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.

The newest evolution in technology is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). It has also been referred to as machine-to-machine communication (M2M) and the connected web. According to the Toronto Star, it?s already a $5.6 billion industry in Canada and expected to grow 375% to $21 billion by 2018. – See more at: http://www.climaxmedia.com/you-were-late-mobile-dont-be-late-internet-things#sthash.N1wtdP3K.dpuf

After giving it a bit more thought however, I?m realizing it?s not about the hardware, nor the demos they showed us. The Apple Watch requires a new way of thinking to really make sense of it.

With Autumn before us, also comes the holiday season. Whether you?re a small business, corporation, or somewhere in between, this means campaigns, 14933499_scontent, and craziness for marketing departments alike.

Most traditional marketers don?t know how to beef up their digital skills, a recent Adobe study found. But marketing is becoming more and more digital, which means that finding the right people to manage marketing automation, multivariate campaigns, or digital attribution campaigns isn?t always easy.

On Monday, September 22, the City of Boston announced a new initiative aimed at smoothing out the parking ticket payment system. Boston will be partnering up with locally-based mobile payment platform TicketZen so that people slapped with parking ticket fines can submit the cost using just a smartphone.

HealthKit, which is still under development, is the center of a new healthcare system by Apple. Regulated medical devices, such as glucose monitors with accompanying iPhone apps, can send information to HealthKit. With a patient’s consent, Apple’s service gathers data from various health apps so that it can be viewed by doctors in one place.