With Technology, Things Can Get Pretty Ugly in an Instant, too.

First things first. Phelps. Drowning in Gold. Greatest?

Ugly side of things. Cyberattacks: Tech at War

iphone is now a BestBuy. En Masse. Sale!!!

All Cloud:
Before everything else, cloud questions. Is it right for you?
It still means cloudy. Rackspace now gets it via the ugly route.

Down? Not Cloud PC, too? Cherry Pal may take longer... Arghh. And not to take this sitting down, Asus Eee goes for cloud storage. Way to gooooo.

Cloud to Mist, Pffft: Google Sh*ts by CogDog

SaaS Top 8. Now, this is how to play Wall Street ala Gordon Gecko...

IT Brain Food from Prof. MacAfee. On Research.
Twitter Freemium? This is not limiting me. Not at all and I'd go nuts having 500 followers.

Mozilla Snowl? I'd stay off for the meantime or defrag my brain to process all that. Aumm.

Iphone Complements (eg. Morph Appspace) and others that obviously don't

Jailbreak. Don't you just love the term when you can probably use the verb 'free' to get apps in the Itunes store.

Kill switch. Depends where you're allegiances are placed. Apple stocks or user choices.... Oh, big brother Jobs!

Speaking of murdered apps, this one sure is pricey. I am rich iPhone app.

Love and hate relationship. To think it began in the Garden of Good and Evil and now in the tech age it persist. Hate iTunes? .. or Apple in general?

Rant against the iPhone Apps platform. It all boils down to 'proprietary'.

Morph (not Nokia phone model), comes to the Apple Web Apps Developer's rescue. News and commentary.

Olympics of course. Can't help but include amazing Lezak

Why JK Rowling and Harry Potter books are also amazing. Why? Reading. Surprised that reading isn't as popular online. Here.

Don't show this to the boss unless you're work-obsessed. But for those who continue to deliver, this is nice. I did work.

Drop your files, Wahlahh. Use Drop.io

Resources for word lovers from Mashable. Cool,eh.

Twitter updates just now but it's because Failwhale hasn't been sighted for lately. Twitter devotees explained. They're called audience.

Cloud computing is changing the world. No kidding? Hope the cloud changes for the better, too.

Aside from it's obvious use as weapons of war, think Hollow Man. Woot. Invisibility

The 2008 Olympics: Whatever your Politics

Just wishing all the athletes to give their best shot (Not sure it sounded, right but I don't mean doping).

Best part for us mortals is being able to watch. Tips from Silicon Alley.

And national pride:

Our only hope?

Cloud O' Mania

Open Source and Cloud Computing

Join Tim O and the rest of the gang discuss this conundrum. I say we're still far from solving this one. Cloud providers, please stand up! Eventually, in 2018 - one cloud to rule them all. Nahh. Cloud's best kept secret.

Oh, but you sir, please take time to warm the seat. MSFT cozying up to Open Source.

Facebook Connect: This actually interests me. How is that? Really don't know.

Saas and Web 2.0: Mash Apps-enablement means play your own way. The PC is ours again.

But it's Web 3.0 and your PC is more than a PC. It's a datacenter.

Checking out the list of feed readers out there the past week and still on the lookout for interesting ones (Using Google Reader and Newsgator already). Question is what do you want to do with your feeds besides reading. It's all about integration but still stumped.

Feedly: Might have the best interface among the feedreaders.
AideRSS: PostRank and useful trackers are it's come-ons.
Snackr: Feeds ticker treat.

Cloud Computing, Blogging and SaaS: Change is Gonna Come

First off, just found this article on CTO's and the reasons for failure and frankly, it could just be anybody on any position but I believe our Guy isn't one of them.

SaaS, well not for SaaS, actually. 5 Myths of SaaS. Anybody care to respond for the SaaS side? Maybe, I will take a stab. Maybe...

Conversion and migrations: Keywords for SaaS adoption. Here's an example.

Presenting the Top Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 Bloggers. First Twenty. Watch that ego, go....

Cloud Compute:
Let Go and Let the Cloud: How Cloud Computing is Changing the World. Thanks to Experientia for the shoutout.

Comparing the Clouds: EC2, Mosso and GoGrid.

Events: Happening this September.
Gartner's Web Innovation Summit. It's about Web 2.0, SaaS and Cloud Computing.

Web 2.0 Expo in New York.

Know what the future of Blogging reputedly is going to be like. Here. Like 24-hour party people and not just with a camera because it's social.

Cloud: Bread Talk

Others can eat tasteless cloud bread, but more just can't.

Even with the continued hype at this point, cloud computing is still far from achieving that level of efficiency people and enterprises wish for it to be. But it goes without saying that, it doesn't stop enterprises to start early.

Yet, why wait for that ideal cloud that may not take shape within the next 24 months or so? (As they found out) There's PaaS or platform as a service and think of it as 'jam' to make the 'cloud' bread palatable and digestible. That's real food for thought. Shameless plug.

Thoughts on the ideal PaaS.
IBM's got clouds, too.

And SaaS

SaaS for ISV's: The final thoughts. Best if you read them all.

While others move to SaaS, there's a few moving away from it and for good cause. E-write Lite.

Grails and Flex: Contribute your thoughts and it might make it's way to a new book. Here.

I know you've got your fave software so check if it matches these Lifehacker's editors list.

See Google run... transport, that is.

My cup of tee. Motion comics, wee!

Gem

Mr Pausch would sure love this pic!

Nope, this isn't about cloud computing gems, nor gems for web programming applications such as Rails or Grails and not even Java.

It's much better.

This is about a certain fellow who honestly, I would not even heard of nor have any idea what his life is all about. Good thing , make that one of the best things, about the web is that good news spread as much as bad news so it kind of even things out (unlike print where you can't counter the negatives unless you're the publisher).

Anyway, meet (and bid farewell to) Mr. Randy Pausch.

Thanks to Tony Cangiano (here and here) for introducing me to the man. And better watch Randy's last lecture. The man really knew how to make an exit fun.

In the hearts of the persons he has inspired and continue to do so, he lives.