another corporate show

Provides > $2.2bn in funding for R&D and startups

Announced at etech via Tim O'Reilly

Now I have a reason to visit NY.

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

I wish they had these when I was a kid!

Use Ruby to develop c++ code for controlling Arduino hardware.

Fantastic interactive media designer. created the 'credit crisis' video being passed around.

Answer: No

VCs lobbying for SBIR renewal to allow their businesses access to more funds

RedMonk analysts on Green computing

IBM uses BlueTwit internally and Lotus Notes has a twitter plugin

Mondrian founder, and SQLstream chief architect

open source reporting, analysis, business intelligence, and OLAP server

This is probably more reason to farm out graphs to an osx box. http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

Citrix has made xenserver platform free (it was open source to begin with). This will help with virtualization adoption but it's still questionable whether virtualization will skip the IT department as business move straight to service-based software like SalesForce rather than building and maintaing their own IT infrastructure.

Looking at using this for rasterizing SVG graphs when using RaphaelJS and user wants to 'Save the image' to disk. Not sure if this is like CutyCapt and thus will not work on a headless server.

Considering getting a mac mini and using this to farm out SVG-rasterization tasks. Same as Batik… need something to rasterize the output of RaphaelJS.

Google appengine starts price war with AWS and continues supporting free plans.