RIP Google Wave - http://nexle.dk/l/e9z …. Come on @google!!, you should have kept pushing through with Wave – such a bold vision. Of course it was early days – maybe most people didn’t quite value or understand the potential yet?.. At least some(/all?) of it is open source but we needed a giant to push it through. [...]
Some thoughts on where the social web and technology trends are really leading us.. I think the impact will be more profound and sudden than we could ever imainge… //
got invite from nice ppl @silentale – that site did not do it for me. Search=useful but site did not bring all info together like I hoped. //
http://tinyurl.com/68e8zq //
A moderately interesting (but admittedly too long and slightly boring in spots) interview with Netscape founder and VC Marc Andreessen. Topics are around social networks (including FaceBook, Ning, Google, LinkedIn etc.), the newspaper business (having a go at the NY Times in relation to future of the print edition), his new investment fund, historic tech [...]
…and free! Looks interesting and the demo page is nice to try; http://bubbl.us //
Following is an interesting video which takes a critical view on Web 2.0s impact on society – Wikipedia is the main topic. There is good discussions from both sides. Video is rather long (45mins) but reasonably interesting. //
Not sure when it happened but Google launched a new beta version of its Google Maps for Mobiles with a feature “My Location”. This feature allows you to see your approximate location on a map via a mobile phone without using GPS. It calculates your location based on the nearest phone towers. Its nothing new [...]
As we know Google are very good at making people work for them for free and they’ve done it again. You can now create your “own” search engine searching only your topics of interest and with your look and feel and even “tags”/filters.. I created one to test it and it searches Java resources… my [...]
CitySearch, Australias second largest entertainment portal, which I spent a long time being the architect for, has finally launched. Go to CitySearch //
Buzz in Sydney and Australia