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title: links for 2008-04-04
date: 2008-04-04T23:35:47Z
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- [Salesforce.com’s Benioff bests SAP’s Plattner in debate | Outside the Lines – CNET News.com](http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9911262-80.html)
    
    great knockabouts stuff from Benioff and Plattner. Thanks Dan for capturing this debate.
    
    (tags: [SAP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/SAP) [salesfrorce.com](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/salesfrorce.com))
- [Seesmic + Twhirl is a Vision of the Web’s Future – ReadWriteWeb](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/seesmic_twhirl.php)
    
    I haven’t caught the seesmic bug and i don’t use offline twitter clients. other than that this is an interesting story. The XMPP angle is probably most interesting.
    
    (tags: [seesmic](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/seesmic) [Thwirl](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Thwirl) [XMPP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/XMPP))
- [The immediacy of PHP](http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/23-the-immediacy-of-php)
    
    DHH on PHP. interesting. “good for scaling down”.
    
    (tags: [DHH](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/DHH) [PHP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/PHP))
- [IBM Partners Blocked from Rational Conference](http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/IBM-Partners-Blocked-From-Rational-Conference/)
    
    Why is IBM afraid to compete in the tools software marketplace? This approach (elbowing out competitors) is short-sighted and wrong-headed. Genuitec and IBM are both redmonk clients.
    
    (tags: [IBM](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/IBM) [Genuitec](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Genuitec))
- [FT.com / Business Life – Music fans tune into sound benefits of ‘punter equity’](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/caba985c-0196-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1)
    
    the future of the market business. We the AR man. Far more like open source models
    
    (tags: [musicindustry](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/musicindustry))
- [Best Data Center World Ever! / Microsoft Glasnost « The Digital Cave](http://techhermit.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/best-data-center-world-ever-microsoft-glasnost/)
    
    More Microsoft Glasnost. Here on the data center side.
    
    (tags: [via:robbernard](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/via:robbernard) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Microsoft) [datacenter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/datacenter))
- [lo-fi librarian» Blog Archive » 58 Twitter Apps (and then some)](http://www.lo-fi-librarian.co.uk/?p=878)
    
    a mess of twitter tools. no twitter avatar archiving (chinposin) though
    
    (tags: [avatars](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/avatars) [twitter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/twitter))