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  1. BTW, kudos to @jenmacl for being a one-woman jobs board for former @38Studios staff via her Twitter account. Class and style.
  2. The term "38 Studios" and #38jobs are both trending in the top 5 on Twitter in the US. Let's hope everyone lands somewhere fast.
  3. Wow. MT @tednesi: "The Company is experiencing an economic downturn," 38 Studios wrote to workers. Read it here: bit.ly/JAuljK
  4. You want a cloud tipping point? How about $7.7B in 2 buys in 6 months by SAP? bit.ly/KdRkxl Ariba for $4.3B is the latest
  5. Yay for Reason 2! | RT @strukhoff: Top 10 Reasons to Love #CloudComputing bit.ly/LqjS4B @mjbrender @bacon_is_king @burly_adopter
  6. Love it. @jradoff in VentureBeat on Game of Thrones: Ascent - 'It’s actually more of an anti-Social game.' bit.ly/LqjHq6
  7. Poll: Facebook Beats Dr. House - Our readers weigh in on the best use of #bigdata in the #cloud: bit.ly/JbkJWw
  8. Somebody forgot the box cutter | RT @badarrow: bit.ly/KwSyTB #cloud storage player #Box hits a glitch cc @InfosysCloud
  9. Congrats, Coach! RT @coachwei: Yottaa Closes $9 Million in Funding for Mobile, Web and Cloud Optimization ow.ly/b4k8t
  10. The best phrase I've read all year "...Fast Company, the trade journal of the breathless bullshit industry..." on TED bit.ly/JgM9f0
  11. Nostradamus predicts @Facebook will offer cloud services. OK, he doesn't since he's dead, but I do: bit.ly/JgMr5K cc @InfosysCloud
  12. So, so right | RT @bclevinger: "At this point, TED is a massive, money-soaked orgy of self-congratulatory futurism." bit.ly/JgM9f0
  13. HUGE congrats to @jradoff and Disruptor Beam for landing the Game of Thrones Facebook game deal! bit.ly/9P90Ok #winteriscoming
  14. Sadness. Ernie Chan joins Tony DeZuniga in Valhalla | MT @perezartist: Oh no. We've lost another great talent on.fb.me/KYtOp5
  15. Blogger A Sriram says PaaS needs to do some growing up to catch IaaS. But when it does... bit.ly/JcCnhk
  16. And dropping... | RT @GalenMoore: Modest. RT @WSJ Breaking: Facebook shares open at $42.99, up about 13% from offer price of $38 a share.
  17. @XanderSliwinski If my completely wild-ass guess of a yearly payroll of app. $31 million, that means they couldn't make $60K this week.
  18. Wow. RT @XanderSliwinski: You aren't going to believe this, the 38 Studios check to RI would have bounced. Update: aol.it/Mp6fbi
  19. RT @cnnbrk: #Facebook prices IPO at $38 a share, raising $16 billion in the third-largest IPO in U.S. history. on.cnn.com/L3vGdn
  20. Lve Chat today at 2:30 EDT with Steve Harris of @cloudbees on Platforms that are independent of what they run on: bit.ly/Jz33s6