links for 2008-05-18

• GTA IV about urbanism » Pasta&Vinegar
  "Anyone interested in the relationship between technologies and contemporary cities followed the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. Tom Bramwell from Eurogamer recently interviewed Aaron Garbut from Rockstar."
  (tags: gtaiv cities games)
• Brand Tags
  "The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is". Captures the word you first associate with a brand when exposed to their logo.
  (tags: branding marketing)
• Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web - blog.pmarca.com
  "You don't get lots of flow into anything on the web without having lots of flow out to the broader web. You are compromising your own product to your self-inflicted detriment if you're not making it easy for activity to flow out as well as in."
  (tags: ning google friendconnect)
• Installing Linux on an elderly laptop - Bods's Blog | Planet Bods
  Andrew B inadvertantly illustrates exactly why I haven't found the time or confidence yet to put a working Linux install on my knackered old laptop.
  (tags: linux laptop)
• 27 Resources for Evaluating Blogging ROI - KoMarketing Associates
  'Resources' in the title implied to me that this was going to link to some Excel spreadsheet wizardry, but actually it links out to 27 other articles. Useful list though, with some interesting pullquotes.
  (tags: blogging roi business marketing)
• Realtime Twitter Sentiment - Summize Labs
  Analyses tweets and then grades attitude from 'great' to 'wretched'.
  (tags: search twitter sentiment tools summize)
• Perceptive Pixel: Update | Data Mining
  Has examples of US TV using touch-screen info-matic-o-gram devices during political coverage.
  (tags: touchscreen interface television uselection)

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