Friday round-up
by the editorial team
Welcome to Friday, our favorite day of the week. And here’s our handful of recent news we couldn’t resist sharing, to send you on your way into the weekend:
- Don’t miss the New York Times piece on the passing of Gary Gygax (The flowchart is what really makes the article. We want the poster. Badly.)
- The One Laptop is making waves in the Philippines.
- Microsoft finally relents–IE8 will use web standards (like the rest of the world’s broswers, about time!)
- Rumors have been flying around the virtual world for weeks that Linden Labs CEO Phillip Rosedale would soon resign, and today’s Second Life newswire confirmed it. There was no comment on associated rumors of an eventual IPO for the social networking/gaming platform.
- And so far, NIN’s open release of their latest work is being considered a success, insofar as $1.6 million in profit is considered successful. Considering the cost to release through the digital channel was $38? Not bad. Not bad at all.
Charles Chen has been in meetings with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to evaluate the XO, and comments:
“This is to inform all the members of OLPC PH that I had met two weeks ago with the officials of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), the country’s largest NGO in working in partnership in establishing an OLPC pilot to be done with the primary school level of the Don Bosco Technical College in Mandaluyong.”
“PBSP can support OLPC PH by developing the needed governance practices we need to implement this program. At the moment, PBSP is currently evaluating the project requirements of this pilot as well as the possible use of the XO for its own educational program. Their program initially aims to provide about 20,000 laptops and will be a big boost to OLPC PH if they find XO suitable for their needs.”