• SourceForge.net: ICEcore – ICEcore collaboration software is the July 2008 SF.net project of the month.
• GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director – Open Logic’s Stormy Peters leaves OpenLogic for the GNOME Foundation interesting job.
  (Via Savio)
• SnapLogic Blog » Connecting Clouds – Integration and Cloud Computing – Mikeyp gets it right, “…cloud computing will not happen overnight – it will be a gradual transition and, current hype aside, that transition is ongoing in all of these areas.”
• tecosystems » Differentiating from Twitter: Open Source and Identi.ca – “Identi.ca is likely to make an excellent personal trainer for Twitter. More so, even, than Jaiku, Pownce and friends. Why? Because the biggest community wins.”
• Linux Today – From the Middle English Phrase “God Be With Ye” – Congratulations to my good friend Brian Proffitt for becoming the community manager for the Linux Foundation’s Developer Network.
• 451 CAOS Theory » What we talk about when we talk about community – Matt Aslett talks mulls over the definition of community.

Technorati Tags: cloud computing, GNOME, Identi.ca, Open Source, Twitter

I love Twitter but when I use my Linux laptop (Ubuntu running Hardy Heron) I don’t have many native options for Twitter clients. The preferred native client appears to be Twitux. Though the nascent client is a little primitive for me. Another popular choice is gTwitter though in my experience it’s only been marginally better.

On Mac OS X I prefer Twhirl which allows me to send tweets to separate accounts from individual windows. So I can send tweets for my @zenoss and @mrhinkle accounts. Twhirl is an Adobe Air application which now is available for Linux as an alpha. Thanks to Seth Yates I now have Twhirl running as an AIR application with Adobe Air running natively on Ubuntu. the only downside seems to be that the notification windows are a little “flutterly” I really don’t care for them anyhow so I turned them off and everything seems to run well.

Technorati Tags: Adobe Air, gTwitter, Linux, Twhirl, Twitter, Twitux

If you know what this picture is from then you are probably a Twitter user. There’s a lot of discussion on how their success might be killing them, at least they will have $15 million bucks from their investors to shore up their infrastructure. I suspect that Twitter doesn’t suffer from their user base as much as they do from their “openness”. You see they have a very good API for people to write applications to. Some of my favorites are Summize and a new one I found last night at the Triangle Tweetup, Twitter Movies.

I have to wonder if the reason Twitter suffers is from the number of services tapping into it’s API and not actually the people using it. Anyhow as I write this I am staring at the whale once again…

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Whale

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. there’s a Triangle Tweetup at the Capstrat in Raleigh (near the RBC Center) to discuss Twitter and to network with other Twitter users.

Here’s the venue:

Capstrat, Inc.
1201 Edwards Mill Road, First Floor 102
Raleigh, NC 27607

http://www.capstrat.com

More information can be found on the wiki.

If you want to get together at the event hit me on Twitter @mrhinkle.

Technorati Tags: Meetup, Raleigh, Triangle, Twitter

Random Links from April web surfing.

• Stop leaving out the valuable breadcrumb trail – Breadcrumb trails are still a vital part of on page SEO. They provide backlinks to the homepage and help it’s authority status.
• Omni WordPress Theme | Premium Design Templates – A premium Wordpress theme with a web 2.0 feel.
• Best practices when moving your site from Google – Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Lots of webmasters find this a scary process. How do you do it without hurting your site’s performance in Google search results?
• Bookmarkit – The Social Bookmarks sidebar widget for WordPress allows you to select a number of social bookmark sites which are displayed in the sidebar.
• Idealware: Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone – Open source content management systems can make creating and managing your website a lot easier – and there’s no licensing fee involved. But which should you use?  We look carefully at Joomla, Drupal, and Plone to compare their strengths and weaknesses.
• Psystar Corporation – Open Computer: The Smart Alternative to an Apple – Why spend $1999 to get the least expensive Apple computer with a decent video card when you can pay less than a fourth of that for an equivalent sleek and small form-factor desktop with the same hardware. This turned out to be a sketchy drama as documented here by Gizmodo.
• StumbleUpon Alerter – Blog – Adamant Solutions, Adelaide, South Australia – Web design, custom software development and website hosting – StumbleUpon Alerter is a small tool that sits in the system tray. It keeps an eye on all of your discoveries on StumbleUpon and plays a noise whenever someone reviews or gives your sites a thumbs up.
• Monochrome Pro | Graph Paper Press – Another WordPress theme I have been digging.
• Which RIA Tools Give Us the Best Bang For Our Buck? @ ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE – A number of emerging frameworks seek to tame the browser and make it a suitable platform for a rich client application. The biggest fish in this pond is currently Google Web Toolkit (or GWT)….
• How to write a press release – Nice how-to for those who don’t know the in’s and outs of wrting press releases.
• BitNami makes it easy for mom & semi-geeks to use OSS « rand($thoughts); – As OSS ISVs began to use BitRock’s InstallBuilder, they started hearing that customers didn’t just want the standalone ISV product. Customers wanted the whole stack that the ISV product runs on. In response, BitRock now offers ISVs Custom Stacks.
• What’s That Noise?! [Ian Kallen's Weblog] – Technorati is still seeing a steady flow of hacked blogs showing up in Technorati crawls. The ones that we can identify as symptomatic of the compromise aren’t getting their crawls processed. 2.5 is a way to clear up the problem but not the only solution.
• Unconfirmed: Lenovo’s Entire New ThinkPad Line Leaked, X300 Gets Siblings – Lenovo is rumored to be releasing a whole line of ultra-portable’s based on the small form factor X300. Maybe they will give Apple’s MacBook Air a run for their money.
• The Server Room – Forum Powered by eve community – The Server Room is Ars Technica’s forum for large scale IT.
• Jiffle – Scheduling Made Simple – Jiffle™ makes scheduling appointments and meetings quick and simple.
• How Google Blogsearch ranks your Posts… In their own words! – How does Google know how many people are subscribed to your feed? Answer: Google Reader, the most popular feedreader at the moment, with a (loosely) estimated 30%+ share or the newsreader market.
• Gartner Explains Why Windows Is Broken – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – Interesting take on why t
• TagCrowd – make your own tag cloud from any text – TagCrowd creates a TagCloud from a URL, uploaded file, or text. [via Sam's blog]
• WPZOOM ›› WP Themes & Showcase, Blogging Tips & Hacks – Nice site about Wordpress themes and blogging tips.
• Forecast: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2007-2012 – IT operations management software market revenue will reach $18.1 billion in 2012, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 7.2% from 2007 through 2012
• 451 CAOS Theory » Qlusters waves goodbye to openQRM – And then there was three? Qlusters, the former(?) open source systems management vendor has handed the development of the openQRM project over to the open source community and announced that it will no longer be involved in the project.
• GapingVoid: How Does A Software Company Make Money, If All Software is Free – Hugh talks about software companies without business models, more on this later.
• James Governor’s Monkchips » Building a Social Media Platform and Community: Three Legs – The three-tiered architectures and developer communities. I think maybe the in more general terms you need an extensible application, a medium for collaboration, and a call to action. Then what do I know I’m not an analyst .
• LifeType | Open Source Blogging Platform – Open source blogging platform.
• My Essential Twitter Tools – If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client.
• In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop – New York Times – A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy
• In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop – New York Times – Bloggers at some of the bigger sites say most writers earn about $30,000 a year starting out, and some can make as much as $70,000. A tireless few bloggers reach six figures…
• 10 Open Source Education Tools | John M Willis ESM Blog – Interesting list of open source software Moodle, Edubuntu, FreeMind.
• Logic+Emotion – “Once upon a time, we were consumers. We consumed things. We took in the messages that were communicated to us. We didn’t really get to talk back. If we had a good or bad experience with a product or service—we told a friend.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Microsoft, SEO, Twitter