Tara Hunt thinks it's the wrong question. Also: "I'd agree that MySpace will likely start to extract every possible piece of value from its ecosystem, especially with Ross Levinson (super bright guy) & Rupert running chaperone."

On the MySpace Widget hoopla.

Brenda Michelson, late of Patricia Seybold Group, starts her own firm.

"The technology defers to the people using it because they’re usually better at managing failures and edge cases than it is.... The handheld is not a digital site foreman, handing out decisions and orders to employees in the field; the employees are not

ATOM client in Java.

PR for FiveRun's GA.

Post from FiveRuns designers.

Some refreshingly candid talk on China's weaknesses as a market and pool for software sales and skills.

Vendor sports creeps into OSS. Seems a bit off-base, wouldn't you say?

Layer ontop of Rails.

Using Mule to do an EDA.

"Every hotel room with a sufficiently big mirror reduces a man to the level of Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now. The urge to order up scotch, do nude kung-fu and smash the mirror is almost insurmountable."