A great article that begs the question why do organizations do what they do.

A great set of interesting presentations my favorites are Jack Dorsey of Square/Twitter and Fred Wilson of Union Square Partners.

For applications that have large read demands.

An interesting artical listing the side effects (good and bad) of open innovation. via Len Greski

"VoltDB company is due to release its eponymous open-source OLTP in-memory database. It ditches just enough DBMS staples to be faster than NoSQL while staying on the right side of the critical ACID database compliance benchmark for atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability of data."

A profile of Tim O'Reilly founder of O'Reilly books. A quick read, it is always interesting to get some insight into a persons background.

"At the UIE Web App Masters Tour in Minneapolis MN, 37signals founder, Jason Fried described how 37signals solves design problems and collaborates by showing four days worth of chat transcripts about an ongoing redesign project at the company."

"Our experience shows—and the data supports—that teaching a founding CEO how to maximize the product cycle is easier than teaching the professional CEO how to find the new product cycle." A very interesting and in some cases telling statement.

It's the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website and was created by and supported by Best Buy Enterprise Services Inc and Bust Out Solutions, Inc. The standard release is known as BBYIDX and features the ability for users to simply post, tag, comment and vote on ideas. It also features the ability for administrators to moderate incoming ideas and comments as well as assign work-flow to certain ideas for further exploration. It also offers the ability to group ideas by "current" or category to create new "currents" which serve as problems or issues to be solved by comments and moderation. It also features read and write APIs that can be used to make access to an instance of BBYIDX via another website or mobile application.

Here is a very brief evolution of scaling ending with internet scale. That references MapReduce has to be good.