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links for 2006-03-27

  • Adactio: Journal – Talking about microformats
    Jeremy talks about doing more with events & geotagging, following his successful panel at SXSWi
    (tags: microformats sxswi2006 sxswinteractive webdevelopment web2.0)
  • Flickr Backup
    Useful little app that lets you save your Flickr photos to your harddrive
    (tags: software flickr sourceforge opensourcesoftware)
  • Father of Wiki Speaks Out on Community and Collaborative Development
    Always interesting to read what Ward Cunningham has to say, especially about having worked for MS
    (tags: microsoft web wikis agiledevelopment)
  • Computerworld | Hilf speaks about Linux through Microsoft eyes
    Who would have thought that Microsoft actually TESTED interoperability with OSS? Nevermind having 8-10 people and a few hundred servers dedicated to it…
    (tags: microsoft linux opensourcesoftware softwaredevelopment testing)
  • USATODAY.com – Law professor bans laptops in class
    I completely understand the professor’s feelings on this (people with laptops are very hard to engage), but equally I imagine in a few year’s time students won’t be CAPABLE of taking notes by hand…
    (tags: education notes technology laptops teaching lecturing)
  • God smiles on Sun and delivers grid computing miracle | The Register
    Wow, I had no idea that this hadn’t gone live back in 2004 when it was originally announced. Craziness.
    (tags: computing sun grid hardware cpu power processing)
  • BBC NEWS | Health | Clue to slow human bird flu jump
    “Researchers found the bird flu virus attaches itself to cells deep down in the human airways.”
    (tags: birdflu masspanic bbc news health)
  • Social bugs and localities
    “Maybe the way to reduce trolling is not to display real locations, but to fake them – increasing the number of users who appear to be from the same town as you, in the hope that you’d take more care in your own backyard.”
    (tags: socialengineering society webdesign usability)
  • Microsoft Vista: Not ‘People Ready’ – Forbes.com
    “If Ballmer knew he was about to announce a delay and still had this event, he’s crazy. If he didn’t know Vista was about to slip again, then Microsoft is in worse shape than anyone realizes.”
    (tags: microsoft vista windows delayed forbes news)
Posted by delicious @ 12:20 PM on March 27, 2006
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