{"id":4750,"date":"2010-05-31T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2010-05-31T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:01:52","slug":"links-for-may-25th-through-may-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/05\/31\/links-for-may-25th-through-may-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for May 25th through May 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"deliciousLinks\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2010\/05\/i-prefer-safari-to-content-apps-on-the-ipad.html\">A VC: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/31\/business\/31loyalty.html?pagewanted=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Sam&rsquo;s Club Tailors Sales Based on Shoppers&rsquo; Purchases &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><br \/>It&#039;s like the Facebook privacy scandal except people love it cause they save $2. What&#039;s not spoken to here is the fact that you&#039;re also getting charges more: why can&#039;t everyone get $300 off a TV? Why just that group of shoppers? It&#039;s like I say: all roads lead to better junk-mail.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2010\/05\/putting-online-privacy-in-perspective.html\">Putting Online Privacy in Perspective &#8211; O&#039;Reilly Radar<\/a><br \/>A classic &quot;you&#039;re myopic moron&quot; response&#8230;that&#039;s right on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/belief\/2010\/may\/30\/guardian-hay-festival-religion\">Reasons to think | Mark Vernon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forrester.com\/glenn_odonnell\/10-05-27-management_software_sleeping_giants_awaken\">Management Software Sleeping Giants Awaken | Forrester Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/197418\/5_ways_steve_ballmer_can_save_microsofts_mobile_bacon.html\">PCWorld 5 Ways Steve Ballmer Can Save Microsoft&#039;s Mobile Bacon<\/a><br \/>The suggestion to drop &quot;Windows&quot; from mobile name brands is actually<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/05\/28\/ipad_love_affair_goes_sour\/\">Fanboi&#039;s lament &ndash; falling out of love with the iPad &bull; The Register<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/informationarchitects.jp\/wired-on-ipad-just-like-a-paper-tiger\/\">iA &raquo; WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger&hellip;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-in-case-you-had-any-doubts-about-where-googles-revenue-comes-from-2010-2\">CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Google&#039;s Revenue Comes From<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2010\/may\/30\/hellraiser-dennis-hopper-dies-cancer\">Hellraiser Dennis Hopper dies from cancer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/may\/30\/red-dawn-remake-china\">Red Dawn is being remade, but China ousts Russia as America&#039;s new enemy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.idg.no\/cw\/art.cfm?id=DF9CFC2D-1A64-6A71-CE5BEE28CE0D6E8A\">Teens and smartphones: Coolness is key ( &#8211; Consumer Electronics )<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-28\/ibm-ceo-may-step-down-in-2011-in-historic-succession-update1-.html\">IBM CEO May Step Down in 2011 in Historic Succession (Update1) &#8211; BusinessWeek<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/184104\/sap_planning_to_open_up_ondemand_development_platform.html\">SAP Planning to Open up On-demand Development Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/press-releases\/activestate-and-redmonk-survey-shows-more-half-dynamic-language-developers-are-lookin\">ActiveState and RedMonk Survey Shows More Than Half of Dynamic Language Developers Are Looking To Build Cloud-based Applications in Next Year<\/a><br \/>Trying to get ahold of the types of languages used in the cloud. Here, it&#039;s the reverse &#8211; across 140 webinar attendees who were already dynamic language developers, many were thinking they&#039;d do cloud-based deployments in the next 12 months.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/software\/hosted\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224900576&amp;subSection=Hosted+Software\">Practical Analysis: The Slog Toward Private Clouds &#8212; Cloud Computing &#8212; InformationWeek<\/a><br \/>&#039;Whereas 18% of survey respondents report using SaaS apps and another 31% say they&#039;re extremely likely to use SaaS, no other form of cloud computing shows even 10% using it or more than 20% extremely likely to use it in the near future. But more striking are the free-form comments we received. While a few commenters are quite certain about their attitudes on private clouds, most use hedge phrases like &quot;might use,&quot; &quot;could help,&quot; &quot;too vague,&quot; &quot;toying with,&quot; and &quot;testing stage.&quot;&#039;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13846_3-10453066-62.html\">Goldman Sachs: Shift toward cloud unstoppable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2010\/05\/investing-in-the-cloud-not-revolution-but-evolution.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">Investing in the cloud: evolution, not revolution<\/a><br \/>Check out the mess (which vendors can then charge to clean-up) being created: &quot;That&#039;s something that we&#039;ve been talking about, that developers are more empowered now than they&#039;ve ever been. Cloud computing has fundamentally taken control out of IT and put it back into the hands of the developer, and developers can take a credit card and do anything they want, basically. And all these services are available to them on a very componentized, elastic, pay-per-use basis. And I think that&#039;s created the shift in control back to the developers with a vengeance.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/05\/28\/novell_q2_f2010_numbers\/\">Novell revenues drop as board seeks sale<\/a><br \/>&quot;In an IT market that is rebounding, and where its main Linux rival, Red Hat, continues to grow both revenues and profits, Novell&#039;s overall business and its SUSE Linux business &#8211; which just hit breakeven in the prior quarter after six years of being part of Novell &#8211; slumped in the second fiscal quarter ended in April.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/btl\/at-t-exec-4-out-of-10-of-our-iphone-sales-to-enterprises\/35145\">AT&amp;T exec: 4 out of 10 of our iPhone sales to enterprises<\/a><br \/>&quot;So enterprises today view the iPhone as a mobile computer. It happens to have a voice application on it. But what&rsquo;s important is what you can do with it, and the way you can mobilize workforces, and specific parts of your workforce, not the entire workforce.&quot; Also, cited as cheaper than a laptop and note the comment about software updating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-on-ruperts-ipad-times-sky-tv-show-different-charging-approaches\/\">On Rupert&rsquo;s iPad: Times, Sky TV Show Different Charging Approaches<\/a><br \/>&quot;[Access to the Financial Times on the iPad is] &pound;9.99 every 28 days. But (and here&rsquo;s where it may fall down) &#8211; these payments don&rsquo;t link up with website payments. That means anyone who is paying to access the website must also pay the extra tenner a month for the same content on iPad, and vice versa.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/networking\/unix-server-sales-sink-idc-cites-perfect-storm-380\">Unix server sales sink; IDC cites a perfect storm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/architects.dzone.com\/news\/top-open-source-esbs\">Top Open Source ESB Projects | Architects Zone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.developer.com\/features\/article.php\/3884481\/Dynamic-Open-Source-Languages-Head-to-the-Cloud.htm\">Dynamic Open Source Languages Head to the Cloud &mdash; Developer.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/logged_in\/echan_bc.html\">Introducing the Business Catalyst Platform | Adobe Developer Connection<\/a><br \/>Hosted services to help tool websites used for business.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/2010\/05\/engineering_flash_player.html\">The Engineering Behind Flash Player 10.1<\/a><br \/>Details on Flash Player 10.1 improvements.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edioma.com\/home.php?languagePreference=English\">edioma<\/a><br \/>One of the companies I share office space with, pretty good idea: &quot;edioma&#039;s edigo&trade; is a mobile phone based learning system designed for Spanish\/English speaking persons who wish to communicate better. Each phrase kit contains 50 context-specific phrases for use on the job-site, at the bank, while shopping, visiting the doctor, traveling abroad, etc. With edigo, you can learn English\/Spanish at your own pace and during your own free time!&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/05\/24\/novell_idm4_beta\/\">Novell puts Identity Management into beta &bull; The Register<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/open.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/25\/building-a-better-submission-form\/\">Building a Better Submission Form &#8211; Open Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/news\/press-releases\/2010\/bmc-propels-customers-partners-to-cloud-computing-success-with-unified-management-platform.html\">BMC Software Propels Customers, Partners to Cloud Computing Success with Unified Management Platform &#8211; BMC Software<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-20005814-56.html\">Bill Joy on Sun&#039;s downfall, Microsoft&#039;s prospects, green tech (Q&amp;A) | Beyond Binary &#8211; CNET News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DisplayPort\">DisplayPort<\/a><br \/>&quot;DisplayPort is a digital display interface standard put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) since 2006. It defines a new royalty-free, digital audio\/video interconnect, intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display monitor, or a computer and a home-theater system.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sidedish.dmagazine.com\/2010\/05\/24\/first-in-n-out-burger-in-texas-is-approved-for-garland\">First In-N-Out Burger in Dallas is Approved for Garland Texas!!<\/a><br \/>RT @toddewilliams: @caniszczyk Austin may get Formula-1, but Dallas gets In-n-Out Burger Don&#039;t despair, the compan &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.formula1.com\/news\/headlines\/2010\/5\/10824.html\">Formula One returns to the United States<\/a><br \/>&quot;&#8230;a historic agreement has been reached for Austin, Texas to serve as the host city of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix&trade; for years 2012 through 2021.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/preview.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-05-21\/ex-ibm-manager-moffat-accused-tipster-chiesi-were-intimate-u-s-says.html\">IBM&#039;s Moffat, Chiesi Were `Intimate,&#039; U.S. Says<\/a><br \/>Pillow-talk gone wrong, it seems: &quot;Robert Moffat, the former International Business Machines Corp. executive who pleaded guilty in the Galleon Group LLC insider-trading scheme, had an &#039;intimate relationship&#039; with accused tipster Danielle Chiesi, prosecutors said in court&#8230;. Moffat received &#039;no money or other financial benefit&#039; from trades based on inside information, Lawrence said in court when his client pleaded guilty.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brownfield_(software_development)\">Brownfield (software development)<\/a><br \/>Somehow, I don&#039;t use this phrase, but it&#039;s a topic I talk about all the time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/05\/24\/patents-funding-jobs-technology-innovative-cities.html\">America&#039;s Most Innovative Cities<\/a><br \/>Austin ranked #2, after Silicon Valley.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topconsiderationssaasna.accessbmc.com\/thanks.aspx\">Top Considerations for Moving IT Service Management to the Cloud whitepaper. [PDF]<\/a><br \/>Whitepaper from BMC on figuring out doing cloud stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a> for clients mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A VC: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad Sam&rsquo;s Club Tailors Sales Based on Shoppers&rsquo; Purchases &#8211; NYTimes.comIt&#039;s like the Facebook privacy scandal except people love it cause they save $2. 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