Links for February 25th through March 4th

• DC Water creates a smarter utility service with IBM (08/30/2010)
  "Using IBM® Maximo® Asset Management in combination with ESRI GIS software, DC Water staff can view the location and condition of each asset on a detailed map and can quickly access asset history, total asset cost, number of problems in specific areas, and even water quality issues by type and area."
• Textastic – Syntax highlighting text editor, FTP, SFTP, Dropbox – for iPad
  Man, if I needed a programmer friendly text editor on the iPad, for $10 this would do it.
• OpenStack Governance Update — The OpenStack Blog
  Going to an election system, mostly.
• IT Services and Systems Management – Freeform Community Research
  "A look at the practicalities in medium sized businesses."
• iTunes App Store generated $3 billion in sales | asymco
  "We do know for certain however that the app store generated $2.86 billion in sales if $2 billion was paid out."
• Mobile Innovation, Growth Driven by Open Source, According to Data from Black… — WALTHAM, Mass., March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —
  "Black Duck's latest metrics concerning open source traction in mobile development confirm the importance of market opportunity for developer traction," said Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst at RedMonk. "In concentrating on the Android and iOS platforms, developers are advantaging two differentiated platforms. While Android may be open source and iOS closed, they are both volume platforms, which indicates that developer pragmatism is alive and well."
• Guess Our Most Popular Mobile Platform
• Twitter / @Dan Creswell: Every time you ship you're …
  "Every time you ship you're running an experiment. Make sure you capture enough data to learn something new."
• Deal of the Week: BBS takes its campus to new heights | Real Estate | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
  "BBS' annual revenue has reached about $30 million, after growing from 30 percent to 50 percent each year recently, Pleczko said."
• IBM Regains Leadership Position in Servers in Fourth Quarter of 2010 – United States
  "…it regained the number one position as the leading server vendor in the fourth quarter of 2010, capturing 35.5 percent revenue market share."
• A VC: Marketing
  Just keep in mind he says this is mostly not for "enterprise."
• The Big Shift from Search to Social

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