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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?

Bolt Peters’ winning entry to the Explain IA contest.

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 [...]

Jaron Lanier spoke at The RSA on 1 February 2010 to promote his new book You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto. This is essential reading for anyone involved with the online world. It takes a refreshingly honest look at the first generation of web applications and the way the web has evolved. Check out [...]

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).

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 [...]

Very entertaining video of a speech by veteran tech journalist and broadcaster Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and its podcast network, to the Online News Association focussed on business models for new media companies. Synopsis: they need to be targeted at precisely-defined and highly-engaged niche audiences rather than large, loosely-determined, often indifferent [...]