Off all the things Ted lists that keep him on OS X, Bluetooth and synching seem the best low-hanging fruit for, oh, I dunno, ThinkPad folks to latch onto as a feature to drives sales.

We used to say that no app was "done" until it checked your email. We may need to change that to "checks your RSS."

Managing innovation and making sure it doesn't go to waste: rapid feedback loop nut-job!

The beginings of scripting in profiling. This is super-rad. Nevermind all the Heisenberg problems.

The CDDL licensed project for Centeris Likewise Open Agent.

This just in: laptops break.

The paradox of open systems in a comercial world. Also, good points on using open systems to enable innovation.

Geo-dispursed teams working well because the individual's contributions are amplified.

I got dibs on the phrase "the treachery of Mussolini" for a blog title...

Several fancy, well done versions of the microformat logo inteded for desktop background. This is good for when you're at a conference and you want to do a little marketing with dead time.

"IMHO this is one of the key features of Jazz. Jazz doesn’t force you to throw away your existing systems."

Helping people find the OSS/commercial ecosystem around your product. Also, the MSFT licensing thing.

The SugarCRM MSFT Shared Source story.

I just like all the G's in this article...

Kim and will be seeing this at the Alamo Drafthouse Lakecreek this Thursday. mray says it's good.

...check the notes on fully-integrated, System z.

Look at this Remedy community that's going on. How can the rest of BMC get this same content stream going? Of course, it looks like someone turned off the Remedy content stream at this URL last year.

"In addition, Aperi will apply to the Eclipse Foundation to become an Eclipse project, and IBM will donate one million plus lines of code from its TotalStorage Productivity Centre to Aperi."

More on SNIA's role in the whole thing.

A lot more detail on the so called "anti-Aperi Group" (AAG) than in most other article on the Aperi/SNIA/Sun thread.

...update on requirements gathering, some SNIA chatter.

"Is there a business model service here? Is it a open standards friendly version of Groove?"

Some good bullet points on lowering barries to entry for open source, or any software.

"The first official 'Service Desk' piece of product literature over on our official System Center 'Service Desk.'" Sadly, in Word: check the first comment on that topic. Congrats, though.

"Service Desk" product page.

Some bold, but good statements on XHTML being similar to plain-text, but XML "in the long run [is] no better than proprietary binary formats."

"MicroID allows a service to validate that the content you link to on some other site, is actually yours if you claim it to be." More user-centric ID think, a little weird at first, but then it makes sense.

LinkedIn love deep in comments.

Whole lotta del.icio.us tools, webapp ad otherwise.