July 4, 2007

Sporadic Link Post

Some of the more notable links from the past weeks:

Google and the deep web - Great blog post summarizing and collecting links about Google's strategies in dealing with the deep web.

People-Powered Search - Article about the newly emerging sites that directly harness human participation to improve search.

How GPUs work - nice introductory piece into the structure of modern Graphics cards. This is for you, if you (like me) believe that GPU are starting to play a larger role in general purpose computing but have no clou how they work internally.

Don't Stand So Close To Me - Social conventions in Second Life. About how much Avatars act like humans in real life.

Second Earth - Long Technology Review about the idea of the "mirror world" (think the combination of SecondLife of Google Earth). You may need to register at technology review - but its an elaborate 11page article, so its worth the hassle.

A video about Spore - Will Wright's (the inventor of SimCity and the Sims) newest project that looks like it can change all ours perceptions what computer games can be and how suitable computer tools can really expand a humans potential (you'll understand me after you watched the video).

And on the funny side of things: Folksonomy is the most hated Internet word and two funny videos about PowerPoint.

As usual you can find all the links at del.icio.us, the newest ones are also always shown in the sidebar of this blog.

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March 21, 2007

Sporadic Link Post

Some particularly interesting /enjoyable links from the past weeks:

Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs. SPAM
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap since Rock and Roll
Google exec confirms phone in the labs
Adobe Apollo launched
Game 3.0?
Alternatives To Second Life and Virtual worlds set for a shake up
The Wright Stuff (about Will Wrights revolutionary Spore game)

Expert system convicted for practicing law without a license

And as usual: you can find all links at del.icio.us, the newest 15 are also always shown in the sidebar of this blog.

(and yes, recently there has been a relatively large number of links related to online games / virtual worlds - but I do think that these developments will be a part of/shape any future web and so they fall squarely within the area of "Web Science")

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March 5, 2007

Sporadic Link Post

Some particularly interesting /enjoyable links from the past weeks:

SecondLife: Please stop doing that to the cat.
Herding the Mop - social sites become more important and a more interesting target for spammers.  
Web 2.0 as a story to be destroyed by hackers.
Bookmarklets - the evil lurking in your browser - often underrated: what a bookmarklet can do.
Java 2007 - what lies ahead for the Java language? 
Video about evil Google master plan.

And as usual: you can find all links at del.icio.us, the newest 15 are also always shown in the sidebar of this blog.

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February 8, 2007

Sporadic Link Post

January 1, 2007

New Years Links

Happy New Year!

The french protest against 2007, calling on the UN to stop time's "mad race".

 A Kiwi has something to say about dreams.

And asked what they are optimistic about, Marvin Minsky is says he's optimistic about the "prospect of immortality" and John McCarthy about world peace (many others where asked as well, you can find all responses here).

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December 30, 2006

Sporadic Link Post

December 8, 2006

Sporadic Link Post

I haven't made a link post for a long time and the number of links amassed in this time is just to large to post them here - so here is a selection (you can find all links at del.icio.us, the newest ones are always shown in the sidebar of this blog).  

AT&T accurately predicts the future, incorrectly picks delivering company.
OLPC usability - a look at the UI of the 100$ laptop (really quite different)
Riya's Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search.
Google Ad revenue 'to surpass TV'
Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud
Pope says that AI researchers risk fate of Icarus

The Future of Entertainment? Very well written article on the making of Lonelygirl15 and what it might mean for the future of entertainment.

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