Links

Nuke the Hamptons: a very interesting site.

Will OggVorbis beat MP3 Pro? Will Netscape 6.1 beat IE 5.5? Will OpenBSD 2.9 overtake Linux? Unlikely. But should be interesting to watch.

A review of Spielberg’s A.I. with lots of spoilers.

The US Copyright office has come up with a Copyright search engine.

Danny Yee’s micro-advertising experiment indicates that weblogs like Robot Wisdom (which is quite impressive) may be more effective than Google.

Feed is dead. Suck is dead. Thankfully, Plastic is alive. Demise of a Net Magazine.

A note from my friend Ashish: “To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Should your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset. So even if the thief changes the SIM card your phone will be totally useless. If everybody did this, there would be no point in stealing mobile phones.” ...

The Gartner Group, which focused on IT strategy, has launched GartnerG2, which will talk about business strategy.

Intruiging, but Collins (author of Built to Last) finds that the most successful executives are filled with self-doubt and humility.

Envisionet filed for Chapter 11 (they’re bankrupt), and sent a reassuring e-mail to their employees, telling them it was business as usual.

BCG New Delhi is now officially on the BCG world map.

Changemakers.net is a journal/portal for social entrepreneurship. That is, people who’re changing society in a new way. Normally, I wouldn’t have given this a second thought, but the site appears so extensive, and the concept so intruiging, that I think it’s worth a browse. DigitalDivide.org is based on a similar theme, except for the Internet world.

Keep up with Yahoo’s buzz.

If you don’t believe in online theft, read the diaries of hackers who make six figures, or stores of junk-mail hoaxes. If you’ve already been had, share your sorrow at Card cops.

And now you can send out your genes into space. You write a poem on your photo, stick your hair on it, and they’ll throw it into space. Read the FAQ. Oh, and by the way, it costs $50. If they can store 4.5 million submissions, and get $30 per submission (after discounts), they still make $135 million. Plus merchandise, advertising, etc. How much does it cost to launch a spacecraft? (NASA lets you send your name to Mars for free, though. I signed up and got a certificate.)

Carl Steadman’s book, NetMogul, is evolving online. It’s about dot-com startups. What I liked best was the way the book has been formatted online.

Here’s a new one. A study shows that unhappy workers are better than happy ones. Throw the Hawthorne effect out of the window.

If you have a POP account and want to read mails on it, MailReader.com offers a good web interface. Their mission statement is a revelation.

After the good worm, we now have the social worm, which searches for child porn and reports it. This is starting a Robin Hood-esque trend.

I shifted from Netscape Navigator to Internet Explorer because I could cut and paste tables from IE to Excel. But now that I’ve downloaded Opera 5.11, used its zoom function, it’s gesture keys, and so on, I’m moving over to Opera. Long live Opera! (Which, given Netscape’s fate, is perhaps no more than a fond hope.)