links for 2007-05-07

• DevilDucky – Introducing the Book
  A comedy about medieval tech support, learning how to use a book.
  (tags: book development funny geek technology support tech)
• Home Beta screen shots – PS3 Network – Playstation 3 Forums
  pics of PS3 Home Beta
  (tags: ps3 home)
• Cobb-Douglas production function, – Google Search
  In economics, the Cobb-Douglas functional form of production functions is widely used to represent the relationship of an output to inputs. It was proposed by Knut Wicksell (1851-1926), and tested e by Paul Douglas and Charles Cobb in 1928.
  (tags: economics businessmodel process business)
• NewTeeVee » Ten P2P Devices You Never Saw Coming
  Some implementations are pretty obvious, others might surprise you.
  (tags: p2p hacks)
• Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: FeedBurner and Google Reader
  The solution to computing and tracking ‘influence’ requires a complex of many signals which may contain redundancy of a kind but which will be more robust to failures of this type.
  (tags: socialcommerce roi)
• quakr
  homegrown flickr flash based 3d photo mapping. Not quite photosynth, but nice effort.
  (tags: 3d api cool flash flickr photography photos)
• New AACS cracks cannot be revoked, says hacker
  Simplified high-def decryption diagram, courtesy of arnezami.”Kvu” is the volume license key.
  (tags: article business copyright crypto development drm encryption security aacs)
• latte art – a photoset on Flickr
  OMG. The art of the barista captured in glorious natural sepia tones.
  (tags: art coffee photography)
• The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers -
  I’m considering getting glasses.
  (tags: culture geek relationships wired)
• Wikipedia API | Ubiquitous knowledge processing
  The high-performance Java-based Wikipedia-API provides structured access to information nuggets like redirects, categories, articles and link structure. It is described in the GLDV 2007 paper.
  (tags: wikipedia api)
• Technical Report on Wikipedia API available | Ubiquitous knowledge processing
  A technical report on the Wikipedia API is now available.
  (tags: api wikipedia)
• Wikipedia usage part 3 / long tail of production / further thoughts at fresh + new
  Nicholas Carr’s post last week about participation rates in Wikipedia has set some ripples in motion across the Web 2.0 blogosphere.
  (tags: wikipedia production semantic broadcasting)