Bookmarks for November 29th through December 1st

• Abusing Social Media – iphone applications – web 2.0 | Fast Company – Article talking about how companies can make themselves look stupid using social media. Some points I agree, others I don't. I think comcasts twitter participation has been a positive thing. Same can be said for starbucks.
• Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software – BusinessWeek – "As the recession puts pressure on tech spending, many companies are turning to open-source software to handle more IT tasks "
• Open Source: A Silver Lining in the Economic Slump – BusinessWeek – "Sales at open-source software companies are booming, even as stock prices slump and corporate IT spending plummets, Are the good times here? "
• InfoQ: IronRuby moves to Github – Microsoft moving IronRuby to git and hosting it on github.
• The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple – Engadget – The Simpsons rails on Apple. Pretty damn funny.
• jQuery plugin: Accordion – "This plugin creates an accordion menu. It works with nested lists, definition lists, or just nested divs. "

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