links for 2007-07-15
- Gadgets may help merge virtual reality with real life – The Boston Globe “That hipster you always see talking into his Bluetooth headset might soon be able to use a similar device to leap into Second Life without even stepping out of line at Trader Joe’s.” (tags: virtual-reality reality vrx second-life devices)
- Wooster Collective: Fucking With Perception – Hirst’s “For The Love of God” Diamond Skull A genius-level intervention outside White Cube one night. This is a masterpiece. (tags: satire hirst intervention skull diamonds fake)
- miscellaneous factZ » Blog Archive » Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright “Using a simple model we characterise optimal term as a function of a few key parameters. We estimate this function using a combination of new and existing data on recordings and books and find an optimal term of around fourteen years.” (tags: copyright reform theory research data yarp)
- Tech Trader Daily – Barron's Online : Fortune iMeme: VCs Talk About The New Tech Economy; Facebook ’07 Rev To Top $100 Million How to make millions using facebook as a platform. (tags: facebook monetization business platform)
- The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools “30 tools and resources that every seasoned tagger should check out” (tags: tags tag tagging folksonomy tools)
- Featherston Blog: Free 512×512 Seamless Textures “I have just uploaded 100 512×512 seamless textures to my ibiblio site. These images are 100% original, free and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (version 3.0).” (tags: free textures BY)
- Starting out: Creatives clued in to ‘Generation C’ | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph “Future product design has to appeal to this group, who expect to be able to share everything with their electronic social network.” (tags: product-design sociology demographics creativity)
- NewTeeVee Where Are the Joneses? a Winner « “Thirty-six episodes into its run, Where are the Joneses? from comedian Steve Coogan's Baby Cow productions is a fantastic example of what can be done with the serial format with online shows.” (tags: where-are-the-joneses)
- Semapedia.org “With Semapedia you can hyperlink your physical world with knowledge that matters. To do this you create small Semapedia Tags consisting of a cell-phone readable 2D Barcode that will link others to the content you provide.” (tags: 2d barcode wiki realworld tagging)
- Boing Boing: Zune DRM cracked again “A new version of FairUse4WM v1.3 Fix2 from Doom9 is available that claims to remove the DRM license protection from songs” (tags: drm crack zune)