Links for 2007-07-12

Posted July 12, 2007 1:17 AM.

• Poor old Mr Vander Wal, a YouGov survey of the hated technology terms puts folksonomy out in front... It seems a bit unfair since it's such a specific piece of terminology, but hey. I still prefer fauxonomy. It's funnier. Also hated blogosphere and blog. One of the founders of Blogger once told me she felt incredibly guilty for popularising that term...
• The lovely Lane Becker has made a reasonable argument for why Pownce is competing with 37Signals rather than Twitter! (1) Yes, Twitter is going for an infrastructure play with social stuff a gateway drug while (2) Pownce is focused with sharing/socialising. But Pownce still seems to me to be--at its core--a life backchannel rather than a productivity aid.
• The trailer for new JJ Abrams movie is pretty gripping... God knows if it's called 1-18-08 or if this is a big preview / teaser for a real name. No clue whether the trailer represents the film or if it's just a fragment or a sideshow. Very interesting. Nice bit of marketing. Clever.
• I'm going to be doing a talk at dconstruct that at the moment I'm calling 'Designing for a Web of Data' It's going to be a fairly personal view on design process when you're no longer knocking out brochureware and editorial sites and are looking to be part of a web of data. Bit scared of it. Too much to do at the moment.
• The question everyone's been asking about the iPhone - what happens when you put it in a blender? The answer may surprise you. Find out more at willitblend.com!
• Uk Bump Keys are--I can attest--a good place to meet your lock-picking needs... Got my set through the post the other day. Very exciting. Now I need to go and buy some locks to pick. Went to a nutso woman's hardware store the other day. Like a hundred years old with scarlet red receding hair and grey roots. Mad jabberings.
• How to upgrade the firmware on your Nokia N800... I've not found myself playing with the N800 so much recently, even though I really quite like it. Main reasons - really have to transcode video to watch it and London doesn't have great free wifi networks. Plus I tried an iPhone...
• The most important thing to watch today: Faceball promo featuring sundry Flickrinos... Dunstan Orchard scares the living crap out of me sometimes...
• MySpace--after saying for months that people building off its platform were leeches who would end up having to pay for the privelege--now wants to follow Facebook towards openness... Facebook, bluntly, has won this particular war. MySpace is clearly on the way out. Facebook has moved itself into a place where you no longer compete with it, you compete with other people on it. Stunning move. Brilliant.
• According to the Daily Express, the BBC's iPlayer is a significant threat to the family! It couldn't get more ridiculous if you dressed it up like a clown and covered it in custard.
• The Media Guardian has released its Top 100 people in the media industry... Nice to see Loosemore wandering into the list. Generally I'm not overly impressed by it. Not a lot of real insight gained.
• The Bishop of Carlisle is--it seems--a bloody idiot... I can't believe I'm linking to the Telegraph, but hey. Apparently floods in Britain are all the fault of a move away from God. The gays, as ever, are one of the core candidates for global warming. Idiot.
• dafont.com has posted up a proposed serif version of Comic Sans... It's actually surprisingly nice. Reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on it.
• Ashley Highfield is apparently looking towards Web 3.0 at the moment. He seems to have skipped over 2.0 pretty cheerfully. Lots of verbiage here, little substance. He's now looking towards 'the world of the semantic web, the Internet that is intelligent'. A search for intelligence closer to home might serve the BBC rather better...