OStatic’s Mike Gunderloy sifts among the rubble of an Ivan Krstić’s One Laptop Per Child post to discover something truly interesting: Open-source developers are flocking to the Mac.

I switched to OS X and find it to be an overwhelmingly more enjoyable computing experience….The vast, near-total

… Source:The Open Road

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There are a number of interesting tidbits floating around the web this morning. Among the best:

• The VAR Guy compares Google’s impressive growth against Microsoft’s and comes to this conclusion: “[S]orry, Microsoft bashers: The software giant isn’t collapsing.” Potty.
• Flock raised another $15 million in a Series D round. Why is anyone still funding this paltry Firefox feature? Flock claims that it gets paid for search placement, but given its niche following, who cares?
• The Guardian spoke with Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth about a wide range of things, from how he hires to the changing desktop market. On this latter point, Mark said, “[P]eople are increasingly defining the desktop as the thing that they get access to the internet from. In that case, there’s a real possibility that we’re able to shift people onto different platforms.” Like Ubuntu, of course.

… Source:The Open Road

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Maybe IT doesn’t matter, after all. At least, not as much as it should.

A recently released survey of chief financial officers and their views on technology spending found that roughly 57 percent say they are getting an acceptable return on investment (ROI) from their tech spending. Lest you think that the CFOs are too distant from the chief information officer to have a true grasp on ROI, keep in mind that the survey found that 41 percent of organizations have CIOs reporting to CFOs. The Computer Sciences Corporation conducted the annual survey of 629 CFOs in association with the Financial Executives Research Foundation.

Other data from the “Technology Issues for Financial Executives” study was equally interesting:

• Among those surveyed, IT spending has increased over the last three years, and is expected to grow in 2008, as well.
• Greater than 50 percent recommend medium to high ROI on technology investments but only 11 percent reported a “high” ROI.

… Source:The Open Road

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Filed under: Productivity, Internet Tools, iPhone

I’ve tried a lot of on the web time-tracking solutions and have personally come to love Harvest for its simplicity, good looks and — more than anything — the great tools they provide to make punching in and out easy enough that people might actually do it. They’ve had a Dashboard widget (also available for Yahoo! Widgets) for some time which allows for insanely fast job tracking, whether entering it in post or starting and stopping a timer. You can even use Twitter from your phone to halt a running job timer if you forget. As of last Thursday, though, you can handle all of your time tracking and expense logging through a spiffy iPhone interface.

I’ve high hopes for the opening of the App Store and the veritable bounty that the Mac developer community will be able to offer. In the meantime, I’m really enjoying the number of highly-useful sites that are offering iPhone portals, and the companies and developers that are stepping up to provide services for a device which they must concur isn’t a passing fad.

Thanks, Danny!

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