Around the web – April 5, 2008

Here are some links from around the web that I chanced upon this week

Linkfest

• Review Board for code reviews (via O’Reilly Radar)
• Anna rants about software for scientists on the JoVe blog
• IBM’s really serious about virtual worlds
• Scalr is really really cool. Read more on the AWS blog
• Rails is moving from SVN to Git
• Casio EX-F1 camera takes 60 photos a second
• Star P On-demand supercomputing for scientists and engineers (need to look into this more)

Multimedia

• Merb – an alternate web framework for Ruby
• Scoble interviews Ben Segal
• Matthew Shanahan from Teranode on the Semantic Web

Blogspotting

• Interactive Supercomputing

Events

• Freebase User Group Meeting on April 16th
• 2008 iGEM competition

Self Assembly

• After much flip-flopping I have given in and adopted Disqus as the commenting system. It breaks the WP commenting system, but that was just me being a control freak. With Friendfeed supporting Disqus, it does add some value there as well. No one was using the Viddler video anyway, one of the main reasons I had resisted. Here is the Disqus page for bbgm
• Going to Bio-IT World? Drop me a line if you are and we can try and meet (it’s going to be hectic).
• Ever wondered how I keep track of all the services I use … I keep a mindmap