“First Life is a 3D analog world where server-lag doesn’t exist” - join 6 billion users and register at getafirstlife.com! 
…according to the comments on creator Darren Barefoot’s blog, Linden Labs takes the joke with a wink and grants Darren all rights to proceed the parody…big up!
The Ad Generator produces fake advertising by mashing up real-life corporate slogans with (tag-)related flickr-images.
10 things you should know about wordpress 2.1, which should be released later today. the feature I’m mostly looking forward to? AJAX-ified auto-saving of post-drafts (good bye lost posts due to browser-crashes).
Wikipedia - in an attempt to fight spam - adding the nofollow-attribute to all external links has been the major topic of today. Google Blogoscoped introduced (me to) an interesting strategy handling the attribute, which seems way more reasonable: as done before, external links within user-generated comment (comments, wiki-pages…) are initially set to nofollow. however, the attribute is automatically removed after a few days, assuming that the link, since it hasn’t been removed by the moderator (or, in case of Wikipedia, the editing community) is valid and therefor accountable for page-ranking. sounds smart to me…
launched today, WikiSeek is a vertical search-engine indexing only pages within the Wikipedia-domain(s), plus sites which are linked from within Wikipedia-pages (an attempt to minimize spam-results and deliver better results than Wikipedia itself). Search Engine Land thinks it’s poorly implemented.
remember Scrybe, the pretty-much-hyped Flash-based online-calendar/PIM with offline-capabilities, which went into pretty-private beta a few months back? few days ago, the Scrybe-blog announced phase 2 of their beta, mainly adding ThoughtPad, a web-based clipboard-feature. beta-accounts still seem to be kept scarce artificially, and while I received my invitation today, I wasn’t able to complete the sign-up process… 
the on-demand IPTV-venture formerly known as the Venice Project, put down its project-name and is from now on called Joost. however, it’s still Windows-only and remains in private beta.
