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Links for Monday 17th September, 2007

Posted by Roo - 17/09/07 at 11:09:21 pm

• Teasing the world, Microsoft style – Dennis covers the blue monster wine announcement in fine style. Hugh: “Wine is a social obect”.
• [Twitter] Joi Ito: Hello continuous partial friends – Joi describes his twitterbuddies as “continuous partial friends”. It made me chuckle.
• Draw Anywhere – easy online diagramming, flow chart – “DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application”
• eFoundations: Serious Virtual Worlds – Andy Powell’s writeup of Serious Virtual Worlds. Some good thoughts, and the beginning of a discussion, on having remote participants be first class conference citizens. (Credit to Christian Renaud from Cisco on getting me thinking about that on the first day of the conference).
• Doodle – Schedule and event or make a choice.
• Human Brain Cloud – Massively multiplayer word association game. “Look at the word. Type the first word or phrase that comes to mind. This will gradually help build a giant network of associated words you can view.” Now I just want the database.
• taotakashi: Linden Lab reveals the future of Second Life – “Many people these days have certain ideas of how a virtual world of the future might look like. And most of them agree on the fact that it needs to be distributed and open source.”
• IBM’s SiSi virtually translates speech to sign language – Engadget – The SiSi Extreme Blue project gets a writeup in Engadget. Nice work!