• On Hybrid Source: Of course people buy tools – James Governor’s Monkchips
  "However I do take issue with one of Stephe’s basic premises, an oft repeated but basically stupid line from Theodore Levitt of Harvard Business School.

  “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!”

  This kind of rubbish needs to be challenged. The idea people actually want to buy holes is kind of like the notion that markets are perfect. File under stuff economists say, without recourse to real life."

• Product management goes open source | The Open Road – CNET News
  "This is great news, because it means open-source companies, if they listen to their users, are well-positioned to build platforms that can become the lifeblood of enterprise IT. ReadWriteWeb rightly concludes that Twitter's "success has been credited to its ability to transform from a basic life streaming service into a platform," with an outsized, $1 billion valuation to match." — Great post by Matt Asay on listening to customers. I don't think there's anything in the article that applies only to open source companies.
• BlueLock Box
  I know and like the guys at BlueLock, and they're doing some very innovative things. I sighed when I saw them post a "private cloud" article to their blog, but I had no idea about their BlueLock Box offering, an on-premise hardware, software, services offering that connects into their hosted cloud. Very cool!
• Updated Pubsubhubbub flow presentation
  More on PuSH.
• Autoscaling in the Cloud with PubSubHubbub – ElasticVapor
  I've been seeing PubSubHubbub come up a bit recently and like Ruv, I've been curious about, well, what all the hubbub was about. (Badump bump.) Fortunately for me, and you, @ruv has a nice 30-second summary of the tech at the start of this post.
• Let’s Cut the Cloudspeak – Internet Evolution
  "The term cloud computing has gotten too imprecise. It's time to stop, take a breath, and decide what it is we're really talking about." – Hard to disagree with this!
• Q&A: Visa dips a toe into the Hadoop pool
  Interesting Q&A with VISA tech strategist on their use of Hadoop. There is a tremendous amount of business value in applying Map Reduce in new and interesting ways to transactional data. (Appistry gained some first hand experience with this while helping our customer Clearent do so.)

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