Links for June 8th

• How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com - 50 ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook… (via the Real Paul Jones)
• Blogging Turns Open Source Developers into Sales People (by Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant) - Open Source companies can nicely take advantage of the positive effects of blogging: Markets are conversations. Weblogs are a powerful medium of communication…
• The Five Questions Companies Ask About Social Media - Jeremy Owyang has a nice summary of the 5 W’s of social media
• Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina’s Body - It now seems that all doubt has been quelled, since Alameda County District Attorney Thomas Orloff has revealed that Hans Reiser will disclose the location of Nina’s body for a reduced sentence. End of the ReiserFS debacle.
• Open Thoughts: A New Phase for EnterpriseDB - Andy Astor states his position on the new CEO of EnterpriseDB. Andy’s a good guy, I think EnterpriseDB has a great opportunity if they can engage the PostgresSQL community in a meaningful way. Best of luck to them.
• Woopra Review - Real-Time Web Analytics « Linux and Open Source Blog - With Woopra, you get live track of visitors coming and going and moving through your site. You get the stats now. While the visitor moves through your site, you can track their path instantly.
• Open Sources | Rodrigues & Urlocker | InfoWorld | OpenLogic and SourceLabs should merge | June 2, 2008 10:00 AM | Savio Rodrigues - Sourcelabs Self-Support Suite adds diagnostics to your applications. When developers have a support issue, the diagnostics results are used to search for the similar problem *and* the solution from within the SourceLabs support repository.
• Open Sources | Rodrigues & Urlocker | InfoWorld | Fixing the broken OSS business model | June 6, 2008 12:40 PM | Savio Rodrigues - Giving away all the value that a product provides and expecting that customers will pay for the “other stuff” is a mistake. I want to riff on this in the future no time today.
• Sandcastle Removed from Codeplex - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft - A number of people have alerted me in the last 24 hours that a Microsoft project called Sandcastle, located on Codeplex, used the Ms-PL and called itself “open source” yet never posted the source code. Sam steps up and does the right thing.
• Desktop virtualization: Vista’s secret weapon? | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-05 | By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service - Microsoft last month closed its acquisition of Kidaro Technologies, a desktop-virtualization software vendor, and plans to use technology from that company to create a new product called Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization.
• New D&D Rolls a 20 for Playability | The Underwire from Wired.com - With the new edition, released Friday, D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast is launching one of the most ambitious attempts the tabletop-games industry has seen at redefining what it means to play an RPG.
• openSUSE Spotlight » Announcing the openSUSE Marketing Team - Zonker’s mobilizing the troops to help market openSUSE. Looks like a good cause and a good use of community.

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