links for 2009-06-24

morbid? maybe. probably. but something we all should – and i will – think about.

could not agree more, which is why i'm such a fan of Yubnub

good to see the Force.com folks not reinventing the wheel

not a match for the Azure/Visual Studio blend yet, but interesting

this is old news, but another indication of why companies need and should be hiring (and empowering) good community managers

not for me it didn't. the latest Jaunty updates broke Compiz a week or two back and i haven't been able to reactivate them. apparently the Intel GMA 4500 hardware doesn't play nice.

"Mike Evans, vice president of corporate development at the open-source technology provider Red Hat, compares clouds today to the earliest online communities, such as CompuServe and America Online. "They were all siloed communities," he says. "You couldn't necessarily inter­operate with anybody else until the openness of the Internet came along." Evans believes that open-source projects are "critical" to establishing standards that would encourage more companies to use cloud technology.

Two broadly supported open-source projects may help pave the way for such standards. Eucalyptus, which uses an interface familiar to those experienced with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, provides the means to create a cloud either within a private data center or with resources from a cloud provider. And Hadoop imitates elements of Google's system for handling large amounts of data. "

"For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now."

"The latest Evans Data North American Development Survey found that 14 percent of developers in the region use Ruby part of the time, an increase from the 10 percent who used it this way in 2008. Meanwhile, 20 percent of developers expect to use it in the coming year."

this is a fantastic interview. if Kundra [and the community] is able to execute on even a quarter of the promise here, we're all going to be well rewarded