1. Networks Blocking Google TV -- the networks are carrying over their old distribution models: someone aggregates eyeballs and pays them for access. In their world view, Google TV is just another cable company. They're doubling down on this wholesale model, pulling out of Hulu and generally avoiding dealing with the people who ultimately watch their shows except through ad-filled shows on their corporate sites. (via Gina Trapani)
2. Mobile Market Snippets -- lots of numbers collected by Luke Wroblewski. After the Verizon iPhone launched …

If you're reading news, watching videos, or playing games online, you're probably relying on MySQL to do so.

Facebook, YouTube, BBC News, Zynga, thePlatform and many other leading Media & Entertainment organizations chose MySQL to power their online news, gaming, social networking, advertising or other applications.

During the past decade, the Media & Entertainment industry experienced a spectacular transformation.  The mobile Internet is becoming the dominant media platform, and the boundaries between the different types of media (i.e. Print, TV, Radio, Internet) have increasingly blurred as we've gradually come to perform more and more of our daily activities online.

To better understand how MySQL can help you win in the fast paced world of Media & Entertainment, check out our whitepaper " …

If you're reading news, watching videos, or playing games online, you're probably relying on MySQL to do so.

Facebook, YouTube, BBC News, Zynga, thePlatform and many other leading Media & Entertainment organizations chose MySQL to power their online news, gaming, social networking, advertising or other applications.

During the past decade, the Media & Entertainment industry experienced a spectacular transformation.  The mobile Internet is becoming the dominant media platform, and the boundaries between the different types of media (i.e. Print, TV, Radio, Internet) have increasingly blurred as we've gradually come to perform more and more of our daily activities online.

To better understand how MySQL can help you win in the fast paced world of Media & Entertainment, check out our whitepaper " …

1. Law of Success 2.0 -- a blog of interviews with famous and/or interesting people, from Brad Feld to Uri Geller.
2. Pioneer One -- crowdsourced funding for TV show, perhaps a hint of the future. Pilot shot for $6,000 which was raised through KickStarter. Distributed via BitTorrent.
3. DrasticTools -- PHP/MySQL visualisation tools, including TreeMap, tag cloud, hierarchical bar chart, and animated list. (via TomC on Delicious)
4. GoogleCL -- command-line interface to Google services. At the moment the services are Picasa, …

1. Apertus -- open source cinema camera. (via joshua on Delicious)
2. A Survey of Collaborative Filtering Techniques -- From basic techniques to the state-of-the-art, we attempt to present a comprehensive survey for CF techniques, which can be served as a roadmap for research and practice in this area. (via bos on Delicious)
3. Drizzle Replication using RabbitMQ as Transport -- we're watching the growing use of message queues in web software, and here's an interesting application. (via …

Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, speaks to The Wall Street Journal.

Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, speaks to The Wall Street Journal.

Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, speaks to The Wall Street Journal.

MySQL is featured on the Google Open Source Blog
Just after leaving JavaOne, Leslie pinged me on IRC to inform me that the MySQL project was featured on the Google Open Source blog. Go on, read Moments of Inspiration.

In other news from mentors, Colin Charles, former mentor and 2008 organization administrator for MySQL dropped a note to let us know that their Community Bonding period is moving along swimmingly. So well, in fact, that their students are already delivering weekly status reports. Colin mentioned that …

And I thought I had no life. (Of course, we don't have Fry's in Oz, either - but at least there's Harvey Norman's, right?) This was thought up by a co-worker who has a sense of humour nearly as twisted as my own. (Speaking of which - where's my MST3K vids already, mate?) I wonder what operating system he uses? I'm thinking Solaris. Or quite possibly Irix. Or - just maybe - Gentoo. Database? That's easy - Informix. Or possibly Postgres/win32 running on Windows NT/Alpha. In any case, I think this guy bears watching.