I found an article online that detailed how Kevin Potts invented, designed, tested and marketed a new product in less than twenty four hours, for an outlay of $150. I found it on his site Make Money Online. The product is called the Magic Article Creator, and you can follow all the steps he took in the article.

Five years ago I had a PIM arrangement that worked as well as I could imagine. I had a Sony Clie TH55 pda, running the Palm operating system, and a desktop computer running Windows. I synchronised the pda with Palm Desktop and my calendar, task list, address book and notes went everywhere with me.

Since then things have gone through several changes, which appeared to finally end when I started running Thunderbird with the Lightning calendar and task list extension installed. Then circumstances changed again, and I realised that this arrangement was now cramped, inefficient, and pointless.

Arcada’s work in Second Life is at a crossroads. I know where we have been, I know where we are going; but I am not sure anymore how we are going to get there. What follows is a set of preliminary reflections based on reading, thinking, practical work in Second Life with Catharina Gröndahl, and a series of long conversations with Lindy McKeown and Steve Bronack.

Here, from the Virtual Jungle blog is a list of alternate open and closed source Second Life clients, compiled by Danton Sideways.

Sugar is now available for download in a form that can autorun on a one gigabyte USB stick. If this sounds like gibberish to you then you should probably know that “The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software.”

Tim O’Reilly talks to Wired magazine, just before the Web 2.0 Expo.