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This blog and website is for the BitMasons LLC analyst firm and Gordon Haff. The focus is on technology matters but we'll post on other things that catch our eye as well. And just have some fun too.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Links for 12-15-2011

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Fountainhead: Predictions: What You WON'T See in IT For 2012 - Good list. Would quibble here and there but don't really disagree wi...

Podcast: Red Hat's Tushar Katarki talks grid

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I sat down last week with Red Hat's product manager for grid products, Tushar Katarki, who joined us recently. In this interview, Tushar...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Links for 12-14-2011

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How American food got so bad — Marginal Revolution - "I think there is a very bad period for American food. It runs something like 191...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Links for 12-12-2011

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Print - What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics - Very details and sobering read. From a design perspective, the way...
Friday, December 09, 2011

Links for 12-09-2011

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Cloud computing history lesson | Technology Spectator - (Primarily focused on public clouds.) Why An Investment Firm Was Awarded $2.5 Milli...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Links for 12-06-2011

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The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlant...
Friday, December 02, 2011

Links for 12-02-2011

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Building a Spotify App « Music Machinery Red Hat Gordon Haff: from open source to cloud computing - Computer Business Online - Me on Chines...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

Links for 12-01-2011

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Top 10 Cloud Predictions for 2012: The Awkward Teenage Years Are Upon Us | Forrester Blogs - Like the analogy. Wish I had thought of it :-)...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Posting HTML from Pinboard

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I finally jumped off social bookmarking site Delicious during the whole kerfuffle over their problem-laden relaunch and moved to Pinboard ...

Links for 11-30-2011

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Seamless Topographic Maps for Google Earth « Google Earth Library Why There Will Never Be Another Drug Like Lipitor - Forbes

Big Data: Asking the right questions

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In this interview by Mac Slocum over at O'Reilly Radar, Alistair Croll , Strata online program chair, weighs in on the differences betw...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Podcast: Red Hat's Kim Palko talks messaging and AMQP

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Messaging used to be the province of expensive, proprietary software but--as in many other areas of the software universe--that's change...

Red Hat's Doug O'Flaherty discusses Supercomputing (SC11): Big data and more

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As far as I'm concerned, the Supercomputing show may just be the most interesting computer industry trade show. I didn't make it th...

Links for 11-29-2011

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Ranked: Martin Scorsese Films from Worst to Best | Nerve.com - Pretty good list IMO. The Great Cloud Computing Pricing Debate CIO.com - ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Links for 11-22-2011

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An Open Letter to Chip and Dan Heath about Second Life « It’s All Virtual - A counterpoint to the latest Second Life is dead argument. A lo...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Links for 11-21-2011

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How Facebook is ruining sharing | Molly Rants - CNET News - "Sharing and recommendation shouldn't be passive. It should be conscio...
Friday, November 18, 2011

The Best Couple of Paragraphs Written About Tablets

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The context of these paragraphs written by Marco Arment , the creator of Instapaper, is a negative review of the Kindle Fire. But they also ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Links for 11-15-2011

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5 key trends in cloud computing's future | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld - "As we gain experience with the cloud, expect to see cent...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Links for 11-14-2011

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The Likability of Angry Birds - The Oatmeal - The Likability of Angry Birds Outstanding! How Long Is This Hot Wheels Track? | Wired Scienc...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Links for 11-11-2011

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Oracle Pitches Solaris as 'First Cloud OS' | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com - "Cantrill, like many of Sun’s freewheeling enginee...

From Building a Cloud to Operating It

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First you build your cloud. A week back, I shared my thoughts on how best to do so based on my keynote from the Red Hat Cloud Tour . But th...
Friday, November 04, 2011

Three Approaches to Building a Cloud

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In the course of preparing for the Red Hat Cloud Tour, I (along with many others on the Red Hat cloud team) gave a lot of thought as to how ...

Links for 11-04-2011

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Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers - Businessweek - "“Operations expertise is as big an asset for Apple as product innovati...

How to Browse the Amazon Kindle Lending Library from a PC

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One of my complaints about Amazon streaming for Prime Members is that they don't make it easy to search and browse only within the stuff...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Links for 10-31-2011

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The original iPod, 10 years later: a re-review - Cool that it still works with iTunes. It's worth noting though that it took the iPod q...
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