Links for 2006-12-03 – plasticbag.org

Techcrunch reviews mixd – Yahoo’s new group texting service I think the group texting facilitiescomplete with web-based archives for text and photoswill rapidly prove to have more useful possibilities than the initial event-organising premise suggests…
GoogleBlog bids Adieu to Google Answers I find the two different approaches taken by the two companies to the idea of Questions and Answers profoundly interesting. I don’t think anyone’s quite nailed the full dynamics yet, and look forward to seeing how the field progresses….
The BBC’s Alan Yentob now has an (shudderingly creepy) avatar in Second Life which is flying around for an upcoming BBC TV show I recently spent a bunch of cash in Second Life to try and get an avatar that I actually felt cool, and ended up producing some weird neanderthal looking gay porn-star style figure that sort of embarrasses me to use…
Checked in at Hicks Design again recently, and reminded myself how classy his work is again Much to explore. Consumately classy.
The BBC reports on attempts to reconstruct an ancient device thought to measure the movements of the stars I don’t know to what extent the reconstructions referred to in the article are trusted by Classicists or Archaeologists. I should really explore this more. It’s sort of fascinating…
Loving the eboy Web 2.0 brand-filled pixelposter right about now I want one of these. More particularly I want to make a site that makes it onto things like this. I liked that Odeo and Blogger were surrounded by bikini-wearing hula-hoopers too. Funny.
I have to say I’m really quite impressed by the new Yahoo TV site It’s clean, open, practical. It has a page for every episode of most programmes and things that users can do around them. Generally pretty solid bit of work.
Second Life Economic Statistics Fantastically interesting insight-generating whatsits into the amount of people, land and money in Second Life and what they’re all doing…
Signal vs. Noise on building less and underdoing to win in competitive markets Not sure that I totally buy this, but certainly it’s interesting that Nintendo didn’t take the high expensive compete on raw power route to victory, but instead looked towards making profitable and innovate stuff…
World of Warcraft’s Top List contain information on everything from most popular auctioned items to creature most likely to kill you Not as interesting as the stats for Second Life, unless you’re totally enmeshed in the ecology of WoW which I’m delighted to report, I feel like I’ve finally escaped from…