The nice folks at O'Reilly (Tim, not Bill) Media have published "When Hardware Meets Software," my incisive, mildly humorous and entirely free white paper about the Internet of Things. It's a good read, and fairly useful in case someone approaches you at a party and starts talking about the IoT ...
Here's the link: http://www.oreilly.com/iot/free/when-hardware-meets-software.csp
Enjoy! It's free! Cheerio!