Links for 12-11-2012

• Don't blame me for txtspk, says sender of first SMS (Q&A) | Crave - CNET
• Writing Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
• What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud? - "Amazon wants you to leave this conference thinking that anything can be done on its cloud, says Gordon Haff, a cloud evangelist for Red Hat who attended the show. "Public cloud will be a part of enterprise IT, it will not be all of enterprise IT," he says. CIOs are still trying to figure out what workloads make sense for running in the cloud and which still are best for on-premise applications. Many specialized applications, he says, are still best to run yourself in your own data center."
• Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google - Fortune Tech
• Ohloh, the open source network
• Google60 – Search Mad Men Style - OMG. This is brilliant.
• Leverhawk - Looking for leverage where tech intersects business - RT @sandhillstrat: Just launched a new blog site on #cloud computing and #agile IT called @leverhawk. Check it out:
• Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their fields
• RedHat-Platform as a service: gaining computing power without losing control — GigaOM Pro - I'll be on a PaaS panel with @DavidLinthicum and other @GigaOMPro folks tomorrow #RedHat
• (404) http://t.co/9c - RT @bostonography: Cambridge has the 5th highest Walk Score of 2500 cities. Somerville 10th, Brookline 11th, Boston 18th. ...
• The defunct startup that beat Best Buy in court - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet - RT @saspinall: Here's a salutary tale on @bestbuy stealing a startup's secret sauce
• 6 reasons manufacturing is returning to North America | SmartPlanet - RT @joemckendrick: 6 reasons manufacturing is returning to North America
• IBM Cloud - YouTube - RT @IBMcloud: "In a post-Sandy world, there needs to be portability between the public and private cloud." #PaaS #i ...
• Why the ARM architecture is shaped the way it is - RT @babcockcw: Neat analysis of ARM's path in EE Times.
• The 2nd Tenet of Hybrid Clouds: Hybrid is About Portability | tentenet.net - RT @bryanwche: Lots of #cloud announcements today from Red Hat. Here's how they fit together:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 beta now available | ZDNet - RT @sjvn: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 beta now available #RHEL #Linux by @sjvn
• (404) http://t.co/hX - RT @americanrep: get the inside scoop on #Pippin and the minds behind the show and production in this week's @BostonGlobe ...
• Photo by ghaff • Instagram - Doesn't seem right to have a cactus next to an ice rink
• The Synthesized Cloud: Hybrid Service Models « all things open - Good read on hybrid service models by @jameslabocki