Links for 04-10-2008

• The Ships That Cut the Undersea Internet Cables - Cool animation about how undersea cables are repaired.


• A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity - To paraphrase: Individual Web services don't necessarily benefit from being gobbled up by something larger. But it's not clear what the other viable alternatives are.


• Technology Review: Microsoft's Shiny New Toy - The combination of technologies like Photosynth with geotagging could be very interesting.


• Cool Tool: Zamzar - Online document format conversion: I find this sort of thing far less important as time goes on but it crops up every now and then.


• The Volokh Conspiracy - First Amendment and Photography/Writing/Publishing/Book Distribution for Money: - Is wedding photography protected first amendment expression?


• Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "Valley of despair" parts of cycles and all that, some qualitatively different dynamics seem to be going on.