Here's a great post from Naval at Ventureblog, interesting at two levels. One is the excellent summary of where each platform is getting cutting edge support. (Which is by the way consistent with what we are seeing: Fear the Penguin. Bad news for MSFT; worse news for SUNW.)

Naval's second insight is that the VC community gets some real intelligence flow on this situation as a by-product of our normal work, and he is indirectly suggesting that we be a bit more self-conscious in reflecting it back out to the marketplace. Excellent idea, and point taken!
12:16:56 PM    

With Big Media largely ignoring the ongoing unrest in Iran, the Internet is the place to track events. Fortunately, while Iraq only had one blogger when things hit the fan, Iran has hundreds both there and in exile, and many post in English. There's enough you want a site that's capable of filtering and interpreting the flow, as well as looks at the raw feed. Those tracking the closest include:

• Jeff Jarvis
• Winds of Change
• Pejman

The good folks in Iran deserve at least our moral support. They also deserve the chance to take back their freedom their own way, with their own hands. A tough conundrum with a nuclear time bomb ticking in the background.
10:34:37 AM    

Brokers are required to monitor employee's instant message traffic and retain for three years.
10:19:51 AM    

No, it's not stock cars or monster trucks. The DefCon hacking conference is sponsoring an 802.11 shootout in Las Vegas. You got your stock, your modified stock, your unlimited classes all going for range, goin' for the gold. Come on Vivato, Airgo, and all you stealthy beam steering startups: this is far more cool to put in the trophy case than some wimpy PC mag thingy.

(For those outside North America who don't get the references, don't worry about it. Some things about US culture are best left unexported.)

Via BoingBoing
9:31:35 AM    

Scott Loftesness follows up on my post regarding the competitive position between Microsoft and Google. He's got some evidence that Microsoft may be moving more aggressively and agilely than I gave them credit. Give it a read.
9:07:06 AM