Sunday March 08, 2009 Weekend Link Roundup, Sunday March 8th
- B-Live Share and Groove Armada
Clever viral marketing campaign rewards you with free music if you recruit your friends to Bacardi's marketing site. Yes, that link is indeed trying to recruit you, but at least you get a free Groove Armada track until midnight tonight :-) If the financial markets can do Ponzi schemes why not the music market? - Sydney software dev faces lawsuit for iPhone app
"Developers who write useful applications with government data should get awards not lawsuits." - Open the Path - free filesystems?
"After spending some time ensuring open standards for our documents, do we need to start paying attention to filesystems. the question is what should government do, if anything at all." (Aslam works for the South African government) - Economist calculates optimum term of copyright: 14 years!
An old link but it remains vibrantly relevant. It seems the case that copyright has been extended far beyond what would be justified by its benefit to society is clearly demonstrated here. We are long overdue for a reset, and the arrival of the internet is the perfect opportunity to realign the social contract behind copyright. - Fight against terror 'spells end of privacy'
I wonder if anyone in our establishment in the UK has actually seen "V for Vendetta" or read "1984" as anything but a guide-book? - Brian Kahin: Microsoft Roils the World with FAT Patents
Much to agree with in this hard-hitting piece. No matter how it's dressed, this is about chilling the use of Linux in embedded applications.
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( Mar 08 2009, 03:34:00 AM PDT )
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Twilight Zone
Just a reminder to everyone I have calls with that Summer Time (Daylight Savings) starts in Europe on the last Sunday of March and not today like it did in the USA. That means we're in for a freaky month of people missing conference calls because they didn't check the world clock (or at least claiming that's the reason). In particular, the OpenSolaris elections fall squarely into the twilight zone and candidates and voters need to watch out for unexpected deadlines.
This is also the month to complain to the provider of your electronic calendar solution that they don't have time-zone support where you can specify the meeting timezone with the meeting (unless you are in the luck position that they do, of course!) Without that rather basic feature, it's impossible to automatically adjust meetings that fall into the twilight zone so they show the correct time. So if you're looking for someone to blame, looks like (say) Google is in the frame...
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( Mar 08 2009, 03:15:00 AM PDT )
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