{"id":2239,"date":"2009-02-09T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2009-02-09T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T06:00:05","slug":"links-for-february-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/02\/09\/links-for-february-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for February 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"deliciousLinks\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/forrester\/?p=142\">IBM gets serious about cloud computing | The View from Forrester Research | ZDNet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/bsm-appliance-saas-or-paas-an-approach-to-bsm-lite\/\">BSM Appliance, SaaS or PaaS an approach to BSM Lite? &mdash; dougmcclure.net<\/a><br \/>Should BSM be a cloud-hosted service, be it SaaS (no assembly required) or PaaS (get out your hex-driver, but its pretty simple)? Hell yes it should, without a doubt, full-speed ahead, order more coal for the engine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/got-bsm-participate-in-this-survey\/\">Got BSM? Participate in this Survey! &mdash; dougmcclure.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2009\/2\/sap-hp-consultants-know-what-theyre-doing-ibm-and-accenture-dont-sap-hpq\">SAP: HP Consultants Know What They&#039;re Doing, IBM And Accenture Don&#039;t (SAP, HPQ)<\/a><br \/>If your &quot;cloud&quot; and &quot;SaaS&quot; software ever gets to this point, then the cloud revolution has gone mainstream.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2008674386_blackculture27.html\">Obama&#039;s personality an easier sell to youth<\/a><br \/>Interestingly, by &quot;youth&quot; they mean &quot;hip-hop likers&quot;: &quot;He was criticized when he brushed his shoulder with his hand during a debate. It was a reference to a song by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z &#8212; an artist whose music Obama has said he has on his iPod &#8212; called &#039;Dirt Off Your Shoulder,&#039; referring to brushing off undue criticism that is hurled at you. And famously, Obama and his wife were questioned about the fist bump they gave each other, a common expression of congratulations.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickshawbags.com\/#\/products\/moleskine_folio\/\">RICKSHAW BAGWORKS \/ Products \/ Moleskine Folio<\/a><br \/>Man, that looks fancy. Maybe I should switch to a bigger Moleskine since I don&#039;t carry it around in my back-pocket anymore.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/life\/friendsfamily\/story\/584722.html\">&#039;Gramps like us, baby, we were born to run&#039;<\/a><br \/>&quot;But would it kill the NFL to book a Super Bowl halftime act that wasn&#039;t around when Nixon was impeached?&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ypulse.com\/teens-are-news-grazers-portals-are-their-pasture\">Teens Are News Grazers &amp; Portals Are Their Pasture<\/a><br \/>[Portals, man, portals]: &quot;    This new generation effortlessly juggles multiple media, and they don&#039;t think of going to a newspaper Web site first for news, adds Michael Smith, executive director of the Media Management Center and Readership Institute at Northwestern University. Aggregators like Google, AOL, and Yahoo, he says, &#039;are just as trusted as newspaper sites.&#039;\n<p>    Young people are &#039;grazers,&#039; according to a recent Readership Institute study, who don&#039;t go looking for news, but will stop to read &quot;if it catches my eye,&quot; or if they &#039;bump into something.&#039; That&#039;s a newspaper-friendly characteristic, Smith argues: &#039;They are placing enormous value on something newspapers hold dear &mdash; the value of serendipity, of reading stories we don&#039;t know we&#039;re interested in until we see them.&#039;<\/p>\n<p>    And yet, he adds, it&#039;s the portals who are meeting that need &mdash; not newspapers.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/27\/business\/media\/27adco.html\">Advertising &#8211; Teaching Teenagers About Harassment<\/a><br \/>A new thing for you to worry about: digital harassment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ypulse.com\/why-teens-havent-embraced-twitteryet\">Why Teens Haven&rsquo;t Embraced Twitter&hellip;Yet | Ypulse<\/a><br \/>&quot;As long as teens can update their status via MySpace and Facebook for their friends as well as IM and text, Twitter doesn&#039;t really add to the existing technology.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM gets serious about cloud computing | The View from Forrester Research | ZDNet.com BSM Appliance, SaaS or PaaS an approach to BSM Lite? &mdash; dougmcclure.netShould BSM be a cloud-hosted service, be it SaaS (no assembly required) or PaaS (get out your hex-driver, but its pretty simple)? 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