I've been saving up a few choice morsels to share here:

• In the user interface space, there's this quite clever mockup of an innovative multitouch GUI for both hands called 10/GUI. Have a look at the video.
• One of the architects at Digg discusses how they came to use Cassandra in production. These alternative database success stories are certainly proliferating.
• ReThinkDB is a plug-in replacement for MySQL with a number of performance improvements that arise naturally from a log-structured approach to data storage. I had an odd feeling of deja vu while reading through their website because most of their slides and technical exposition could be applied to our storage layer in the Aleri Platform.
• Lastly, a quick write-up concerning the possible application of the MapReduce algorithm to streaming data.

That's all for the moment. In the meantime, it's back to work for me.