[video] Cloud Will Change Tech Business Model: Red Hat (at CNBC) - Efforts are underway in public sectors and big enterprises to adopt cloud computing, says Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, as he sheds light on the security challenge and the take up of cloud-based applications.

With this year's Summit concluded, it's time to start planning for 2011...

Red Hat Summit and JBoss World Return to Boston in 2011 (Business Wire) - RALEIGH, N.C.----Red Hat, Inc. , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it will host the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Boston, May 3-6, 2011. [Red Hat Market News]

Just an FYI for anyone interested in a great educational opportunity. Register for Red Hat Summit today and save $300...

Dr. Kristof Kloeckner of IBM to Deliver Partner Keynote at 2010 Red Hat Summit (Business Wire) - RALEIGH, N.C.----Red Hat, Inc. , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IBM will be the Premier Sponsor of Red Hat Summit in Boston, June 22-25, 2010, including full sponsorship of the Cloud Computing Track. [Red Hat Market News]

Pete Cashmore @CNN has an interesting piece on Facebook's new "Open Graph" social paradigm.

"Facebook seeks to replace this open system of links between pages with the social links (or Likes) that it controls. Google and other search engines won't have full access to all these Likes, so the company best positioned to rank the Web will be Facebook. No wonder the open web advocates are sounding the alarm"

A recently purchased 500GB laptop drive started acting up. Here's a link to Seagate's testing tool which I used to scan the device & clear a bad block. Disk appears good to go again.