Interesting Links – Apr 23 08
Today’s links are really varied in terms of their subject topics. A lot has been happening around the Internet and I haven’t got a chance to blog too much in the past few days. Here are some of the more interesting amongst the ones I visited lately:
- Using Laptops as Earthquake Sensors – This is an article on MIT Technology Review which talks about researchers using data collected for a network of laptops to predict earthquakes. This is possible because a lot of modern laptops have built-in movement sensors to protect hard disk damage.
- What is Web 3.0? – a lot of us probably aren’t even aware of this question (much less know the answer). But this question has been around for a long time now (even though no one really knows what Web 2.0 is). However, Jonas Bolinder has put together an excellent post putting together the most plausible answers in one place.
- Facebook launched chat and not everyone is happy – Facebook has finally made chatting available to all users from its website. Of course if you are touching close to 5000 friends then this might be a problem for you. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch found out the hard way.
- Twitter with Ads – For all of you who follow Twitter or know what Twitter is, then here’s an update. Twitter just launched a Japanese version which has embedded ads. I guess that was long awaited (ad integration) as almost everyone wondered what their revenue model is.
That’s all for today folks.
April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Interesting Links