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Micro-Blogging: Tumblr documentary

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If you’re looking for a different point of view on micro-blogging – here’s a “documentary” on Tumblr. Users are talking about follower, real life meetings, why they are using etc.

Mostly sarcastic but also asking the the right question: Why do you spend so much time on tools like that – or what is it you’re missing from your life…

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Data-Visualization: Tag Clouds with Wordle

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There are many tools around to create word clouds from text, tag lists etc.

“Wordle” allows you to copy / paste a text fragment into their user interface or link to a del.icio.us user name to use tags from the saved bookmarks. What differentiates Wordle from other tools are the various features to format the resulting word clouds. You can arrange the text layout in different ways (Horizontal / Vertical / mixed / Free flow), select fonts from a list and apply coloring templates for the display. The results are quite impressive and cover a broad spectrum of popular layouts…

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Humor: Help I’m bored

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Another entry to our growing list of “Dada web sites”.

“Help I am bored” provides quick tips and remedies for 16 common situations – from Help – I’m homesick to Help-I feel old and of course Help – I’m bored. Some of the hints are…

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Games: Google Driving Simulator

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Japanese Flash developer Kohring has just released a new version of his 2D driving simulator that uses street maps and satellite images from Google Maps as a playing ground.

While the simulation is still quite simply and does not detect collisions or road boundaries, its definitely a new way to use web 2.0 interfaces. We are looking forward to the first 3D simulation within Google Earth and other virtual world databases.

Preset locations include…

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Firefox Download Worldrecord attempt today

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Don’t forget that it is Firefox download day today – Mozilla’s attempt to get into the Guinness Book of record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.

And expect that it might take some time until you’ll be able to download the new version of Firefox (see below)…

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Internet: Malware with 24h support services

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So called Trojan and Malware kits have been around since quite some time and most of the people working with or on the Internet should by now have realized that the creation of Malware and spying on computers has developed into a full-fledged industry. And half-hearted security on web sites, corporate and private computers provides their share to the continuously growing size of bot networks together with operating systems that could sometimes best be described with the infamous term “unsafe at any speed”.

We’ve seen the first of these Malware kits in the 1990s – then targeted at so called script kids – but since these years of …

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