Links to a few interesting posts that I will look at later:

• Gigiom
• Infoworld
  

Will add more as I do my research

MySpace to open up the platform to developers
The blogosphere (here are a couple of links: Gigaom, Infoworld) is abuzz with the news that, finally, MySpace is following Facebook, Google (Open Social), LinkedIn, Plaxo and others to allow users to create applications on the platform.

It seems that developers have developed 14,000+ apps on facebook (link to the list). However, not a lot of money is being made. I will closely watch as this space develops. Thinking about how an Enterprise can use this new platform?

StandoutJobs - Interesting recruitment site
The company launched today at DEMO 2008. The website also went live today.

Interesting concept that I am not sure will Change the Face of Recruiting. I have seen so many companies that rely on recruiters building web-sites and network with candidates. The bandwidth just does not exist for them to do these things effectively.

Most interesting to me was this from the Gigom coverage:

Standout is the poster child for Web 2.0 tech. It’s built atop Ruby on Rails, and runs entirely on Amazon’s EC2 and S3 platforms.

It makes me want to be a developer again!

Trolltech - Cross-platform Development Tools
Just read the news on Slashdot that Nokia bought Trolltech, a developer of open source cross-platform development solutions. They claim to have supported the development of some cool applications including the skype client.
Update (1/30/08): An interesting Business Week article that explains the strategic importance of Trolltech.

Search is Local!
Interesting metrics from comScore (read full article on TechCrunch):
Local search engines (Baidu: China, Naver: Korea and Yandex: Russia are in the top 10!) are very powerful in countries that do not use the roman alphabets.

I believe that over the next several years, we will see more and more chinks in Google's armor and I continue to believe that Google will ultimately go the Microsoft way to being less relevant - only much faster! (my earlier comments on the topic).

Innovation @ Nokia
I am amazed at how Nokia continues to be the largest and wildly profitable handset maker in the world, while Motorola, their main competitor, stumbled terribly. Here is a great example of why:

Nokia has announced a couple of new low end phones (1209 and 2600) for emerging (high growth) markets deliver what the customer wants: phone sharing (address book for 5 users with cost tracking), because users share phones; low cost: $50 and $90; FM radio, VGA cam. More details on MobileMentalism.

It is impressive that a company with 130,000 employees continues to launch innovative handsets that very effectively address the needs of each of their customers.

Folding Phone
A phone from Polymer Vision, a Philips spin off, with a five inch foldable screen will be out in mid-2008. Cool! Go to their website to take a look in 3D! Story on Reuters.

Zenoss: Open Source Enterprise Monitoring Tool
Looks very interesting. Will look for more information on this.

OpenID - I just got one and most probably, you did too!
Today, Yahoo announced that they will support OpenID and that users will be able to use their Yahoo IDs to access other Open ID enabled sites. Here is the InfoWorld article with details on the topic.

I believe that OpenID has a real opportunity to reduce the number of ID / password each of have created on the web. However, it is a very tough problem to solve - remember Microsoft Passport?

Rich Internet Application Development Tools
I have been hearing more and more about Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, Mozilla Prism, Google Web Toolkit, etc for developing desktop-based Rich Internet Applications. These applications run outside the browser and leverage the desktop functionality to give the user a much better experience. Here is a good article with a brief description of the tools.

I think that Adobe Integrated Runtime and Silverlight have the most buzz. Also, from what I can read in the blogosphere, Adobe is ahead.