Oracle buys Sun Microsystems – Big news this week, Oracle, MySQL’s oldest rival, is purchasing Sun Microsystems, the current owners of MySQL. Lots of articles that make for interesting reading in hindsight now. Interesting perspective here.
Google Analytics API – Google have finally opened up Google Analytics via an API, which opens up all sorts of of lovely possibilities. Will be interesting to see the impact it has on the “metrics” community.
Google Profiles – This is the kind of thing that if Google put more than minimal effort into it, could kill LinkedIn etc in a heartbeat. They’re probably acutely aware of this 
Google blog post on the addition of profiles.
Memcache Server Hardware – Hardware specifically designed for the open source caching system (via Justin Mason).
