Very high quality for a two-minute promo spot, which begs the question: since when did Google, a business built on the leading edge of network effects, need to advertise?
All posts published in November 2009:
Chris Messina on The Death of the URL
Chris Messina has published a passionate and beautifully-illustrated post about the tension between what Jonathan Zittrain describes as generative and tethered net applications, represented by Neo’s Cartesian dilemma. How insidious is the slide towards ease of use inside walled gardens such as Facebook and the iPhone? And how many users truly take the red pill [...]
Google Press Centre Twitter Directory
A useful resource for those at the intersection of Twitter and web tech journalism. And who could belong to one set without also belonging to the other?
Google Wave
It’s now a month since 100,000 of the hottest invites since gmail went out and Google’s new-born made the transition from sandbox cot to dedicated server nursery. So what is Google Wave really all about? First of all, despite the way it was pitched on initial launch, Wave is not simply a replacement for instant [...]
Jeff Jarvis on What Would Google Do? and Journalism 2.0
Is this man gloating too much about the death of print or simply too quick to announce the end of industrial capitalism? Useful interview. Shame about the lousy video player interface design (it’s ten minutes long and no, you can’t control the playhead).
Mozilla Raindrop
An interesting new project from Mozilla, home of the Firefox web browser. Raindrop (another web technology water metaphor) promises to integrate and filter all your personal content streams, from email to twitter, into a single convenient browser window. Raindrop is open-source and extensible via an API, but the project has only reached version 0.1 prototype [...]
The Truth About Twitter
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Martin Redfern filters out the hype around online social media to relay clear signals without all that distorting noise.
