links for 2007-08-28

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!

The next Adobe Flash player will support H.264! Bring on the high-quality YouTubery! 😉

Light-weight but interesting profile of the three guys behind The Pirate Bay, the web’s #1 stop for illegal bittorrent files! [Via]

“… 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.”

“Education Minister Mark McGowan will introduce new guidelines to ban the use of mobile phones in Western Australian classrooms.”

“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.”