Jeffry Thurana writes about webtop alternatives for cloud computing. This is an area I need to study. If you are using one of these, or know of another please email me rjeffries [aht] gmail [daht] com.
Ade Oshineye writes about RabbitMQ, an implementation of AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) to deliver high-performance enterprise messaging. Good refernces are provided in the post.
Susan mernit writes about social media must haves for the recently laid off.
I recently lost my job, so this CNET article caught my eye. My wife was unenthusiastic about the suggestion that one action is “find a new girlfriend” but she likes most of the other ideas. (This news item may have shaped her negative view regarding me finding a girlfriend as the article advises.
This National Geographic’s site stores seamless topographic image maps for the entire United States using Amazon Web Services S3 storage.
Twingine shows Google and Yahoo search results on a split screen. [via Jeremy Zawodny]
A woman was murdered by her husband because she changed her status on Facebook to “Single” after he moved out. Sad.
Read Andrew Lahde’s Exit Letter. He says in part: “Give up on leaving your mark. Throw the Blackberry away and enjoy life.”
Web phones (TM, Ron K Jeffries) are catching on big time even in rural areas.
Web phone(tm) report from a trusted spy: at the headquarters of a smallish Kansas telephone company, one in four employees talking on mobile phones were using an iPhone.
I asked a financially astute friend: “Is this guy a nut job? It’s hard for me to tell.” His response [below] is worth sharing: