Linked List: May 5, 2006

Friday, 5 May 2006

IndieKarma ★: Kottke on IndieKarma, a new one-cent-per-visit micropayments system.
Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry ★: DreamHost Blog exposé on the pay-for-play practices of web-hosting review sites:

Phoney baloney sites like hosting-review.com are skidmarks on the underpants of the hosting industry and we want to expose them for what they are — totally biased money-making fronts. They may all swear up and down that they provide a helpful and fair service, but when you’re getting kickbacks from every single company that you recommend it’s hard to take that claim sitting down.
David Pogue Reviews the Samsung Ultra Mobile PC ★: Remember that “Origami” gadget Microsoft was teasing about a few months ago? They’re out now. And Pogue pretty much skewers them:

Stylus, cursor-control nubbin, two on-screen keyboards, handwriting recognition, mouse-click button combinations — what a lot of workarounds! And how unnecessary; the mouse and keyboard solved the problems of text input and cursor control decades ago. It’s as though Microsoft invented a car with an opaque windshield — and then devised camera and periscope attachments so you can see where you’re going.
The Rip-Off Express ★: Delightful gallery of sites that have ripped off icons (usually the Transmit truck) and other graphic elements from Panic. IP theft has never been so funny.