Articles of Note: March 2010

Just wanted to make sure March 2010 has not passed us by without noticing some of these:

• An amazing 26-gigapixel panoramic view of Paris #;

• ChatRoulette virals – #1 #2 and #3 featuring Ben Folds;

• Nokia tells us that Internet browsing on our mobiles is highly eco-friendly #;

• On March 21st the world celebrated 4 years since the first tweet #;

• Google.cn is history #;

• The Folding Plug wins Brit Insurance Design Awards (via the Guardian) #;

• Steve Jobs innovates a new channel for marketing delivery through personal e-mail replies #

• MoMA acquires the @ symbol. At least, symbolically #

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Articles of Note: January-February 2010

• Charles Leadbeater talks about the threats behind cloud computing by analyzing the position of profit-seeking companies in their attempts at centralizing the Internet #;

• Brand new presentation by chef-superstar Jamie Oliver at TED 2010 #;

• Facebook brings into discussion something about a fully-fledged webmail service able to compete with the big names, dubbed as Project Titan;

• Curious to find out which of the movies nominated for this year’s Oscars were most pirated? #; Read the rest of this entry »