Links for 2007-12-20

In Links on 20 December 2007 with no comments

• Hashtags
  A service tracking Twitter hash tags. I’ve never been a fan of these, mainly because they make for poorly readable tweets, but this still is an interesting step towards better explicit metadata on Twitter. (Still not sure we actually need it though.)
  (tags: hashtags twitter metadata tweets microblogging)
• The Ludologist » Blog Archive » Poker: Game of Skill or Game of Chance?
  “Games can have any amount of skill and chance at the same time, but you cannot imagine a game with neither skill nor chance, as that would mean the outcome was always the same and hence it would not be a game in any meaningful sense.”
  (tags: alea agon skill chance games play contest gambling)
• Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.
  Can hardly believe the quality of this little app. Free screen-grabbing and online storage. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time.
  (tags: visual capture grab videos images upload share screens)

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