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Our top story this week was about bad news for the big guys: Google, Facebook, Digg's top users. As you catch up on the news, be sure to watch the conversation about China, tech and democracy that took place between activist/artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010, including Real-Time Web, Mobile Web and Internet of Things. Note: We've refreshed the format for our longest running feature, the Weekly Wrapup. It now focuses more explicitly on the key trends that ReadWriteWeb is tracking in 2010, as well as giving you the highlights from the leading story of the week. Let us know your thoughts on the new format. Sponsor Story of the Week: Nexus One's woes, spies love Facebook, top Diggers lose power Oops: Google Denied Trademark on Android Nexus One Big Changes Are Coming to Digg: More Power to Publishers, Less Power to Top Diggers How US Government Spies Use Facebook (Updated) Cartoon: Can't Go to SXSW? We Feel Your Pain Nexus One Flopped, but Android Didn't More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb Announcing the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit Join us for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit on May 7 in Mountain View, California as we explore the latest mobile development trends, both the technology and the emerging business applications. Be a part of the discussion on geo-location services , augmented reality , native app vs. browser-based , commerce and marketing , mobile social networking and the Internet of Things. Sponsorship enquiries: sales@readwriteweb.com , Register now for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit and get early bird rates - only $295. Mobile Web Microsoft Updates Bing iPhone App and Removes It from All International iTunes Stores Blockbuster Brings New Releases to Android, Windows Mobile Phones Mobile App Marketplace: $17.5 Billion by 2012 More Mobile Web coverage Internet of Things Internet of Things Explained (Video) 6 Ways to Better Living: Inside an Internet of Things Home 8 Ways to Better Understand the Internet of Things More Internet of Things coverage Check Out The ReadWriteWeb iPhone App We recently launched the official ReadWriteWeb iPhone app . As well as enabling you to read ReadWriteWeb while on the go or lying on the couch, we've made it easy to share ReadWriteWeb posts directly from your iPhone, on Twitter and Facebook. You can also follow the RWW team on Twitter, directly from the app. We invite you to download it now from iTunes . Real-Time Web OneRiot Brings Its Real-Time Ads to the Web Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source More Real-Time Web coverage . Don't miss the next wave of opportunity on the Web supported by real-time technology! Get ReadWriteWeb's report, The Real-Time Web and its Future . ReadWriteStart Our channel ReadWriteStart , sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark , is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. The Death of the Pageview Micropayments and Subscriptions: How Business Models for Startups are Shifting 6 ReadWriteStart Lists: Our Best Startup Advice ReadWriteEnterprise Our channel ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to 'enterprise 2.0' and using social software inside organizations. Provider Fail: Vodafone Sells HTC Smartphone Loaded With Malware Google Apps Offers Migration for Microsoft Exchange ReadWriteCloud Our channel ReadWriteCloud , sponsored by VMware and Intel, is dedicated to Virtualization and Cloud Computing. IBM Makes A Major Move Into The Cloud; Amazon Is In Its Sights Rulers of the Cloud: Will Amazon's Computing Fabric Become a New Economy? The Oracle Effect: Sun's Best and Brightest Move On to New Places That's a wrap for another week! Enjoy your weekend everyone. Discuss
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This week's poll is inspired our friends at CloudAve . Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post today about open-sourcing data center design . It's about time, isn't it? Subramanian best point comes down to what is happening right now in the cloud computing world. The enthusiasm for cloud computing is such that there is no time to waste. Sponsor Subramanian writes: "Compared to other fields of IT, the innovation on the data center front is relatively slow because the industry as a whole is slow to change. With cloud computing capturing the imagination of enterprises and public, It is important to innovate rapidly on the data center side." We know the role open-source is playing in cloud computing. Just look at the role that Hadoop and Eucalyptus are playing in cloud computing. But opening up the data center is a different story. It may be the last frontier and the key for opening up the enterprise to open-source initiatives. The Open Source Data Center Initiative seems like it sees that potential. The group is challenging the powers of the engineering world by collaborating and pooling information that goes into designing and ultimately constructing data centers. That's pretty interesting. So, here's our question this week: Is There A Place For Open-Source in the Data Center? trends Last Week's Poll: What is the top threat to cloud computing? Last week's poll had 244 people respond. Top response: API's and a poor interface. API's are causing headaches for at least one of the leading cloud service providers . We'll have more later about troublesome API's. In the meantime, what do you think? Is there a place for open-source in the data center? Discuss
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Just about a month after acquiring the popular iPhone email client reMail , Google and the reMail team have decided to open source the application's code. While current reMail users were able to use the app, Google decided to pull the application from the App Store after the acquisition. Given that the reMail team was joining Google to work on projects unrelated to reMail, this looks like a smart move. The source code is already available on Google Code under the Apache 2.0 License . Sponsor When Google acquired reMail, we noted that this was a rather strange acquisition for Google, given that reMail is a native iPhone app and that Google is moving away from native apps. If anything, today's move towards open-sourcing the application clearly shows that Google acquired reMail for the team behind it and not for the application or the technology behind the app (which makes it easier for iPhone users to search their emails). Open Source and the iPhone As reMail's Gabor Cselle notes in his blog post today, open-sourcing this app will hopefully allow other developers to take some of the app's core features (handling IMAP, attachments etc.) and use it for their own ideas without having to reinvent the wheel. If You are interested in getting in touch with Cselle about using the source code, head over to the reMail Google Group . Currently, there are only a few open source iPhone applications on the market. The most well-known open source iPhone project is probably the WordPress iPhone app . Discuss
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Drupal's founder is calling for open source in the enterprise and in the cloud . This should be no surprise, coming from someone like Dries Buytaert . But it is still interesting, considering the source and the point he makes about the actual lack of open source in cloud computing. Drupal is one of the most popular, open source content management systems. Buytaert created it initially as a messaging board. It went open-source in 2001. Sponsor Dries, who is now the co-founder of Acquia , says the SaaS model need to be updated, modeled on open source values. He points out that SaaS companies for the most part are built on proprietary software. Dries: "....they might allow you to export your data, but they usually don't allow you to export their underlying code. While a lot of these services might be built on Open Source components, they have a lot more in common with proprietary software vendors than Open Source projects or companies." It's in Dries view that this model can be disrupted by open source. For example, he says, the Drupal Gardens community improves the overall platform by contributing to it. The goal, as Dries says, is for people to export their Drupal Garden site in their entirety " the code, the theme and data -- and move the platform to any Drupal hosting environment." His example points to a huge issue with cloud computing. It's not easy to export data from cloud computing services. Third-party services offer methods for exporting the data but for the most part, cloud computing services are proprietary. No open standards exist for passing data. As Vint Cerf said in January to the Commonwealth Club : It's like 1973 for moving data around in the cloud. IBM, Google and Amazon have no way to interoperate. There are no cloud standards. Open-source communities are faring well in the enterprise space. Matt Asay of the Open Road posted a story last week that illustrates the success of oepn-source enterprise efforts. In particular, he referred to some of the most successful companies: Alfresco Software, Sugar CRM, Jaspersoft and Zimbra. Here are the numbers he presented: Open-source communities thrive in all sorts of places, even the enterprise space. The next step is to bring this same community drive into the cloud community. Our bet is it will happen sooner than we think. Discuss
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For the past couple weeks, we've been following some interesting developments with Twitter - things that most end users probably would not know or care about. As we suspected, the quickly-growing company is putting more emphasis on engineering, taking "steps... to make our engineering division more open and transparent," according to the team's infrastructure manager, Evan Weaver . "Much of Twitter's success has been enabled by open-source software, and we want to give back," he continues. And there's a lot of giving back going on, from a new blog to new recruiting efforts. Read on, and let us know your opinions in the comments. Sponsor An Open Source Directory This new directory lists all the public software that twitter's in-house developers have created or contributed to. "Everyone is welcome to use this software for their own projects," Weaver wrote, "and if the project is Twitter-related, so much the better." The Official Twitter Engineering Blog For those interested in the nitty-gritty, day-to-day challenges of developing and maintaining Twitter's products and features, this blog will keep them up-to-date. Current posts include information on local trends, capacity issues and uses for Twitter's translation libraries. They're Hiring! The icing on the cake is Twitter's new recruitment methods . "We've updated our job descriptions to better reflect our company culture and the skills we're looking for" wrote Weaver. "My team is looking for performance, systems, and Ruby engineers, but the company is hiring across all groups, so check out our full listings." Twitter also recently launched a recruitment Twitter account with updates on blog posts and new openings. Finally, you can follow Twitter Engineering on Twitter - duh. Discuss
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