Links for Sunday, November 19, 2006
- The Freedom of Fast Iterations: How Netflix Designs a Winning Web Site – “*Quickly iterating helps reduce risk during design. If teams can make many small changes instead of a few larger ones, they mitigate risk because they know which changes have what effect. *“
- Nelson Minar: Why SOAP Sucks – “As someone who bears some past responsibility for well used SOAP services (Google’s APIs for search and AdWords) let me say now I’d never choose to use SOAP and WSDL again. I was wrong.“
- TheKONSTRUCT: Welcome to a Different Type of SL Magazine – “We start with a very simple assumption – that SecondLife is far more than a game. Rather it is a social construct, a new way for people to live and communicate, a drastically different environment to have fun , romance and make yourself known.“
- Doc Searls: Ten Ideas About Ideas – “Ideas grow by participation, not isolation.“
- Greater IBM: Welcome to the Frontier! – “As part of his preparation for the event, the builder investigates how to use a more sophisticated way of videoing the event, and finds a tool in SL, which costs the huge sum of $0.70! He enlists the help of a colleague who figures it out, makes a short film of the Bloc Party which they edit and post on YouTube. It gets hundreds of viewings and is used by IBMs Media Relations group“
- YouTube: The Greater IBM Connection in Second Life – The video mentioned in the Greater IBM blog!
- CNET: 10 Best Extensions for Firefox 2.