Week 08-02 del.icio.us links January 07, 2008

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Intel and OLPC Partnership Ends – DevelopmentCrossing.Com

   It was only a few months ago (last July in fact), that Intel and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) joined forces. Unfortunately, last week saw the partnership come to end, with Intel withdrawing from the arrangement. Or were they kicked out?

2. Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown. – TechCrunch.Com

   Wikia Search is not so good – “First of all, it’s barely a search engine at all. It’s based on the open source Nutch software and contains an index of web pages created by Grub (a company Wikia acquired last year).”

3. Matsushita to introduce 150-inch plasma television – Yomiuri.Co.Jp

   Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. has developed a 150-inch plasma display TV panel–the world’s largest, according to sources. Matsushita, which is best known for its Panasonic brand, will introduce a prototype at CES.

4. YouTorrent reaches 150,000 searches / day within 3 days of launch – YouTorrent.Com

   Dear users, Firstly we would like to thank you all for the kind words we have received by email. Much to our amazement, the YouTorrent site has already surpassed 50,000 unique visitors daily and 150,000 searches!

10 more articles after the Jump

1. Wikia Wants to Shake Up Search

   Jimmy Wales, co-founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, knows his new Web-search tool won’t come close to reaching Google’s (GOOG) market share any time soon. But he’s got what may be an even grander agenda.

2. The Magpie Developer – CodingHorror.Com

   software developers were akin to Magpies: birds who are notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart but are too easily distracted by shiny new toys.

3. Touch Your Self Help: On Resolutions – TheSimon.Com

   It just feels better to “go big” on resolutions. Inside, we all know that we’ll be back to half-assing in less than a week, so why not be happy now imagining that once the clock strikes midnight, everything will change?

4. African pole dancer – noob.us

   How does he do this?

5. How Techmeme Homepage Changes Over Time – Video – Labnol.Org

   This Techmeme video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme activity and replays it in 50 seconds. So you get a good idea about how the Techmeme homepage changes over a period of time.

6. Smuggling of Radioactive Materials Rampant – LittleGreenFootballs.Com

   In a troubling disclosure, the Russian Federal Customs Service has revealed that authorities thwarted more than 850 attempts to smuggle highly radioactive materials in and out of Russia in 2007. 85 percent going into the country.

7. Will OLPC be the TiVo of PCs for emerging markets? – Crave.CNet.Com

   With the dust-up this week about Intel leaving the fold of OLPC, it got me to thinking: Will One Laptop Per Child become the TiVo of PCs for emerging markets? TiVo of course almost single-handidly created the DVR category and market.

8. Anyone Can Share Torrents – VIPeers.Com

   TorrentFreak just released this article entitled: How To Share Torrents With BitTorrent Illiterates. You know, we created Podmailing to enable anyone to share files of any size – and especially illiterates. Even if it’s several GBs.

9. The world’s biggest ever building by Foster + Partners – dezeen.Com

   Foster + Partners have released designs for the biggest building ever built: Crystal Island in Moscow will be 450m high, cover an area of almost half a million square metres and contain a total floor area of 2.5 million square metres.

10. The Eclectic Designer of Dubai – MetroPolisMag.Com

    After earning degrees in interior design and architecture from Kingston University and Manchester Metropolitan University, Paul Bishop moved to Dubai in 1996 to put his training to use. The Briton has spent 10 of the last 11 years in the emirate

11. Habitat’s Eco Homes In The Stuy – reclaimedhome.com

    Nine new affordable condos in Bed Stuy are complete now. Each owner contributed 300 hours of labor with help from 4,000 skilled volunteers. Habitat hired a professional contractor for the exterior, core and shell of the buildings.

12. Eden Bio by Edouard Francois – dezeen.Com

    Here are a couple of images of Eden Bio by French architect Edouard Francois, a social housing development in Paris set in organic gardens. Due for completion early 2008, features terraced houses, heavy landscaped with trees and plants.

13. Sun Table Solar Generator – reclaimedhome.com

    The Sun Table, an outdoor table that stores solar energy and powers electrical devices. The product “that pushes people to spend more time outdoors will be beneficial for humanity.” It runs a laptop for over 3 hours or a TV for 3 to 4 hours.

14. Reclaimed Lumber: Information Overload – reclaimedhome.com

    Cunningham Lumber. They have reclaimed lumber as well as salvage, all at good price points. Ok, so they’re located in Texas. A long list of links. Too many to sort through

15. TranslucentConcrete by Andreas Bittis – dezeen.Com

    TranslucentConcrete is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete. Thousands of fibres run side by side transmitting light between the two surfaces of each element. The fibres blend into concrete like small pieces of ballast.

16. Proof of OLPC concept in a Peruvian village – SmartMobs.Com

    Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the OLPC project 6 months ago.