Bookmarks for 16 Jul 2009
- Kent Police clamp down on tall photographers • The Register
"Kent Police set a new legal precedent last week, as they arrested a photographer on the unusual grounds of "being too tall"." (photography police civil_liberties ) - Curating conversations | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
My colleagues are very cool: "We created a tool in a short space of time which allowed us to curate the stream displayed at The Guardian's Activate Summit last week and the code is now open sourced as we promised at the event." (twitter guardian activate moderation tool ) - FT.com / UK – Telefónica wins Palm Pre contract
"Telefónica will be the exclusive mobile phone network in the UK and three other European countries for the Palm Pre , the handset widely seen as the most significant challenger to Apple's iPhone ." That means O2 in the UK, and before Christmas, apparently. No word on pricing or exact timing, either. (palm_pre o2 palm launch ) - Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Google announce a Linux-based OS for netbooks. Or is it a way of embedding Chrome more effectively onto netbook devices…? "However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be." (google chrome operating_systems netbooks ) - Taking flight: why the iPhone still beats Pre for air travel – Ars Technica
"Because I've now spent lots of quality time with the Pre in airports and on planes (some of them grounded on runways for hours), I can now report with authority on what it's like to travel with Palm's newest phone. What I found is that the Pre is a pretty boring travel companion who tires way too easily." (palm_pre travel )
