enterprise – from vision to reality with Rich Internet Application technology
• Making government more open and social
  Dion sums up social software mandates and adoption in US federal government – open data access too.
• Zenoss Community Day – Austin, TX – Apr 09, 2010
• AT&T says its network will be ready for SXSW this time
  AT&T says the bandwidth and QoS at SXSW will be better this year: fantastic!
• Drug War Insurgent — the reality-tv show
  Of tech culture note, this is interesting for how web/new media is used to promote his cause, including this very typing. Gonzo transparancy?
• City of Houston Success Story – Commercial Open Source Application, Systems, and Network Monitoring – Zenoss
  Zenoss used to manage 250+ routers for Houston Airport System.
• No more free lunches
  Dennis is one of the few people who can probably pull off charging for content. He's opinionated and informed enough to have thoughts and analysis people would pay to see – not to mention that in his field of ERP, accounting, and "enterprise," people are still used to paying for things.
• Apple Says Underage Workers Were Used by Suppliers to Build iPhone, iPod
  The tragic part – as I type this in a iPhone – is that the acceptable practices would be considered barbaric back home here: “Apple’s Code sets a maximum of 60 work hours per week and requires at least one day of rest per seven days of work."
• Gordon Brown on Course to Lead Minority U.K. Government, YouGov Poll Shows
• The iPhone’s Peephole
  Good wrap up of different Apple control apologists. We're spending a lot of time on this as an industry. Apple is taking the role played by Microsoft before open source and the web came along.
• Wall Street Firms, Hedge Funds, Recruit CIA, Ex-Military Intelligence
  Total cyberpunk.
• Brightkite: 2 Million Users And A Lot Of Local Promo Interest

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