Links for May 2nd through May 6th
May 6th, 2008These are a few sites I thought were interesting from May 2nd through May 6th:
- Signing Off, And What Does A TechCrunch Writer Actually Use? - Great collection of tool recommendations. I agree with most of Duncan’s suggestions, though I haven’t tried Evernote, Things, or Skitch — but I will, now
- Webby Award Winners - Wired.com wins a Webby for “Best Copy/Writing”
- Microsoft?s Shopping List - Sramana Mitra on Strategy - Some interesting suggestions about what Microsoft should acquire instead of Yahoo: LinkedIn, Shutterfly, Kayak, Hi5 and a few others. Total bill: $6 billion according to this guy’s estimates.
- WordPress ? Support » RSS widget and Google reader shared items - WP 2.5’s RSS widget does not work with RSS feeds from Google reader. This workaround requires modifying WP’s base code, unfortunately
- Marc?s Voice » Blog Archive » Decentralized Twitter’s time has come - People are upset about Twitter outages. So they want a decentralized, DNS-like replacement. My question: Do you really care about Twitter that much?
- A personalized preview of Grand Theft Auto IV, the big video game of 2008 » VentureBeat - Dean Takahashi’s thoughtful first impressions of GTA IV. Nicely done preview of a game that’s sure to be controversial
- How the Brain Learns to Read - Science Journal - WSJ.com - The brain works very differently when reading different writing systems, eg. Latin alphabet vs Chinese characters