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Links for 2007-12-28

Posted by Roo - 28/12/07 at 11:12:31 pm

• Test: Make *all* your audience into Heroes – Matt Locke on ARGs: “I share with Alice a concern that we are importing broadcast ideas into online entertainment formats. … We don’t have to think in terms of funnels and winners in online storytelling…”
• Wonderland: One problem with ARGs – Alice Taylor on ARGs. “the treasure-hunt-using-mobile-phones technique of live theatre seems to be super overused already, and to what return on investment for the marketers, I don’t know.”
• Authors@Google: Randall Munroe – Randall Munroe (xkcd) talks at Google.
• BBC Radio 4 – A Life in Cans – This brilliant documentary from 2005 was repeated on Wednesday 19th. I missed it. Did anyone happen to record it?
• BBC – Radio 4 – Don’t Hang Up – The best radio programme ever, re-broadcast over Christmas.
• Guardian Unlimited: The Guide’s internet picks for December 22 – On Speechification: “…This site helps you hear speech shows you might have missed, from the very recent to the dim and distant past, with MP3s of lost shows and links to the BBC’s listen again service…”. This has boosted our traffic enormously.
• The Guardian: Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008 – Bobbie on the latest web hits. Etsy, Twitter, Dopplr, Moshi Monsters and Seesmic.
• Colors – Nintendo DS drawing tool – “simplistic digital painting application for Nintendo DS … By taking advantage of the pressure sensitivity of the DS touch-screen it becomes perfect portable digital sketch-book.” [via:Rob]
• Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter – “Conversation analytics, links and feeds from Twitter.” I’m trying to ignore the list of ‘Top 100′ ranked users, because I don’t want to play the system. I’d rather use Twitter how I want to use it.
• SRSLY – “Send Help” – That Guy Parsons is a funny chap isn’t he?

   

  

• http://tikirobot.net/TikiChart/ – A frontend to the Google Charts API [via:Guy]