All in all, it sounds like Apple's annual shareholder meeting was pretty normal but there are inklings that Apple will be heading into home servers (which I'm excited about and can't believe Apple took so long to enter) and better .Mac features.

The whole software industry is being forced open source by a growing legion of open-source developers.

Quoted: Hoping to win the hearts and minds of millions of internet programmers, the giants of the software industry are starting to sing a new song: Free your software and developers will follow.

I really like the direction Amazon.com has been taking in the last couple of years with their major initiatives in the Web Services space. This article has Jeff Bezos discussing these new services at the Emerging Technology Conference.

Quoted: By making a handful of Web services applications open to outsiders, Amazon.com is building additional sources of revenue while creating computing models for the future, the CEO said at MIT's ongoing Emerging Technologies Conference.

An in-depth discussion about running XP as a VM on your Mac.

Quoted: Rob Griffiths has already run Windows XP on his Mac mini with the help of hackers' tricks and Boot Camp. So it stands to reason he would test drive Parallels Workstation, a virtual machine technology that lets you run multiple operating systems on top of OS X.

Quoted: Developers are joining blocks of interchangeable software components together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs.