links for 2008-05-15

Cool TED is headed to India in 2009.

This is such a good example of innovative thinking. Using a photo album to present membership cards. Think your gym etc. Very cool

Dina was my guide and has summed up my recent posts on India and changes to communications. Learning about the “China Phone” was simply a blast

Congratulations to Ross Dawson who has just re released his book Living Networks as a web edition. So Ross are you going to “tweet” segments too?

Have you read it? What do you think?

Adding to the Winer Canter discussion re decentralized twitter. Tracking the flow of everything (that’s public) is important. Try Twinkle and it makes more sense when Tweets are linked to GPS positioning.

Marc on Twitter… Should we have all our eggs in one basket? What’s the difference between Twitter and Weblogs.com — in the beginning. I personally want my own twitter engine but I almost have that already. Is not Twitter just a pipe?

At least noted in a few places that the character limitation is the key strength of Twitter. Even when image and video info is linked vial tinyurls.

Thomas Howe writes about the demise of PulverMedia. I think VON really had little to do with the community which has been driven by blogs and meetups. Community is not an event. VON died because exhibitors were not finding customers there and the learning

Andy makes the list of Industry Standard blogs. Congratulations!