• Replacing World Landmarks With Cheap Souvenirs (21 photos) – My Modern Metropolis
  Very cool – a different perspective one might say.
  (tags: travel funny humour culture photos photography illusion)
• Social Web Q&A with Google’s Kevin Marks
  (tags: google socialmedia opensocial friendconnect socialnetworking oauth kevinmarks openID contacts)
• Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Dashboards and Distributed Friending
  (tags: marccanter distributed DiSO socialnetworks dataportability)

• Travel Time Tube Map (Built with Processing)
  wonderful! thanks, Carrie.
  (tags: tools travel london UK visualization interactive)
• Android: Unlocked Developer G1 Banned From Accessing Paid Apps
  (tags: google android market open piracy)

• Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing.
  (tags: web2.0 tools design software application image screencapture skitch graphics)

• Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing.
  (tags: web2.0 tools design software application image screencapture skitch graphics)
• Google Announces Pricing for App Engine: Allows Developers to Scale Beyond Free Quotas – ReadWriteWeb
  (tags: google cloud computing infrastructure SaaS googleappengine amazon)
• Why Social Networks Are Good for the Kids
  (tags: socialnetworks psychology techcrunch children facebook web2.0 stupid identity paper)
• Close-up: How Twitter allows direct access to consumers – Campaign Magazine Features – Campaign Magazine
  same old same old, follow the trail – digital, online, websites, blogs, social networks, twitter, blah blah. but nothing changes.
  (tags: twitter jnj brands advertising marketing campaign)
• Andreessen on Charlie Rose: “I Am Creating A Fund.” (Full Video)
  probably worth watching for those who believe social networks are the future. Obivously not me then. strange how Andreessen seems to believe that they are here to stay and nowhere near their potential. Social networking as such, between humans, is definitely the future, but the socnet platforms? I hope not! Give me distributed networks and user-driven tools to build them.
  (tags: business google facebook internet VC andreessen trends interview socialnetworks platforms)
• Ginx: What are you doing?
  (tags: web2.0 tools socialmedia twitter mashup sharing microblogging ginx)
• Google's Atlantis Discovery Explained – PC World
  so it's sonar mapping, not Atlantis. sounds more likely.
  (tags: history googleearth atlantis maps ocean)
• Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa? – Telegraph
  Fascinating. wonder what it is…
  (tags: googleearth history discovery maps earth atlantis ocean)
• A load of Twitter – Times Online
  this is bad, really bad, in terms of report and science, which is appallingly off the mark. social web is about ability to drive your own identity, rather than settle for the one defined by third parties, invariably authorities. that's why people like Oliver James attack it as being 'weak identity' – it's the opposite, a different kind of identity entirely and one that threatens their little worlds.
  (tags: identity twitter times socialnetworks microblogging psychology stupid fail paper)

• George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946
  excellent advice! need to follow it
  (tags: language writing ideas English culture interesting orwell politics tips)
• Inside every chief exec, there's a Soviet planner | Business | The Observer
  "With exquisite irony, while central planning had been largely discredited at macroeconomic level, at microeconomic level it remained alive and kicking – in their own organisations." Agree with the article from this point onward, before that it's just the usual drivel about capitalism and related matters.
  (tags: business management control economy failure organisations hierarchy capitalism)

Another in the series of VRM Hub events, an open space event is planned for 30th March, registration opened here.

Here is the page for the event itself.

See you there!

• Ubuntu now has 'cloud computing inside' | The Wisdom of Clouds – CNET News
  (tags: cloud computing ubuntu webservices cloudcomputing opensource)

• Update: Facebook Agrees To Take Down Dead Relative's Page
  (tags: facebook death data virtual life privacy family)
• Facebook: Facebook Won't Let You Remove Dead Relative's Page, Per "Policy"
  another conflict resulting from the platform strangness.
  (tags: privacy facebook death)

• Facebook’s Terms of Service Assplode Adventure
  absolutely! that is why I militate against platform that are in effect silos for our stuff. sharing is good, but there is difference between my FRIENDS having a copy of message or photos we exchange and FACEBOOK having it for perpetuity. This highlights the problem with 3rd parties as silos.
  (tags: facebook mydata friends silos platform thirdparty)

• Six ways to make Web 2.0 work – The McKinsey Quarterly – Six ways Web 2.0 work – Business Technology – Application Management
  this is suprisingly good article on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, given that I have given up on McKinsey ever getting this, what with their obsession with processes and ROI models.
  (tags: mckinsey web2.0 business trends innovation enterprise2.0 change)
• The Agreeable Cat by Anne Loucks
  (tags: funny software legal geek cats hacks eula animals agreement)

• News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference | TorrentFreak
  fascinating!
  (tags: p2p piratebay filesharing torrentfreak bittorrent distributed network media politics sweden)
• Still Titled – VRM & CRM – There's no argument there
  good deconstruction of the strawman argument by Graham Hill against VRM. Rather silly question at the end about wheather VRM makes money. Frankly, I don't give a damn. If the same question mattered with regard to the internet/web/blogging etc etc, we wouldn't be here discussing VRM in the first place.
  (tags: VRM CRM businessmodel money)
• Never get out of the boat: mighty putty – learning to speak human
  cute
  (tags: advertising funny video)

• Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers « Clay Shirky
  We’re not customers and we’re certainly not consumers. We’re users. We don’t consume content, we use it, and mostly what we use it for is to support our conversations with one another, because we’re media outlets now too.
  (tags: web2.0 media online journalism future clayshirky micropayments publishing)