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Links for Tuesday 14th August, 2007

Posted by Roo - 14/08/07 at 11:08:56 pm

• geobloggers » For I am Lord and Master of all Subtlety, Flickr & geo(in)RSS & KML – Nice intro to some new Flickr features. KML support and an RSS feed for geotagged photos. Nifty.
• Neal Stephenson: In the Beginning was the Command Line – “Back in the days of the command-line interface, users were all Morlocks who had to convert their thoughts into alphanumeric symbols and type them in, a grindingly tedious process that stripped away all ambiguity, laid bare all hidden assumptions…”
• Waking up IBM: How a Gang of Unlikely Rebels Transformed Big Blue – “back when the internet took off, a group of IBMers created a manifesto to get the company going” via Michael Rowe
• Moshi Monsters – Teaser for Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters
• Moshi Mash: What the Hell Is a Moshi Monster? – Gizmodo – Mind Candy do something interesting for kids.
• Virtual worlds for kids take off | Technology | The Guardian – “While much media and analyst attention has been paid to the growth in social networking sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, the rapid growth in games sites and virtual worlds targeted at younger children has largely slipped beneath the radar.”
• Irregular Enterprise: Getting data OUT of Facebook – Dennis Howlett on Craig Cmehil’s “getting data *out* of Facebook” hack.
• “Why I love what I do” Scobleizer interviews Irving Wladawsky-Berger – Robert Scoble and Larry Magid interview Irving Wladawsky-Berger for 22 interesting minutes. Irving is one of the more inspirational and contagiously enthusiastic people Iâ��ve had the pleasure of working with at IBM.
• It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, but How You Play the Game: The Role of Virtual Worlds in Education – annotated bibliography – Interesting reading for anyone interested in virtual worlds and education. [Via Bernie Sloan]
• Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech (Metaverse screenshot) – “A global team of IBM developers have created an internal virtual world called Metaverse, which is based on GarageGames’ Torque Game Engine.”
• Laws for a New Frontier – Nice piece on IBM’s virtual worlds guidelines. “Who woulda thunk that IBM – the folks who brought the world mainframes, salesmen in white shirts and thin ties, and those printed placards that said Think — would be a corporate leader on these issues, an
• Electric Sheep – Top 25 Brands Measured By Traffic? – “Let’s not doom our young industry by focusing on the wrong measurements. Let’s begin the dialog about which metrics are important.”