hyperlative.com | signal vs. noise in distributed media

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?

In the beginning we surfed the web but now a tsunami of crowd-sourced content threatens to overwhelm our craft. Should we plunge headlong into the waves and hope to remain bouyant in the social media storm or head for maven haven on the mountain top? The web is awash with water metaphors, from streaming video [...]

Very interesting in-depth interview with Eric Schmidt by Danny Sullivan.

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?

A partisan but pretty polemic comparing the search giant’s apparently insatiable monopolistic drives to those of a well-known authoritarian despot. Hosted on whose servers for free?

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 [...]

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).

Kevin Marks delivering reliably essential insight at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York last Autumn. See also How Twitter Works In Theory and the subsequent Twitter Thoery Applied To Google Buzz for more about Flow, Faces, Phatic, Following, Publics, Mutual Media and Small World Networks.