links for 2007-09-20

• Adrants » Google Grabs Ogilvy Exec, Sets Up Agency-Like Business Unit
  it appears Google may be poised to shake things up once again.
  (tags: agency google maketeting)
• 25 years ago, professor posted a smiley emoticon for the first time | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
  Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis
  (tags: language function digital)
• Smiley Lore
  Yes, I am the inventor of the sideways “smiley face” (sometimes called an “emoticon”) that is commonly used in E-mail, chat, and newsgroup posts. Or at least I’m one of the inventors.
  (tags: internet history smiley culture language digital emotion)
• wiki.dbpedia.org : About
  DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
  (tags: ai api collaboration community databases dbpedia semantic semanticweb wikipedia database rdf wiki)
• Broadband speeds by country 2007
  And why Torrents aint Big in Tokyo.
  (tags: broadband chart comparison statistics bandwidth internet)
• Broadcasting – News – ITV let off for ‘inappropriate’ poster – Digital Spy
  “I would do anything for my best friend, including his wife.”
  (tags: itv media poster inappropiate)
• Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Open letter to Mark Zukerberg
  But as David Recordan warned you – what happens when Google starts gunning for you and they go that extra 1% or 2% of the way – that you haven’t gone?
  (tags: facebook)