Today’s favorites / R-Echos
Cross-linking today’s favourites articles, best reading and most interesting thing i came across on http://r-echos.net
Art Walk is all about getting your art addiction fed by being sensible to nice and daily intervention in the streets.
Adventures in stacking relates an article in New Scientist about structural experiments; it has some nice diagrams and schemas - it also mentions the London’s P&O Building geting demolished in reverse, which is nearby a route that i took sometimes and let me wondering about the purpose of this building.
Apple and Google are going telecom on Slahdot sounds like these new turns for bot company are full of potentials: new application for webservices embed on mobile device are rolling all around.
The start of YouTube - relates how it was for Jawed Karim to start YouTube.
It is nice to read
YouTube is a natural extension of other social sites like LiveJournal, Friendster, HotOrNot, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Flickr and its success was possible because it was launched at the right time, when people started to have broadband and digital cameras.
This article is about Quantity versus Quality - Google Search Book; it is a nice peek at how Google is doing to scan each and every book they provide for their book search service: by hand! While some libraries are installing Robotic Book Storage System it costed $12 million and removed the full shelves from being accessed by human’s hands.
No Wifi made me think of 2 articles:
- A possible future without net neutrality
- Commercial Architecture for Airwave
Homepage is a nice new project by Pierre who plan to archive his homepages.