Coté's People Over Process

• Google’s new years revolution: Six products slashed or maimed » VentureBeat
  More details on the services Google is axing. Shame about Dodgeball, it was awesome before Google larded it.
• Salesforce.com Launches The Service Cloud, A Customer Service SaaS Application
• Google will lay off 100 recruiters, shift to fewer sites | InfoWorld | News | 2009-01-15 | By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
  Uh-oh: Google is like the RedHat of the larger tech world. Bad times for Google means super-bad times for the rest of the tech world.
• Salesforce launches Service Cloud
  So IntraNet is just software, not actual call center people?
• Austin360.com: Vote for the cutest couple in Central Texas
  Vote for Kim and I to be Austin's Cutest Couple!
• ACLU of Texas Legislative Blog: Welcome
  Kim's former employer, the ACLU of TX, has a nice new looking blog. Good for them!
• Put that in your box and ship it
  "What was telling about this article was not the subject matter, a router is a box connected to some pipes to which we attach fancy items. The interview was via instant message! No wonder VoIP is dying because we first text before we speak!" Get your instant messaging on!
• Joyent to buy open-source Google App Engine competitor – Network World
• unblab: Brief Email for Busy People
  Who're these people?
• Text Messaging Gone Wild
• Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging – ProBlogger
  Looks legit enough to refer it.
• For my tot loving friend @Cote on TwitPic
  This will blow your mind, so make sure there's no fluid in your mouth before you click.
• Justifying Your Investment in Open Source Monitoring :: GroundWork Open Source
  This should be interesting.
• Experiments With JavaFX Script
• Introducing ZiPEC – iPhone Event Console for Zenoss | Zenoss Blog
  How big of a difference does having an iPhone interface make in your IT management software choices, use, etc.? How about enterprise software in general?
• CES: Is Palm's Pre the new iPhone?
• JavaFX samples piling up
• Nortel bankruptcy filings are last-ditch effort – Network World
• Engine Yard powers SOA for the cloud
  "Vertebra is intended to orchestrate communication and coherent operations among autonomous agents in many clouds, the company said… Solo will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) on January 28 for $129 pre month as the starting price. Plans call for eventually extending the offering to other cloud platforms also. "
• Nokia adopts LGPL for Qt popularity • The Register
• Google Apps Reseller Program
  Details on the Google re-seller program.
• Google opens heart, Apps to channel • Channel Register
  Not quite the marketplace sort of thing I want to see more of (a la App Store), but resellin' ain't nothing to sniff at: "US resellers can expect an added shot in the arm with a 20 per cent discount on the $50 per user, per year price tag being offered."
• Role of social media in uncovering the Gartner and AMR analyst layoffs « SageCircle Blog
  Using Twitter, Facebook, etc. to track lay-offs, here, at large analyst firms.
• Garmin reveals program to chart cheapest route
  Figures out cheapest route from A to B given your cars gas milage. Nifty!
• Is SOA dead? « Adventures in systems land
  Someone needs to print up t-shirts that say: "I [hear] Transactions." I'd buy one…maybe.

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