In order to avoid another overwhelming linkdump, here’s a few that caught my eye recently, or otherwise.
- The endless beta, thanks to Matt.
- Using The Sims to learn a foreign language seems like a fascinating idea, though I’ve never played The Sims. I’d certainly like to know more than English and broken French.
- An annotated version of Neal Stephenson’s In the beginning was the command line, with permission from Stephenson. I own the original in a thin volume. I can’t imagine reading this entire annotation on screen.
- 2005 Edge question, with 120 answers. Much blogged, but it’s a great premise every year.
- Everyone runs their own Amazon, and Jeff Bezos makes even more money. Take current trends to their extreme, and maybe this is the future.
- Back in September 2004, Yahoo Finance launched their weekend edition. Within a day of the release (as someone else also noted in Jeremy’s comments), the Wall Street Journal announced its own weekend edition. The twist? WSJ was announcing one full year ahead of time. I know you want to build the buzz, and get advertisers on board, etc. But the online time scale vs. the print time scale is… insane. To be sure, Yahoo didn’t come up with their weekend edition overnight, but it couldn’t have been a year. Been meaning to point this out for, oh, about four months.
I send myself a ton of links to note at work, too, but the context isn’t always public, and I don’t want to run into confusion about where to draw the line. After all, you can get fired for blogging. (Note: I’m not concerned. As I’ve written before and I’ll repeat, I am well aware that this is all part of my permanent record. Has to pass the spouse/boss/CEO test. So far, so good!)