My favourite links for the week 6 - 12th December...
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-nexus-s-with-gingerbread.html Always excited to see new Android stuff - Gingerbread looks nice, and a lot seems have been done under the hood, but it's not blown anyone away... The Nexus S also looks great if massively overpriced over here (£150 more than in the States).
Really nice use of a whole bunch of different APIs to make something genuinely useful. Grabs your location, and where you're going to, figures out how long it's going to take and how much you can read and serves up @longreads articles
Clay Shirky (brilliant guy) on Wikileaks - makes some great points, the "we're no better than Burma" thing is great
Cory Doctorow, a great geek author, has put out his new book in electronic formats (mp3 audiobooks and ebooks) for free! Go grab 'em!
I'm pretty sceptical of Kinect hacks to control your computer by waving your hands around - it looks flashy and cool but can you really imagine doing that all day? But this demo is pretty cool, bringing Minority Report to life.
Google also launched Chrome OS this week, a totally web-based OS. I'm interested to see how this goes, but they really need something to take up the slack of traditional OSes until web apps can take over (I see this as inevitable). This Lifehacker article shows off a new system that installs a plugin on your browser that allows you to run full apps through the browser.
I've been looking into some altmetrics stuff recently (measuring and aggregating social commentary around academic articles) and I thought that this tech demo from Springer is interesting. It's a shame that there's no API to pull the data out though...
Brilliantly geeky, and therefore awesome - in a Chrome OS demo video there was a hidden message. These guys figured it out and won a Chromebook for their efforts...
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