The Pivot to IoT. Rainmakers, Recipes, Fungibility, Sensors.

Saw this announcement about Pivotal, Benjamin Black and foray into IoT. The competitive landscape gets set out in the article with PTC, IBM, Cisco, Citrix, GE and others. Scroll down to the paragraph with "sensors aren't fungible" for the central issue in IoT, the nature of sensors and their natural environment, in a nutshell.

Interesting concept fungibility. And while one is on the topic of sensors and IoT... here is Oak Ridge Sensorpedia. And here is a sensorpedia recipe. Blogged before about great IBM IoT recipes... $3B investment in new division is quite an IBM announcement. Will this make IBM the rainmakers?

Best Internet of Things IoT Blogs.

Went looking for a list (even if just opinion) of the best blogs for Internet of Things, IoT. Had criteria that it be reasonably outward looking, agnostic and current. Did not exactly find what sought. But some related things...

Best IoT Twitter accounts from Link Labs. Postscapes seems to come up often. Some general trend watchers have some good IoT materials like PSFK. There are some personal opinions, which sometimes lead back to trend watchers and consultants like McKinsey. Big companies, of course, come up on search for best IoT blogs - Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Cisco, Bosch, PTC, and so on. Some smaller entities come out too like Stephenson (local in Massachusetts), Adafruit (prototyping supplier).