Nine to Noon: 12 August 2009
August 12, 2009 – 12:25 pmI went through two telephones in this Colorado house and neither of them could hold onto the call. Now that's frustrating! Here's what I was going to speak about: I will talk about recent American software company acquisitions and what it tells us about the economy and the future direction of cloud computing. Then I'll tell you how to teach your kids to program. Links: FriendFeed acquired by Facebook (BusinessWeek), SpringSource acquired by VMWare (InfoWorld), Poison for Venture Capital (NY Times), the Scratch visual programming language. FriendFeed and Facebook Facebook's the biggest social network: more than 250m active users, with >120M logging on every day. They get a billion photos each month. It's huge. But a person might belong to plenty of other social networks: Twitter, MySpace, they might have their own blog or two, they put photos on Flickr, .... It's very easy to have a ...