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links for 2007-08-28

• Anystream Apreso Acquires Lectopia from the University of Western Australia; Forms Echo360, Inc. [Press Release]
  Lectopia, the enterprise-level presentation capture and delivery system developed at the University of Western Australia (formerly know as iLecture) has been purchased by Anystream Apreso. Sad to see it go, but good luck to the Lectopia team!
  (tags: lectopia ilecture uwa)
• HDTV Quality Web Video Reaches the Masses with Industry Standard Video Codec in Flash Player [Adobe - Adobe Press Room]
  The next Adobe Flash player will support H.264! Bring on the high-quality YouTubery!
  (tags: flash codec youtube)
• Bobbie Johnson interviews the Pirate Bay [Technology | Guardian Unlimited]
  Light-weight but interesting profile of the three guys behind The Pirate Bay, the web's #1 stop for illegal bittorrent files! [Via]
  (tags: p2p piracy ethics)
• IBM faces Second Life strike [The Register]
  "... IBM's 9,000 workers in Italy, is planning a most novel form of industrial action – a strike on Second Life – and it wants as many avatars as possible manning the picket lines."
  (tags: secondlife web2.0 legal)
• Education Minister Mark McGowan bans mobiles in class [PerthNow]
  "Education Minister Mark McGowan will introduce new guidelines to ban the use of mobile phones in Western Australian classrooms."
  (tags: wa mobilephone cameraphone ethics elearning studentengagement)
• Daleks bid to make world record [BBC NEWS | England]
  "A bid to create a new world record and have the biggest number of people dressed up as daleks in one location has taken place in Manchester."
  (tags: drwho)