Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort. uses 3 different AMI images (load balancer, server, and db) to add capacity and detect failures. kinda cool.

Lovd By Less — Who loves you, baby?. rails based open source project for making social websites.

Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion - Times Online. i really have no idea what sun’s business model is anymore.

“QNX has announced that effective immediately, the company will open the source code to its QNX embedded, RTOS, microkernel operating system”. Is there much use for this anymore? Adam? via ram.

Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not). wesabe has introduced a pretty cool firefox plugin which lets you automate your bank statement downloads and upload them to wesabe.

Lawrence Lessig is changing his academic and activist focus. he’s going to start focusing on “corruption”, in however he defines that. via ram.

Paul Dowman ยป Public Ubuntu & Ruby on Rails Image for Amazon EC2. not that i have an ec2 account, but handy.

Firebug 1.0 beta. this update is so sweet. if you do any kind of javascript dev, download this now.

LifeIO: most ambitious PIM yet? quick post on cnet about a pretty cool looking calendar/PIM web app that’s still in private beta. it’s also uses on a new opensource ajax platform called jitsu. looks pretty cool but no idea how well it works.

SimpleTicket - Open Source Trouble Ticket System. very nerdy thing to link to, but pretty cool. i love seeing companies who’s biz model is open source / paid installation / hosted solution. gotta love ajax.

Google at work on desktop Linux | The Register. This is a huge win for Ubuntu. I bet google did it just so they can have some consistent linux distro within the company. i’m sure there’s more linux distros in use within the company than there is employees. linux as an OS for my mom is still years away, but for this could be good for lots of cheap, non-tech, early adopters (the non-cheap just use MacOS)

Paul Graham: What Business Can Learn from Open Source Like most essays by Paul Graham, it’s long, funny, and really interesting. He basically talks about how inefficient office life is, how ideas should bubble up (not down), and the inherent problem of the boss/employee relationship.

Google throws bodies at OpenOffice | CNET. Gentlemen, start your engines. I think a fire just broke out in Redmond.