Laird OnDemand: Visual Map of the Cloud Computing/SaaS/PaaS Markets: September 2008 Update
http://peterlaird.blogspot.com/2008/09/visual-map-of-cloud-computingsaaspaas.html

Visual Map of the Cloud Computing/SaaS/PaaS Markets: September 2008 Update Four months ago, Kent Dickson and I created a visual map of the Cloud, SaaS and PaaS industry. It proved to be a popular item - we got a lot of comments and continue to see traffic to my blog page. I was long overdue to create a second version - comments needed to be integrated, and the industry has changed enough to warrant a round of updates. This blog entry contains an updated version of the map.

While we've long been fans of Twitter, one of the biggest digs critics take at it is that it's full of pointless chatter. But one of the more interesting and truly useful trends sparked by the microblogging service is the way street-food vendors have flocked to it to relay info to customers. This is particularly helpful with vendors who switch up locations from day to day—or hour to hour. In retrospect, it almost seems like Twitter was made for this purpose. What better way for a roving kitchen to publish crucial intel, from the field, without a dedicated internet connection?

mobile foode vendors around the U.S. on twitter and other services.