Somewhere it was to be expected, nevertheless the way Dave Winer is now completely nuts is pretty rare even for him. I mean, with Rogers Cadenhead he had someone who, despite all his troublemaking (especially around the RSS Advisory Board), tried to make him look somewhat good. Well, that's over now. Dave Winer is just the prototype of an internet sociopath. Shitty Software. Shitty Manners.
Google has acquired SketchUp - a manufacturer of 3D software. This makes you think, especially if you've just been dealing with virtual 3D worlds. Could something like Second Life from Google be on the horizon in the long run? If you look at what multi-user 3D virtual environments need: render farms, disk space, network bandwidth, distributed architecture, delivery of massive amounts of data, user management, chat architecture, accounting system, payment processing - Google already has all of that. And the subscription model could be interesting for Google, as it is similar to the advertising stories.
Horizon - a sketchbook for the Nokia Tablet.
TUD:OS - TU Dresden Operating Systems - a few determined individuals keep the idea of the microkernel alive. Good so!