Two of my colleagues from Channelweb have joined me blogging here in Channelweb Connect.

Ed Moltzen has launched Inside Ball, looking at business and tech trends in the channel. Ed is managing editor in charge of the Channel Test Center, and author of The Chart blog, over on the main site. In one of his first posts here, he cautions against getting too caught up in Google's OS hype:

"Nobody has seen Google's Chrome OS, which the search giant announced Tuesday night. There have been no performance benchmarks, usability evaluations, nothing"

Meanwhile, Steven Burke, Channelweb's Editor for News, has launched The Real Channel, an ongoing series on the "trials and tribulations of solution providers and vendor channel personnel". Steve's one of the most relentless reporters you'll find anywhere, and his insights, like this one on Dell's hiring of channel veteran Nancy Reynolds, should be illuminating:

"Make no mistake about it -- the Reynolds addition represents a move by Dell to go out and recruit HP and IBM partners and bring them into the Dell enterprise posse."