--- title: links for 2007-02-21 date: 2007-02-21T07:28:12Z modified: 2007-02-21T07:28:12Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/links-for-2007-02-21/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 914 categories: - Uncategorized timestamp: 2007-02-21T07:28:12Z tags: - Uncategorized --- - [Cool Hunting: Marmite Guinness](http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/02/marmite_guinnes.php) Marmite Guinness? Surely not? I am definitely buying some – now that is what i call a mashup. (tags: [comedy](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/comedy) [marmite](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/marmite) [guiness](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/guiness) [via:webmink](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/via:webmink)) - [KiteTail: innovation management for growth » Blog Archive Difference Between Entrepreneurs and Criminals | KiteTail: innovation management for growth](http://blog.kitetail.com/2007/02/11/difference-between-entrepreneurs-and-criminals/#comment-200) how are entrepreneurs like criminals? You need to take risks and have no fear; You need persistence and staying, You don’t want to work for a boss; You need the right connections and need to know your market in order to supply that market with what it w (tags: [crime](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/crime) [entrepreneurs](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/entrepreneurs)) - [‘I could drive a truck through SAP’s cracks’ – RightNow – Applications – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com](http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39165804,00.htm?r=1) this guy gets more air-time than he deserves, in my opinion. he would rather make a $25m loss than be in SAP’s shoes- sure he would. Since when was making a loss better than single digit growth on a multi-billion dollar business. Back to 1999? On the othe (tags: [SaaS](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/SaaS) [RightNow](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/RightNow)) - [DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.](http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070219/) Daniel Robbins returns to Gentoo (tags: [Gentoo](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Gentoo) [Ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Ubuntu)) - [hello to you!](http://www.funtoo.org/drobbins/blog/index.html) that is what i call a bio: “The guy who created Gentoo Linux, worked for Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Group, and wrote lots of IBM developerWorks articles.” (tags: [biography](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/biography) [web2.0](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/web2.0) [Gentoo](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Gentoo)) - [hello to you!: The push to remove non-free graphics drivers](http://www.funtoo.org/drobbins/blog/2007/02/push-to-remove-non-free-graphics.html) awesome post. Daniel comes at the GPL from the derivative works perspective, which is a good one. I have been thinking lately the furore over “fake” OSS licenses, which require attribution, needs more of this kind of thinking. A merger of GPL and creative (tags: [GPL](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/GPL) [OSS](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/OSS) [CreativeCommons](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/CreativeCommons)) - [For Yale’s Money Man, a Higher Calling – New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/business/yourmoney/18swensen.html?dlbk) the contribution society in action. its not what you take out its what you put in. (tags: [contributionsociety](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/contributionsociety)) - [Notable Blogs: Smalltalk meets Vista and .NET](http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41442) “A recent addition to the list of notable blogs is Peter Fisk’s VistaSmalltalk blog. This Canada-based, long-time Smalltalk hand has set about to explore the ways in which the venerable Smalltalk programming language can work with Microsoft’s .NET cla (tags: [Smalltalk](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Smalltalk) [Vista](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Vista)) - [Comparing Flash and WPF « Microsoft .Net and Smalltalk](http://vistasmalltalk.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/comparing-flash-and-wpf/) very nice. this comes from someone with no axe to grind. “Adobe’s documentation is much better than Microsoft’s – better organized and visually more appealing” (tags: [Smalltalk](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Smalltalk) [Vista](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Vista) [Adobe](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Adobe) [WPF](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/WPF) [Flash](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Flash)) - [Zenoss Blog » LDAP Ate my Brainz](http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/02/19/ldap-ate-my-brainz/) this post is truly designed to be picked up by Cote (tags: [PHP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/PHP) [LDAP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/LDAP) [Brains](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Brains)) - [Duke Listens! : Weblog](http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/on_to_javaone) music dorkorama at java one: “My presentation proposal for JavaOne: Search Inside the Music: Using Signal Processing, Machine Learning and 3-D Visualizations to Discover New Music has been accepted by the JavaOne program committee.” (tags: [Music](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Music) [Java](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Java)) - [A real Silicon Valley garage startup « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger](http://scobleizer.com/2007/02/20/a-real-silicon-valley-garage-startup/) never mind mommybloggers here come the mommyfounders. Cool. who needs the pop in mom and pop shop anyway? (tags: [startups](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/startups) [mothers](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/mothers)) - [The geeky “sister” behind Vatican’s Website « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger](http://scobleizer.com/2007/02/19/the-geeky-sister-behind-vaticans-website/) One for the RedNun- a sister at the vatican. Scoble is on a mission to help bring women in tech to light. (tags: [women](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/women)) - [Open Source Weblog: February 2007 Archives](http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/index.html#000429) Why Dell is likely to reassess its Linux thinking. Ignoring users in favour of we know best would be bad juju for Dell at this time. Mark Shuttleworth should get on the phone… (tags: [Dell](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Dell) [OSS](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/OSS)) - [Watching the ODF – OOXML Debate – O’Reilly XML Blog](http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/02/watching_the_odf_ooxml_debate.html) Kurt Kagle is someone who I greatly respect. Here he takes a good dispassionate view of the ODF OOXML issue. “With regards to ODF and OOXML, the ISO process is indicating that a standard is and should be something that represents a common ground for every (tags: [XML](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/XML) [ODF](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/ODF) [OpenXML](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/OpenXML) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Microsoft) [OpenOffice](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/OpenOffice)) - [Logic+Emotion: Could Advertising Pollute Twitter?](http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2007/02/could_advertisi.html) oh crap – you know advertising will come to twitter sooner or later (tags: [Twitter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Twitter)) - [Jeff Jonas: To Anonymize or Not to Anonymize, That is the Question](http://jeffjonas.typepad.com/jeff_jonas/2007/02/to_anonymize_or.html) Jeff is on the money – although i still think he’s holding out too much hope of private, well run, infobanks. (tags: [anonymisation](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/anonymisation)) - [Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Why You Shouldn’t Use Twitter to Manage Your To Do List «](http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/19/why-you-shouldnt-use-twitter-to-manage-your-to-do-list/) Twitter is just a telepathy tool. We have now entered the “no beetle in the box telepathy age”. twitter is just a manifestation. what we say we think is indeed what we think, our desires are not private, any more than our emotions are. (tags: [Twitter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Twitter) [declarativeliving](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/declarativeliving)) - [ARcade : Top 10 Ways to Spot an AR Professional at a Cocktail Party](http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/arcade/archive/2007/02/19/7253.aspx) A classic from the Hill and Knowlton AR Team. Well done folks. I particularly like number one. (tags: [comedy](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/comedy) [AR](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/AR)) - [About : Visit MIX07](http://visitmix.com/about/) Does Microsoft invite analysts or cool bloggers or who? We’d love some attention, folks. Its right in our coverage areas (tags: [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Microsoft) [MIX](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/MIX)) - [Planix Keeps Your 2.0 Project on Budget](http://mashable.com/2007/02/19/planix/) a Web 2.0 SaaS software project planning definition startup… Towards a “basecamp’ for software projects? wonder if its built in Rails. (tags: [SaaS](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/SaaS)) - [Google Video Search vs Gootube – which will win ? – Blog Maverick](http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/02/19/google-video-search-vs-gootube-which-will-win/) “do no evil has become see no evil” – nailed. (tags: [google](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/google) [googlefear](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/googlefear))