If you?re like most entrepreneurs, CEOs and hiring managers whom are in the midst of building (or thinking about building) a digital product, the topic of ?UX? has undoubtedly come up as being something (or someone?) to consider within the scope of the project.

Have you ever felt as if life is streaming by you? Have you wished that the never-ending scroll of tweets, Facebook posts, 24-hour news cycles, videos and GIFs could be streamlined into a highlight reel?maybe even read to you?

Facebook announced a pair of open source efforts Monday at its inaugural @Scale conference in San Francisco, including an organization called TODO that will help other companies get started down their own open source paths, and a new networking tool called mcrouter.

The best apps know how to use push notifications to their advantage. They?ve figure out how to make their service part of their users? daily routine, and they leverage push as a vehicle to do this.

I was planning to go to this meeting here in town about ?Preparing for the post-IaaS phase of cloud adoption? and it brought home to me how backwards people are generally thinking about cloud. So now you get Ernest?s Cloud Rant of the Day.

Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital gave a fascinating interview to the Wall Street Journal, expressing a great deal of concern for the nine digit funding rounds being raised by later stage startups. Interestingly, he wasn?t laying blame at the feet of valuations ? it was burn rate that was most worrying, and Fred Wilson chimed in later in the evening, echoing the same sentiment.