Daily Links: (19.05.2010)

• Selfridges debuts first-ever augmented reality window display
• GQ sells 365 copies of its Apple iPad — or $1,091 in sales
• Twitter Outed its Official Twitter app for iPhone | Gadgets DNA
• Facebook launches free mobile access site for emerging markets... and Denmark
• [White Paper] - Recognition of Sarcastic Sentences in Online Product Reviews

Selfridges debuts first-ever augmented reality window display Really innovative way to utilize AR in outdoor, but its a shame we can't do the same without passing out paper place holders which limit the times it can be used. I know the webcam needs something to map against, but hopefully in the future.

GQ sells 365 copies of its Apple iPad — or $1,091 in sales Posted: 19 May 2010 02:34 AM PDT Compared to WSJ's 64,000 downloads, its looking like free is the initial way into the iPad. I guess everyone needs to hold off on the 'saved publishing' tag for the device until the kinks are worked out.

Twitter Outed its Official Twitter app for iPhone | Gadgets DNA The announcement that Twitter was dedicated to making its own external apps had to be a pretty worrying one to application developers. The services they've made helped Twitter expand its audience over the last two years, but with <45% of the users utilizing a 3rd party client (probably more, but thats the figure we had from UK research last year), it was only a matter of time before it turned its sights on development. Now, the strategy is coming to bear with Twitter rebranding 'Tweetie' for the iPhone and rumors of a URL shortener and other clients in the works. It looks like developers are facing a choice between acquisition (best case) or obsolescence

Facebook launches free mobile access site for emerging markets... and Denmark Facebook's 0.Facebook.com 'text-only' version of their network is intriguing, but puzzling at the same time. Limiting network content to status updates and text may allow you to offer a no carrier charge option, but it basically reduces the content offering to sub-Twitter levels. This may work in very developing markets, but I'm puzzled that its being pushed so hard in the UK and others.

[White Paper] - Recognition of Sarcastic Sentences in Online Product Reviews I was going into reading this as pretty skeptical, given my normal position on automated sentiment analysis, but it seems that by skimming down the various emotional aspects that one would look for, it may be onto something. I'd love to see this expanded into a spectrum of sarcasm that could be applied to snippets of conversation like Twitter...or would I?