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Links for Thursday 11th October, 2007

Posted by Roo - 11/10/07 at 08:10:41 am

• Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules – Why thinking to youself ‘oh, I know, we’ll create a Facebook app’ is not the shortcut to popularity, fame and riches.
• Plopp SecondLife – Really easy (a-la Archipelis) free tool for building sculpties for SL. [via qLab]
• Guy Parsons talk at the “reader/writer mashup” – “Adventures in particpatory, interactive, rock’n'roll storytelling.” – Guy’s presentation relivered in a lovely and highly readable format.
• $1 Billion Invested in 35 Virtual Worlds Companies in the Past 12 Months – “Virtual Worlds Management … has announced findings from a comprehensive study of accountable transactions that venture capital, technology and media firms have invested more than $1 billion dollars in 35 virtual worlds companies in the past 12 months”
• Lee ‘Headshift’ Bryant:: Social tools for Internal Communications – “In the old world, IT has done a poor job of understanding basic human behaviours and internal communications has continued to believe that its role is to act a as vehicle for transporting ‘the message’ from the centre to the periphery.”
• Jaiku + Google – This is why my inbox was full of a new burst of Jaiku friend requests yesterday. Let’s hope it’s not another Dodgeball