From the feature well: Think of our sequel more as a tragicomedy than a horror flick, suggests editor-in-chief Steve Fox, with elements of an instructional documentary thrown in, if only for good measure. More stupider user tricks: IT horror stories redux. “By user we mean any schlub with network access or oversight who manages a brain fart loud enough to halt the network, compromise it, or in some other way cause harm to the enterprise, and thus the company’s bottom line,” Oliver Rist explains. My personal favorite draws comparison to Ari Gold in a move that led the fired IT guy to trigger every server in the farm to rebuild itself that night, right along with the CEO’s, CFO’s and office manager’s desktops. Perhaps this wasn’t stupid, per se, but it did cause several days worth of living, breathing nightmares for the remaining IT staff. Read last year’s Stupid user tricks right here. Startups: Plenty of folks think business can benefit from MySpace’s sharing techniques, sure, but not many are actually doing anything about it. Nexo, on the other hand, is trying to accomplish just that. While collaborative software is hardly new, “what MySpace does for individuals, Nexo does for groups, letting workgroups, extraprise partners, and SMBs — or any assemblage, really — create and share calendars, bookmarks, videos, tasks, files,” reports Ephraim Schwartz. Read the full story, or view the Month of Enterprise Startups slideshow. The news beat: Microsoft takes a minority stake in CareerBuilder.com and extends the companies strategic alliance under which CareerBuilder serves MSN Careers. As expected, Vonage’s appeal cites the Supreme Court’s recent patent ruling and claims that the March jury verdict against it relied on a standard of analysis that the higher court has since rejected. A clustered NEC array scales from gigabytes to a petabyte, thereby achieving new benchmarks in scalability, availability and performance. And, back to Microsoft here, the company invites hackers back to its Blue Hat conference, a gig designed to garner feedback from external security researchers regarding where Microsoft has gone wrong. Best of the blogs: “It’s shocking how fast the future becomes the past,” Matt Asay writes in this Open Sources post. He’s talking about software, of course, but also about milk and Morrissey. Yes, I do mean glasses of creamy white stuff and the former Smith’s frontman, on stage sans shirt specifically. What do they have to do with software? “I may still sing the old songs, and the Finns may still like their beer, but milk and The Shins/Subways/Flaming Lips/etc. are taking over.” Software Development