Links List 8.8.08

August 8th, 2008 by Julia Lim

Peace Corps meets long-term next-generation global leadership development meets really long-term international business development. IBM’s new Corporate Service Corps program is assisting numerous nonprofits and companies across the globe to become more efficient and more computer-savvy. In a span of three years, over 600 of IBM’s employees will spend month-long projects in countries where it wants a bigger footprint by donating their time and services. A reason (besides getting to work with Doug McClure) to work for IBM.

Buying a lemon is always a bad thing – but when you pay $1 billion for it?! Back in 2005, Google bought a 5% stake in AOL for $1 billion and now is calling that investment “impaired”. That’s one way of putting it, so it’s a good thing Google has money to burn.

At LinuxWorld this week, Bob Sutor, VP of open source and standards at IBM, said that the next 10 years is “do or die” for open source software designed for specific industries. 10 years? That’s like 70 years in open source development time.

And finally…8/8/08…the Olympics are here! Network administrators around the world, except for Terry Childs, will be eyeing office network bandwidth closely as people go online to watch streaming video of the games. NBC and Microsoft will offer 2,200 hours of live video coverage with up to 20 simultaneous live streams of different events. Plus NBCOlympics.com will offer 3,000 hours of on-demand video content. The time difference means that much of the primetime events will be broadcast while the Western hemisphere is supposed to be hard at work. Me – I’m just glad it’s the weekend, and I can get the Olympics fix I’ve been waiting years for.

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August 8th, 2008