Links for 08-01-2014

• Mark Burgess Website - The Gamesters of Transmogrification - "The APIzation of things, and the Software Defined Everything (SDx) movements worry me. These philosophies seem to say here's a bunch of complex tools that you might need, which are going to take you a while to learn, and which could get you into trouble if you use them wrong. The responsibility is yours to learn how to use this well, after all, with great power comes great responsibility. But this is the future, so get with the program! Best of luck."
• Untitled (http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/07/31/ma-wont-change-noncompete-law-vcs-pledge-to-continue-campaign/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ma-wont-change-noncompete-law-vcs-pledge-to-continue-campaign) - Skepticism this would happen is unfortunately confirmed. Mass not moving ahead w restricting non-competes
• Kodak Movie Film, at Death's Door, Gets a Reprieve - WSJ - "Kodak's motion-picture film sales have plummeted 96% since 2006, from 12.4 billion linear feet to an estimated 449 million this year."
• PC sales estimates: How the sausage gets made
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Privacy Economics - "But op­por­tunis­tic pri­va­cy is bet­ter than none. A strong pass­word is bet­ter than a weak one. A pass­word man­ag­er is bet­ter than your mem­o­ry. A sec­ond fac­tor is bet­ter than just a pass­word. An en­crypt­ed disk is bet­ter than a wide-open one. None of these things buy you any­thing ab­so­lute. But ev­ery time the di­al turn­s, cer­tain bad things stop hap­pen­ing, and the world be­comes a bet­ter place."
• Reveal.js | OpenShift by Red Hat
• The United Names of AmericaThe United Names of America - Not what I would have thought--though I'm probably influenced by the ubiquity of "Main Street" in New England towns.
• ownCloud | OpenShift by Red Hat - RT @fabianofranz: #ownCloud 7 is out and already available on @OpenShift! Deploy your own cloud now:
• A Presentation Toolbox That Might Blow Your Audience Away: Florian Haas at OSCON 2014