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Funny cats and corporate life
moar funny pictures via Aide-mémoire
Kate Carruthers
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InfoSec News Subject: [ISN] Warning sounded over 'flirting robots'
Here is a great story from ISN on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:27 -0600 (CST) - now the bad guys can extract personal info using flirting robots. Talk about paranoia for online dating! "http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9831133-56.html By Ina Fried, December 7, 2007 Those
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Journalism Professor Says Citizen Journalists Should Be Regulated
Over at Techdirt it has been noted that "David Hazinski, a journalism professor and former NBC correspondent, claiming that 'unfettered' citizen journalism is 'too risky' and that it needs to be regulated (via Romenesko) by 'official' media companies, handing out 'certificates'
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Largest Adobe Flash crash in the world
This via Michael Krigsman is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time - it's an error on the huge billboard in Times Sqaure in New York. "The big screen in New York’s Times Square runs Windows and Adobe Flash. I guess you
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Philip Rosedale Answers Your Second Life Questions
Over at Freakanomics they did a Q&A with the creator of Second Life, Philip Rosedale about Second Life (aka SL). This is interesting stuff - the questions are wide ranging from security and privacy to economics. But I still don't think that SL is a very
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My celebrity look-alikes
I can't believe that crappy program says I look like these celebrities! via Aide-mémoire
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NSW Pearcy Award 2007 - to the non-cricketing Waughs
Great to see that Pia and Jeffrey Waugh have been awarded the NSW Pearcey Award 2007 for their collaboration within the open source software sector and their sustained contribution to the Linux movement in Australia (more at LinuxWorld) via Aide-mémoire
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Twitter visit on YouTube - too funny
This visit to Twitter by Loïc Le Meur is very amusing ... via Aide-mémoire
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Loïc’s List for Internet Start-ups
Loïc Le Meur est un « serial entrepreneur » français de 35 ans, he recently shared his 10 tips for internet startups: 1. Don’t wait for a revolutionary idea. It will never happen. Just focus on a simple, exciting, empty space and execute as fast as possible. 2. Share your idea.
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Has Being Skunk Drunk on the Bust Jumped the Shark?
Good discussion by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on Mashable: Have we really drunk the koolaid? Has the interet jumped the shark? I think there is business value in the internet yet. But I also think there is a lot of dross in the market. But you need that volume
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Presentation: Online Collaboration - Frameworks for Success
Copy of my presentation from Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration Conference yesterday available on slideshare via Aide-mémoire
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TED Talk by Philippe Starck: Why design?
Philippe Starke, the famous designer talking about design -and without Powerpoint! I stayed in one of his hotels in New York earlier this year - it was very gorgeous and funky. His ideas about user centred design are very interesting. http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf via Aide-mémoire