Recommended reading from my Google Reader:

• Top 10 Camera Bags (According to our Readers)
  Published: October 28, 2011
  Source: Digital Photography School
  One of the most researched pieces of photography gear aside from cameras themselves are camera bags. Many photographers are on the hunt for the perfect bag (speaking from personal experience) so its no wonder that our community of readers are always talking about the bags they use. Following are the...
• Want OS Updates? Go iPhone, Android Leaves Users in the Lurch
  Published: October 27, 2011
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Companies and consumers trying to decide which mobile/smartphone OS to adopt might want to look over Michael DeGusta's Android support history chart. DeGusta paints a sad story indeed, demonstrating that no Android phone has consistently received timely OS updates over its lifecycle. In fact, some p...
• Heroku CEO Byron Sebastian: The Rise of the Polyglot Cloud
  Published: October 28, 2011
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  There's a notable absence of (conclusive) studies comparing the current acceptance rate of Heroku, the fast-growing cloud platform for dynamic language-based apps, to that of Windows Azure, DotCloud, CloudFoundry and the numerous other players in the suddenly stormy PaaS space. Perhaps only now are...
• Google Plus Finds Sweet Spot Between Facebook & Twitter
  Published: October 27, 2011
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Google Plus got a few more fun features today in addition to workplace ones. There's a new feature called What's Hot that surfaces popular posts (don't call them "trending"), and a very cool visualization tool called Ripples that lets you watch Plus conversations flow out across the network. These a...
• Latest Neo4j NoSQL Release Takes Oracle Head-on
  Published: October 26, 2011
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  The open source NoSQL graph database that has perhaps attracted the most attention in recent months has been Neo4j, a Java-based DBMS with a RESTful API that supports multiple languages. Earlier this month, Microsoft embraced Neo4j by enabling its use through the Windows Azure cloud platform, whose...
• Red Vs. Green: SUSE Backs OpenStack, Red Hat Stands Alone
  Published: October 26, 2011
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  This week, SUSE announced that it had joined OpenStack and today the company announced a development preview of SUSE Cloud which is powered by OpenStack. With the green team at SUSE behind OpenStack, along with Canonical, does that make OpenStack the de facto open source cloud? Not so fast – I wou...
• Inspiring The Internet Of Things: A Comic Book
  Published: October 25, 2011
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  The Internet of Things is one of our favorite trends at RWW. When it finally becomes ubiquitous, we'll be that hipster blog that liked IoT before it was cool. To help usher in the future, the Danish Alexandra Institute has just released a comic book called "Inspiring the Internet of Things," which e...
• John McCarthy (1927 - 2011), Believer in Humanity
  Published: October 25, 2011
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  There are two important concepts first articulated by Prof. John McCarthy of Stanford University, neither of which actually imply that computers will ever evolve to become intelligent, rational creatures. One is that electronic machines can learn functions and processes. Throughout the 56 years si...
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