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Today, Tuesday, September 20 at 10:00 a.m. PST, we'll be holding our first live chat on The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization. We had a lively discussion on Twitter with yesterday's RWW Big Question. Now If you want to continue the conversation interactively on our live text chat, just come back to this post at 10:00 and join in the conversation.

The discussion will be led by our very own David Strom with three experts from our partner NetApp - Jean Banko, Vaughn Stewart and Julian Cates - and Wen Yu from VMware.

In the midst of all the Google Plus hype last week, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped in an interview with reporters that the company is going to announce "something awesome" this week. The statement was cryptic and a giant tease to tech reporters looking for the next big story. Now Facebook has to live up to the words of its CEO and actually deliver something awesome.

Awesome is a pretty subjective word. What could be awesome to Zuckerberg could be lame to the rest of the world. What could that be? Powers of deduction around the rumor mill have pointed to some type of Skype integration with Facebook. Zuckerberg made his comments at the Seattle Facebook office. Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond are 15 miles from Seattle. Microsoft was an early investor in Facebook and has had a good relationship with the company. Microsoft bought Skype not long ago. Do all these signs lead to Skype integration within Facebook connected with a guiding hand from Microsoft? Or is it something else entirely, like new photo-sharing tools or an HTML5 application store? Let's take a look at the rumors to see what kind of awesomeness could be released in Palo Alto, Calif. tomorrow.

New York based video startup, blip.tv made a series of partnership announcements this morning at a live press conference held in the company's offices. Today, blip.tv is expanding their distribution network thanks to new partnerships with YouTube, Vimeo, NBC Local Media New York, and Roku while expanding their current relationships with other current distributors. Along with these deals, the company also revealed their completely revamped content owner dashboard, the central hub for managing media using their service.