Speaking of Business Plans...

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed reports that social network Facebook is strapped for cash, and possibly seeking venture capital funding in Dubai. More: continues here Related Posts A Facebook Payments System? Zuckerberg Not Sure He Wants Your Money After All [E-commerce] Mark Zuckerberg Tells 60 Minutes: “Beacon Makes Facebook Less - TechCrunch Facebook’s Zuckerberg On ‘painful Changes’ Mark Zuckerberg Cashes ... more

Top501 HiSo Gossip: Rumors resurface of a Facebook music store posted at Articles.Top501.nu . More or Videos Zuckerberg is in talks with a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com about an outsourcing deal, reports the New York Post. The one thing I agree with the Post about is that whatever Facebook could be working on, it probably won’t resemble the standalone “MySpace Music” site. Fa... more

Facebook is a mess when it comes to music. The Facebook Music service launched in late 2007 and since then has faced wide-ranging criticism and speculation due to its lack of any real strategy. But is all of that changing? There has been another recent flurry of speculation about Facebook’s music service following an article in The New York Post reporting that Facebook is again considering its options for a new digital music service. While this story has generated buzz abou... more

Working across all of Sun, Senior Vice President, Dave Douglas, has been appointed today to lead the Company's cloud computing efforts. Simultaneously, in a package of "decisive actions to align Sun's business with global economic realities," Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced a restructuring plan aimed at reducing costs by approximately $700 to $800 million annually - including a reduction of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 employees, representing approximately 15% to 18% of the Company... more

Top501 World: The Amazing Jonathan posted at Articles.Top501.nu - More! Videos! �     Excellent article Jonathan. Through being part of the FOSS community, listening and working together companies such as Sun and IBM have garnered a great deal of respect and trust and indeed you’re the first companies we look to when we need a solution. We’re counting on you to defend the community in the face of these nasty threats. What goes up and co... more

Recently, I read an interview that Jonathan Schwartz gave to Computerworld dated October, 13 2008.  The following question was posed: "Do you really expect customers in the near term — with the economic downturn— to, say, swap out an Oracle database and replace it with MySQL?"  Jonathan’s answer: "Unquestionably.  Now that doesn’t mean they are leaving Oracle ... But there is no longer one-size-fits-all in the enterprise database marketplace.".  With 80-90% of the functionality of ... more

Spotted in Engadget Some wily web browsers have found a job listing at Nintendo of America that suggests the game company is finally getting serious about USB support for the Wii. The job search, found a few days ago, was for a "Software/Harware Tester" who can execute a "test plan for Wii’s USB devices." Some think this could mean compatibility for external USB storage devices like hard drives and flash drives given the Wii’s limited 512MB internal memory. We, however, hope... more

The hot weather finally broke - here’s what I’ve got instead: Not as bad as last week, at least - the lights stayed on, this time. Lots of blinking though. ... more

Chris Petrilli weighs in on the debate I was having here and on Aaron Swartz’ blog, and sums up with: James discusses the issue around hours, etc., but that’s much further down the consideration process than “I can’t do it because my kids need insurance” decision point. To be honest, this is the kind of argument a person who is single without kids makes. Paying for health care out of pocket can be painful, but it’s possible (I had to pay fo... more

The support resolutions application is back online - we had a longer outage than expected, but things are back to normal now. Technorati Tags: cincom smalltalk , support ... more