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• On Privacy, and Software Vendor’s Access to Customer Data
  "A mini firestorm broke out recently when 37Signals posted about their 2011 growth statistics. As part of the post, 37Signals told the world that the 100 millionth file to be uploaded to their software was the picture of a cat. Naturally those who subscribe to conspiracy theories got all fired up and started to express massive concern about 37Signals being able to access customer files."
• When Patents Attack! | This American Life
  Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.
• Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive
  "Don’t get trapped in the "either-or" discussion of agility versus cost. Don’t even imagine that these two characteristics are really different. They are just two expressions of the same phenomenon, virtualization automation."

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• Preserving Multi-Cloud Choice and Flexibility with Cloud Foundry “Open PaaS”
  "The Cloud Foundry ecosystem is growing quickly with increasing number of technology partners working with us to expand the choice of public cloud providers, private cloud distributions and cloud infrastructures."
• Hadoop Summit
  "Hortonworks and Yahoo! are proud to host the 5th annual Hadoop Summit."
• GigaSpaces Introduces Multi-Site Data Replication Done Simply and Reliably – MarketWatch
  "GigaSpaces… is introducing a new solution for replicating data over a WAN using the GigaSpaces market-leading in-memory data grid and scaling technology."
• WP Socializer – WordPress Plugin
• Vivify
  A color scheme editor for Vim.

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• Cheap and easy SSL: Heroku + Cloudflare | Impact Dialing
• We’re entering the golden age of Hadoop — Cloud Computing News
  "Although the first couple years of the commercial Hadoop era have been characterized by an attitude of  ’Hadoop is great, but …’, the tone is changing as Hadoop vendors make the platform more palatable with each iteration."
• From Concept to Completion: 50 Examples Of Logo Design Process
  Nice examples of start-to-finish logo design.
• VMware Q4 shines: Aims to ‘go beyond cost reduction’ | ZDNet
  "VMware delivered a strong fourth quarter and raised its outlook for 2012. CEO Paul Maritz said that the company is working to provide products that ‘go beyond cost reduction’ and deliver ‘competitive value.’"
• Best Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress – DesignModo
• Platform-as-a-service next cloud wave, but many feds don’t grasp it — Government Computer News
  "Many federal managers don’t understand the platform-as-a-service cloud delivery model and how it can help agencies cut development costs by more than 50 percent, according to a new white paper by NJVC and Virtual Global."
• Next Iteration Of PaaS: Will Amazon Join That Race?
  "In the next iteration [of PaaS], the entire action will be centered around the power of data. Instead of data sources being one of the many components of today’s PaaS system, the next iteration of PaaS will be dealing with a more powerful ‘Data as a Service’, which will include data sources, data cleaning tools, data management tools and, more importantly, a very powerful analytics engine."

  Great article by Krish on the future of PaaS.

• Rackspace’s cloud going all OpenStack
  "A year after Rackspace and NASA unveiled OpenStack, Rackspace is planning to deploy the open source software across its entire cloud infrastructure."

  Rackspace’s planned dog-fooding of OpenStack is a good thing for the project and its users.

• 20+ Best Social Media Icon Sets In 2011 | Icons | Graphic Design Junction
  Exclusive New Free Social Media Bookmarking Icon Set

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• How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous in 1 Month
  Resources for learning Python/Django
• What’s in Store for 2012: A Few Predictions
  Redmonk’s Stephen O’Grady
• [priv] Their Online Dating Site was Struggling — Online Dating Services — OkCupid
  Inc story on OKCupid

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• Startups – The Essential To Do List
  This post is dedicated to a team of promising young entrepreneurs who asked me recently if they could all just “put some money in a bank account” to launch their startup. I wanted to say ‘yes’ because I know how much other work they have to do to build a successful company. But instead I had to warn them that there were several essential elements of their corporate structure they had to get right now to maximize their probability of success.
• Machine Learning – complete course notes
  The following notes represent a complete, stand alone interpretation of Stanford’s machine learning course presented by Professor Andrew Ng and originally posted on the ml-class.org website during the fall 2011 semester. The topics covered are shown below, although for a more detailed summary see lecture 19. The only content not covered here is the Octave/MATLAB programming.

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