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links for 2006-11-21

  • BBC NEWS | Politics | ‘Super nannies’ to help parents
    “A Mori poll for the Home Office suggests 53% of people think poor parenting is the main cause of bad behaviour and 85% blame parents for allowing children to become out of control.”
    Scary stat. Why the difference in the numbers?
    (tags: statistics bbc parenting youth theyoof britain uk asbo antisocial)
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft eyes Office switch test
    “”One of the biggest challenges… is to fight that perception that old versions of software are good enough,” said Microsoft’s Chris Capossela.”
    I.e. they need to trash-talk their own products to get people to upgrade…
    (tags: documentation office quotes microsoft business work productivity)
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘Worm’ attacks Second Life world
    “Linden Lab has promised it will release tools to protect people’s virtual assets in the first quarter of 2007.”
    DRM in Second Life. I wonder if they’ll actually devise a workable model?
    (tags: abuse games ideas research security social technology virus drm secondlife)
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | College teaches via computer game
    Interesting to see more and more use of games and gaming in teaching.
    (tags: computer education games gaming research teaching technology)
  • Thoughts around “Social by Design”… (plasticbag.org)
    “Some people seem to find it impossible to believe that social media can create value even as all around them people seem to do so.”
    (tags: tomcoates plasticbag social socialsoftware socialengineering design engineering money quotes)
  • Make Marketing History: The J Train (A Marketing 2.0 Minifesto).
    Fantastic “Marketing 2.0” manifesto. Some real gold here.
    (tags: advice business management marketing money web2.0 work manifesto cluetrain)
  • FaviconizeTab | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
    Nice little extension that lets you make the tabs tiny again — useful for me when I have hundreds open!
    (tags: firefox extensions opensourcesoftware opensource cool favicons tools)
  • Million Dollar Leverage » How To Set Goals That Don’t Paralyze You
    “To make consistent, powerful headway on your long-term goals, you have to devote yourself to becoming an outstanding manager of your time, effort and focus exactly where you are now. Fixing the process of how you work has to be a top priority.”
    (tags: lifehacks productivity goals longterm future careers focus GTD)
  • RPG-motivational
    These are so very very scary.
    (tags: entertainment funny games gaming humour motivation rpg posters)
  • Seed: When Two Minds Think Alike
    “Evidence from parents in the general population suggests there is assortative mating for systemizing, such that people who are attracted to systems are more likely to have a partner who shares this characteristic.”
    (tags: autism research interesting aspergerssyndrome children genetics)
  • Ten ideas about Ideas | Linux Journal
    “Approaching markets with proprietary intentions — to “own” them, or parts of them — is a fatal mistake. Better to look for how your ideas can make markets. If you do that, you’ll get credit for your ideas.”
    (tags: ideas marketing business work funding internet patents opensource startups thinking technology)
  • gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: the hughtrain
    “It’s no longer just enough for people to believe that your product does what it says on the label. They want to believe in you and what you do. And they’ll go elsewhere if they don’t.”
    (tags: marketing gapingvoid branding cartoons cluetrain manifesto innovation inspiration markets philosophy)
  • Geek to Live: Take better cameraphone photos – Lifehacker
    Some great tips from Gina on taking good cameraphone photos. I have to admit, I don’t even HAVE a “normal” camera anymore — I never remembered to keep it with me. Cameraphones are the future.
    (tags: tips cameraphones cameras geek lifehacker lifehacks mobile technology tools photos)
  • The 90-Day Rule at LifeDev
    “If you’re not thinking about where you want to be 90 days from now, you’ll never end up there.”
    (tags: goals GTD life lifehacks productivity work planning)
Posted by delicious @ 9:26 PM on November 21, 2006
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