links for 2007-07-29

• VentureBeat » Sunday gives you personal assistants every day of the week
  Wow - utility pricing for help with personal errands. $29 for 30 task requests or $49 for 50.
  (tags: tools)
• OSCON: Yahoo! Releases YSlow, Performance Analyzer
  Yahoo has opensourced a tool for finding performance flaws in websites. Want to check out Steve Souders' Web 2.0 slides.
  (tags: tools readlater)
• There are only 12 kinds of ads. Resist them all! - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine
  "The curtain had been pulled back on all those sly sales tactics at the heart of persuasive advertising."
  (tags: advertising)
• Geek To Live: Manage your life via SMS - Lifehacker
  Neat. SMS expense and gas mileage trackers. And task reminders.
  (tags: mobile)
• MSFT Financial Analyst Meeting: Ray Ozzie
  Microsoft will offer “lowest, lowest possible cost” for enterprises to move IT infrastructure into the cloud
  (tags: MSFT)