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Links for 2008-01-29

Posted by Roo - 29/01/08 at 12:01:54 am

• Testing Blues - “Test is the new development” - the thoughts of some interesting people in IBM Hursley with an interest in testing.
• Guy Kawasaki: How to Change the World: Forget the A-List After All - “Evangelism is not about sucking up to only people who are famous and self-important” … “It was unknown artists, designers, hobbyists, and user-group members who made Macintosh successful, and we could have not identified them in advance.”
• Computerworld: IBM’s Web 2.0 scuffle will dwarf clashes against Microsoft - “IBM hammered away at the way it will integrate its product portfolio that includes messaging, real-time communication, and new social software and rapid application-development tools” … “seems to be playing from behind in many areas…”
• Matter Home - “Matter is a box full of real things you’ll enjoy getting and a new way for companies to talk to people by giving them stuff they’ll want to keep.” I signed up for this. Looking forward to seeing the box on Saturday. [via:Andy Piper]
• Twitter100 - Status of 100 followers at a glance
• Lotus toying with Sametime features including virtual world meetings - Network World - Lotus tries Metaverse: “At the company’s annual Lotusphere conference, Sametime development manager Konrad Lagarde showed off experimental features including a virtual meeting … that included 3-D avatars representing attendees and presentation graphics”
• Kzero: The Explorers. Marketing activity across multiple worlds - “Here?s a table showing marketing activity across multiple virtual worlds. It?s not an exhaustive list, but it?s pretty close (and will be updated as and when).”
• Quicksilver - “A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.”
• JPG Magazine: Stories: How To: Panography - “or how to turn a bunch of photos into one work of art”