A weekly summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk...

• It's a sad day when you need to buy an iPhone application to instantly find the nearest D.U.I lawyer. Or, how about the guy that watched a football game on his laptop from a cruise ship using his cellular wireless card. The bill was only $27,000.

• QualityLogic took a run at DLNA test tools a few years back with minimal success. Now it looks like DLNA is coming into its prime with Windows 7 support and even a printer from HP that talks DLNA.

• There are several insightful post this week focusing on macro trends. The first by Steve Rubel of Edelman Digital explores key digital trends in 2009. I found a couple of gems in this post, including the revelation that search keywords focus on the problem not the solution. The second post, by Google's Vic Gundotra, explores why applications in the cloud will ultimately trump mobile phone apps. And finally Google's Kevin Marks take on making the web more social.

• I've heard the term software appliance, but never quite got the gist of it until I recently downloaded Mindtouch's great Wiki in a VMware runtime prepackaged with Debian Linux, MySQL, and the Deki application. This post on Network World does a great job explaining this space.

• I continue to fall in love with my Kindle 2. This xconemy post drills into the amazing E-Paper technology behind the Kindle. The article makes me want to run out an plunk down $3,000 for a E-Paper developer kit to see what I can come up with. Neat stuff.

• Testing services is a big part of QualityLogic's business and I found this ZDNet post on the trend towards onshore outsourcing particularly interesting. The post provides some validation for our strategy of offering onshore testing at offshore prices at our Boise lab.

• Although I am not exactly a People magazine reader, I did find this post on Google's Marissa Mayer particularly fascinating. As Google employee number 20, she undoubtedly has countless millions, but continues to be the gatekeeper for everything that might impact the user experience on Google.

• Finally, a rather heart wrenching post on the use of Twitter to help find two missing skiers. I can't say that I completely get Twitter, but I am increasingly impressed by the breadth of its impact.

More next week...

Jim