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Links for Monday 19th November, 2007

Posted by Roo - 19/11/07 at 07:11:34 pm

• IET.TV – 30th Mountbatten Memorial Lecture (Roo Reynolds on Work Learn and Play in Virtual Worlds) – Distressingly, the Mountbatten Lecture video was taken down. When it went back up, it had a new URL.
• Clifton Cameras – Recommended to me as a good source of reasonably priced memory cards.
• BBC News: ‘Virtual theft’ leads to arrest – “It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money. But the only way to be a thief in Habbo is to get people’s usernames and passwords and then log in and take the furniture.” Via Andy P
• film music | mobygratis.com – “This portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.” Via epred
• FeedReader – Trying FeedReader3 from FeedReader.com (if Sacha Chua uses it, it can’t be bad).
• FeedBurner podcast feed for speechification.com – This should be in your feedreader (or, indeed, iTunes) subscription list by now. Russell, Steve and I are regularly bringing the best bits of Radio 4 and other speech radio into your ears.
• Mii Editor: Create and Edit Mii Characters for your Nintendo Wii? – Cute flash editor for Nintendo Wii Mii avatars. Via James Taylor
• SXSWi 2008 Confirmed Speakers – The speaker list for SXSWi 2008 is growing. I’m on there. Yay.
• GamesIndustry.biz: 3D Business – Reality or Fantasy? panel – Very positive reporting of a panel I took part in for the London Games Festival.
• Guy Parsons Building a business on free and the music-industrial complex – Another excellent talk/essay from Guy. “This is the essay of a keynote I presented at the CIDA / Musictank event called Building A Business On Free”
• Amina on Flickr – Rachel and I enjoyed a lovely autumnal walk in the woods with Andy Piper and his missus this weekend. Andy got a lovely photo of Amina.
• Jaffe Juice: Top 10 Reasons why Marketers hate Second Life (but really just hate themselves) – Jaffe: “here are my top 10 reasons why some (not all) marketers either don’t get Second Life or don’t want to get it.” Some great stuff here.
• Urban legends in games – Aleks Krotoski on Urban legends in games. I have used the Club Penguin iceberg example a few times recently (perhaps having heard it via Guy Parsons?)
• Dogear Nation – Episode 30 – Are the Leopard?s Spots Real? – Michael, Michael, and Matt welcome Andy Piper to talk about the UK launch of the iPhone and his experiences with Leopard. They also talk about identify management across corporate and social spaces, Creative Commons, Social Media, and is Leopard Beta
• StupidFilter – “An open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines.”