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Watching Teddy Kennedy’s wake and funeral over the past few days has been a sad but wonderful lesson in the value of public service. By public service I mean the motive variously referred to as empathy, generosity, fairness, and other such terms demonized as liberalism by the new and to some extent old right wing. The Senator’s life consumed not only those labels but the full arc of a career among the people. And in doing so, he now offers a template for success in a polarized era, at a time when hard decisions are finally coming down to a vote.

Chief among his insights was the relentless pursuit of compromise as an art of war. His Republican friends spoke emotionally and graciously, but with strong doses of resistance to the famed Kennedy charm. They recognized him as a formidable opponent who could only be tamed, or at least harnessed, by finding common ground on which they could stand with him. If it was a win for them, they reasoned, I’ll gladly go along for the Kennedy ride. Not to say they didn’t enjoy the camaraderie, the chance to escape the dark hole of the sanctimonious extremists, the true spirit of enterprise that lurks in any politician’s heart. Kennedy gave them the running room to merge into the consensus of the times.

We all underestimated Teddy. From the Left, we were endlessly surprised when he championed the causes his brother Jack delineated but never had the political strength to produce. When Bobby was killed, nothing tore at our weary defeated souls like Teddy’s eulogy, which used the same tones and fierce despair Bobby used in Dr. King’s death. When he anointed Obama as the next brother, he casually let it be known first as Caroline’s idea. The master’s touch, from someone we always felt was a weaker version of the sons, fourth in line to the throne.

Now he’s gone, and we tremble at the thought there are no adults left to see us through. No matter how beaten up Obama gets, he retains double the popularity of the opposition. The cover of the latest Rolling Stone, with its year-long investigation of why the Beatles broke up (Yoko, for god’s sake), asks the musical question along the top: Is Healthcare Reform Doomed? What would Teddy say to that, we wonder. A quick journey to FriendFeed for the answer.

FriendFeed is the last remnant of the ‘09 campaign. The realtime debate between left and right has calcified most other places into Death Panels versus whatever the Left is selling, oh I know, the Public option. For me, Death Panels is actually a legitimate argument, not for its factual basis (none) but for the same kind of appreciation Republicans saw Kennedy â€" a good frame of a fundamental fear. Just because it comes down on the wrong side of the argument detracts nothing from either its power or its usefulness in the debate.

What Kennedy understood was the power of the model, regardless of the details or even the wins and losses of the struggle. To get a foe to argue not about the issue but about the implementation was an instant and comprehensive victory, and a quick look at Kennedy’s issues shows he won them going away. FriendFeed won the realtime argument the second it launched real-time chat. And when ugly commentary surfaced about Teddy, it bubbled to the top and prompted some direct and unambiguous responses. One retort, and then silence when the tone remained strident and harsh.

What people miss with realtime is the deep change it produces in the arc of the conversation. Some decry realtime as too fast, as prone to snap decisions and 140-character cartoon oversimplifications of complex thoughts. These distinctions â€" RSS is long and detailed, Twitter is bursty and noisy â€" are political planks, not facts. They serve the implementations and the economics of the discussion, not the underlying art of war. Realtime already won the war; now we wait to have it explained to us, and carved out of compromise and perseverance.

When people attack FriendFeed for going away, I’ll see Teddy’s smile. When they attack Facebook for being closed, it’ll be tougher but still, Teddy’s smile. When Rolling Stone questions heathcare’s health, I’ll see it as evidence of Obama’s caucus troops going back to the well, energizing their troops with something akin but not yet fully engaged with Death Panels and town halls. The best thing we have going for us is no matter how much we think heath care reform sucks, it sucks less than the alternative.

Teddy’s death gave us something we’ve waited a long time for, a coda to the deaths of brothers, Beatles, and God herself. As the dusk shrouded Arlington and wrapped us all in our reveries, we could each conjure our own version of the future. At one point Chris Matthews complained about how President Obama wasn’t at the burial, and Olbermann countered by saying the eulogy was enough. Surprisingly, Matthews withdrew his comment, something he never does. I smiled Teddy’s smile.

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OpSource Unveils Hybrid Cloud Solution For The Enterprise

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OpSource, which provides SaaS and Web applications for on-demand companies, will be launching a Enterprise-targeted Cloud solution, called OpSource Cloud, that hope to achieve the flexibility of the public cloud with the security of the private cloud. Here’s how it works: OpSource Cloud lets each user create a “Private Cloud” within the public Cloud, allowing the client to determine their own degree of public Internet connectivity.

OpSource Cloud, which will be unveiled to the public in October, features uber-customizable security settings, giving the user full control over firewall settings. Other security features include level logons and passwords, operational permissions and departmental and sub-department reporting. OpSource says it will be using VMware for virtualization and application portability between the Cloud and clients.

I demoed the the product from sign-up to basic implementationâ€"OpSource is incredibly easy and quick to set up. You can pay by hour usage, ensuring you are only paying for time that is being used, similar to other public cloud offerings. OpSource Cloud also offers APIs for additional integration. Of course, OpSource faces stiff competition from the giants in the public and private cloud space like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, HP etc. But OpSource’s CEO says that the company wants to give enterprise clients the best of both worlds when it comes to the private and public cloud. It will certainly be interesting to see if this can actually be accomplished.

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VMware Launches New Virtualization Products

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Virtualization giant VMware is launched two new products at its annual conference tomorrow, VMworld. The first is a suite of VMware’s existing virtualization solutions, called the VMware vCenter Product Family. The suite is built on top of VMware’s vSphere 4 to help enterprises create and maintain dynamic and flexible IT infrastructures.

VMware says that they have received an overwhelmingly positive response the latest generation of vSphere 4, with approximately 75 percent of customers planning to upgrade to VMware vSphere 4 within the next six months.

VMware’s second product launch is targeted towards small to medium sized businesses. VMware Go is a free beta service that makes it simple for clients to get started with virtualizing their applications. A web-based service, VMware Go will lets companies run multiple operating systems and applications on a single server, helping SMBs to spend less money on hardware, energy and server administration.

VMware has had a big month. The company recently acquired SpringSource, a provider of Web application development and management services. The deal closed at a $420 million valuation, with $362 million in cash and equity plus an assumption of approximately $58 million in unvested stocks and options. There was also a small exodus of talent from Google to VMware.

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Teddy’s smile

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Watching Teddy Kennedy’s wake and funeral over the past few days has been a sad but wonderful lesson in the value of public service. By public service I mean the motive variously referred to as empathy, generosity, fairness, and other such terms demonized as liberalism by the new and to some extent old right wing. The Senator’s life consumed not only those labels but the full arc of a career among the people. And in doing so, he now offers a template for success in a polarized era, at a time when hard decisions are finally coming down to a vote.

Chief among his insights was the relentless pursuit of compromise as an art of war. His Republican friends spoke emotionally and graciously, but with strong doses of resistance to the famed Kennedy charm. They recognized him as a formidable opponent who could only be tamed, or at least harnessed, by finding common ground on which they could stand with him. If it was a win for them, they reasoned, I’ll gladly go along for the Kennedy ride. Not to say they didn’t enjoy the camaraderie, the chance to escape the dark hole of the sanctimonious extremists, the true spirit of enterprise that lurks in any politician’s heart. Kennedy gave them the running room to merge into the consensus of the times.

We all underestimated Teddy. From the Left, we were endlessly surprised when he championed the causes his brother Jack delineated but never had the political strength to produce. When Bobby was killed, nothing tore at our weary defeated souls like Teddy’s eulogy, which used the same tones and fierce despair Bobby used in Dr. King’s death. When he anointed Obama as the next brother, he casually let it be known first as Caroline’s idea. The master’s touch, from someone we always felt was a weaker version of the sons, fourth in line to the throne.

Now he’s gone, and we tremble at the thought there are no adults left to see us through. No matter how beaten up Obama gets, he retains double the popularity of the opposition. The cover of the latest Rolling Stone, with its year-long investigation of why the Beatles broke up (Yoko, for god’s sake), asks the musical question along the top: Is Healthcare Reform Doomed? What would Teddy say to that, we wonder. A quick journey to FriendFeed for the answer.

FriendFeed is the last remnant of the ‘09 campaign. The realtime debate between left and right has calcified most other places into Death Panels versus whatever the Left is selling, oh I know, the Public option. For me, Death Panels is actually a legitimate argument, not for its factual basis (none) but for the same kind of appreciation Republicans saw Kennedy â€" a good frame of a fundamental fear. Just because it comes down on the wrong side of the argument detracts nothing from either its power or its usefulness in the debate.

What Kennedy understood was the power of the model, regardless of the details or even the wins and losses of the struggle. To get a foe to argue not about the issue but about the implementation was an instant and comprehensive victory, and a quick look at Kennedy’s issues shows he won them going away. FriendFeed won the realtime argument the second it launched real-time chat. And when ugly commentary surfaced about Teddy, it bubbled to the top and prompted some direct and unambiguous responses. One retort, and then silence when the tone remained strident and harsh.

What people miss with realtime is the deep change it produces in the arc of the conversation. Some decry realtime as too fast, as prone to snap decisions and 140-character cartoon oversimplifications of complex thoughts. These distinctions â€" RSS is long and detailed, Twitter is bursty and noisy â€" are political planks, not facts. They serve the implementations and the economics of the discussion, not the underlying art of war. Realtime already won the war; now we wait to have it explained to us, and carved out of compromise and perseverance.

When people attack FriendFeed for going away, I’ll see Teddy’s smile. When they attack Facebook for being closed, it’ll be tougher but still, Teddy’s smile. When Rolling Stone questions heathcare’s health, I’ll see it as evidence of Obama’s caucus troops going back to the well, energizing their troops with something akin but not yet fully engaged with Death Panels and town halls. The best thing we have going for us is no matter how much we think heath care reform sucks, it sucks less than the alternative.

Teddy’s death gave us something we’ve waited a long time for, a coda to the deaths of brothers, Beatles, and God herself. As the dusk shrouded Arlington and wrapped us all in our reveries, we could each conjure our own version of the future. At one point Chris Matthews complained about how President Obama wasn’t at the burial, and Olbermann countered by saying the eulogy was enough. Surprisingly, Matthews withdrew his comment, something he never does. I smiled Teddy’s smile.

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OpSource Unveils Hybrid Cloud Solution For The Enterprise

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OpSource, which provides SaaS and Web applications for on-demand companies, will be launching a Enterprise-targeted Cloud solution, called OpSource Cloud, that hope to achieve the flexibility of the public cloud with the security of the private cloud. Here’s how it works: OpSource Cloud lets each user create a “Private Cloud” within the public Cloud, allowing the client to determine their own degree of public Internet connectivity.

OpSource Cloud, which will be unveiled to the public in October, features uber-customizable security settings, giving the user full control over firewall settings. Other security features include level logons and passwords, operational permissions and departmental and sub-department reporting. OpSource says it will be using VMware for virtualization and application portability between the Cloud and clients.

I demoed the the product from sign-up to basic implementationâ€"OpSource is incredibly easy and quick to set up. You can pay by hour usage, ensuring you are only paying for time that is being used, similar to other public cloud offerings. OpSource Cloud also offers APIs for additional integration. Of course, OpSource faces stiff competition from the giants in the public and private cloud space like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, HP etc. But OpSource’s CEO says that the company wants to give enterprise clients the best of both worlds when it comes to the private and public cloud. It will certainly be interesting to see if this can actually be accomplished.

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OpSource Unveils Hybrid Cloud Solution For The Enterprise

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OpSource, which provides SaaS and Web applications for on-demand companies, will be launching a Enterprise-targeted Cloud solution, called OpSource Cloud, that hope to achieve the flexibility of the public cloud with the security of the private cloud. Here’s how it works: OpSource Cloud lets each user create a “Private Cloud” within the public Cloud, allowing the client to determine their own degree of public Internet connectivity.

OpSource Cloud, which will be unveiled to the public in October, features uber-customizable security settings, giving the user full control over firewall settings. Other security features include level logons and passwords, operational permissions and departmental and sub-department reporting. OpSource says it will be using VMware for virtualization and application portability between the Cloud and clients.

I demoed the the product from sign-up to basic implementationâ€"OpSource is incredibly easy and quick to set up. You can pay by hour usage, ensuring you are only paying for time that is being used, similar to other public cloud offerings. OpSource Cloud also offers APIs for additional integration. Of course, OpSource faces stiff competition from the giants in the public and private cloud space like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, HP etc. But OpSource’s CEO says that the company wants to give enterprise clients the best of both worlds when it comes to the private and public cloud. It will certainly be interesting to see if this can actually be accomplished.

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OpSource Unveils Hybrid Cloud Solution For The Enterprise

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OpSource, which provides SaaS and Web applications for on-demand companies, will be launching a Enterprise-targeted Cloud solution, called OpSource Cloud, that hope to achieve the flexibility of the public cloud with the security of the private cloud. Here’s how it works: OpSource Cloud lets each user create a “Private Cloud” within the public Cloud, allowing the client to determine their own degree of public Internet connectivity.

OpSource Cloud, which will be unveiled to the public in October, features uber-customizable security settings, giving the user full control over firewall settings. Other security features include level logons and passwords, operational permissions and departmental and sub-department reporting. OpSource says it will be using VMware for virtualization and application portability between the Cloud and clients.

I demoed the the product from sign-up to basic implementationâ€"OpSource is incredibly easy and quick to set up. You can pay by hour usage, ensuring you are only paying for time that is being used, similar to other public cloud offerings. OpSource Cloud also offers APIs for additional integration. Of course, OpSource faces stiff competition from the giants in the public and private cloud space like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, HP etc. But OpSource’s CEO says that the company wants to give enterprise clients the best of both worlds when it comes to the private and public cloud. It will certainly be interesting to see if this can actually be accomplished.

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Zoho Launches Sign-In Integration With Google Apps

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2] Last summer, Zoho, a web-based software suite that includes document, project and invoicing management tools, integrated Google and Yahoo sign-ins, allowing users to sign into Zoho using a Google or Yahoo account. Today, Zoho is launching sign-in integration with Google Apps, letting users login to Zoho using their Google Apps credentials. When Zoho users try to login to Zoho, they'll be given a 'Google Apps' option in the sign-in box. Users can input their Google Apps domain name, and will be redirected to Google to sign-in using their Google Apps credentials. They will be given the option of authorizing "accounts.zoho.com" and will then be logged in to Zoho directly.

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Bechtolsheim’s Arista Networks Releases A Virtualized Network OS For The Cloud

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Andy Bechtolsheim’s cloud computing startup Arista Networks, which sells 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches aimed at handling the loads at cloud-computing data centers, has launched a new product today called vEOS (virtualized Extensible Operating System) Software. The software sits on top of their switches and glues physical, virtual, and cloud servers, using VMWare.

Arista’s Network’s switches act as a link between those physical servers in corporate data centers, virtualized servers, and the cloud. With vEOS, IT organizations can now move workloads from physical servers to virtual machines and to cloud infrastructures while maintaining segmentation, trust boundaries, and policy control.

The advantage to having vEOS software is that the system will bridge the virtualization gap between physical and virtual networks. vEOS will be available in the fourth quarter of 2009. Arista is the brainchild of David Cheriton and Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and more recently a bunch of networking startups which were bought by Cisco, like Granite Systems (and is an early investor in VMWare).

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Amazon Eyes Big Enterprise Budgets With Virtual Private Cloud Service

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2]Wanna extend your existing IT infrastructure to the cloud? Amazon can help. Amazon Web Services is today announcing the limited public beta of Virtual Private Cloud (aka Amazon VPC), a service that essentially makes it possible for customers to create their own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances to connect to their existing network over a secured VPN connection. That means Amazon Web Services is taking a major step in making its cloud computing services even more enterprise-friendly than they already were. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has published a lengthy but read-worthy blog post for the occasion, in which he acknowledges that enterprises tend to find it challenging to transition applications and services to the cloud when they have often invested years of resources and tons of money setting up their own IT infrastructure (datacenters, networks, etc.).

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NeXplore to Roll Out Web-based Office Suite

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NeXplore, best known for its Web 2.0 optimized search engine, has announced the acquisition of a Web-based operating system and application suite from Milana Corporation, a Seattle-based desktop software developer.

The acquisition will enable NeXplore to offer a cloud-based personal desktop, replete with an array of free SaaS desktop applications for managing and consolidating email accounts, contacts, calendars, music, projects, and more. “The convenience of having universal access to a personal, application-rich desktop and a single, secure place on the Internet for managing and storing virtually every facet of a person’s computer and Internet activity aligns perfectly with NeXplore’s mission to radically improve the online experience for everyone,” said Edward Mandel, chief executive officer for NeXplore Corporation.

NeXplore seems to be taking a page out of Google’s book with the move, hoping to gather users around its core search product with a bundle of free peripheral applications. The company states that the desktop-as-a-service offering to be available to registered users in Q4 2009.

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The Would-Be FFugees Shouldn’t Pack Up And Find A New Home Just Yet

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.3]Following Facebook's acquisition of FriendFeed, a lot of users in that community were up in arms. Basically, everyone was quick to jump to the conclusion that FriendFeed, as we knew it, was dead. And with the comments immediately following the deal, the parties on both sides did little to change that line of thinking, basically saying things along the lines of "we'll see." Many users were threatening to leave the service immediately, turning them into yes, FFugees. Well, now that the FriendFeed team is successfully in their new Facebook office and working to get up to speed on their new site, Steve Gillmor got a chance to catch up with FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit, and to ask him some of the questions that Mike didn't touch on too much during his interview with Buchheit last week. Warning, the video below is quite long (over 50 minutes) and free-flowing at points, so I'll summarize some of the key things said first.

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SocialToo Launches App That Allows You To Publish From Facebook To Twitter

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2] SocialToo, a startup that lets you manage your personal connections on Twitter and Facebook, has launched a new Facebook application that lets you post updates to your Facebook wall, to Twitter, and any Facebook Fan Page you manage. This feature is particularly interesting after Facebook just released a feature that will allow Facebook Page owners to syndicate their updates from Facebook to Twitter â€" something that users have been asking for for ages. At the moment, it's unclear whether Facebook will be extending this feature to Facebook Profiles. Here's how it works: after installing the application on your Facebook profile, you will be given a prompt in the Publisher's drop down menu to publish via SocialToo Status. After authorizing your (via oAuth) Twitter accounts, you will be able to select a publish to Twitter option each time you post an update on your Facebook feed via the SocialToo Status option. You can also publish to various Facebook pages (if you are the administrator). When you publish via SocialToo Status, your updates will appear in your personal stream, along with a link to each destination, i.e. Twitter and Facebook Pages. There will also be a little green SocialToo quote icon with each post, differentiating the posts from a regular status update.

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