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Links for 2008-03-01

Posted by Roo - 01/03/08 at 11:03:58 pm

• Create a Google Talk chatback badge – Handy. Not sure I want to use it, but handy.
• KnowledgeBoard – ‘IBM gambles on a shift from the KM model’ – “the decentralising impact of Web 2.0 calls for a new approach, or what the big blue calls ‘knowledge sharing’”
• Baekdal.com: Lenovo X300 is Not a Cool Computer – Amusing stuff: “this post is a rant against ThinkPad’s design”… “ThinkPad computers are not ‘cool’ and certainly not something that should be associated with design. They are – all of them – hideous pieces of junk”

• Profilactic.com – preventing an online identity crisis – “Profilactic is a social media aggregator that pulls in just about everything you and your friends create online.” Like friendfeed, but perhaps more so.
• jklabs :: EasyOsc – “EasyOsc is a Java library for doing dead simple Open Sound Control communication.”
• Rethinking Strategy in Second Life (podcast) – “Linden Lab’s John Lester discusses the importance of being an interdisciplinary company, and how other companies and communities must recreate themselves and their perspectives when using virtual worlds like Second Life.”
• NMC Launches Open Virtual Worlds Project – “New Media Consortium (NMC) announced a $250,000 two-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems to launch the Open Virtual Worlds Project, an effort that is aimed at making it easier to learn, work, and exchange ideas in virtual space.”
• Twitter / towerbridge – A twitterbot for Tower Bridge. I’d stopped collecting these, but I like this one a lot.