Google Wave
I went through the whole 1hr 20min video. Very cool! I think this is a game changing collaboration tool!

Social and Real-time Search
Interesting article on John Battelle's Searchblog describing how Social Networking sites are creeping up on Google as a key source of traffic. I guess Search Engine Marketing will be followed by Social Marketing.

Also, I feel that Search Engines are bound to become more real-time (a good article on the topic). Searching Twitter already gives you a better information on current events. This morning Yahoo mail was down and I searched "Yahoo Mail" on Google - no information on a current issue! I searched on Twitter and found that it was down and the first tweet on the topic was about 1 hour old. So, the issue was not just with my mailbox and I decided to wait.

In my mind, Google should acquire Twitter!

TweetGrid: New tool to follow Twitter
Here is my grid on the tool. Reminds me of netvibes (my public pages).

Artists Twitter
Just came across this article on Mashable with 10 tips on how artists can use Twitter. I am still trying to understand how best to use twitter. I know there is a use for it without generating a ton of useless posts.

Twitter
Yes, I have succumbed and started Twittering. Have added a widget with my Twitter feed on the sidebar. One of the main reasons I blog is to keep notes on interesting technology I come across that I can go back and search. However, I loose that ability with Twitter. I am not sure how much I will use it.

Social Networking - Powerful in Politics
Came across this MIT Tech Review article on how the Obama Campaign is using Social Networking to get the message out. V cool!

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
Have worked my way though this very engaging book over the past couple of weeks. Here is how Clay describes his book on his blog:

Here Comes Everybody is about what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures.

In a very well thought out and nicely presented work, Clay describes the evolution of personal (one to few and few to few) and broadcast (one to many) communications to the same platform - the web. He explains why, I, a blogger with an audience of hundreds and with an ability to respond to every interaction from my readers, am different from GigaOM and TechCrunch, modern day tech news publishers. The technology infrastructure for us to publish is, essentially, close to free and the audience geographically dispersed and infinitely scalable.

Anonymous blogging gone bad
Interesting article on Business Week on how it ended for a Cisco Lawyer blogging anonymously about Patent Trolling. I believe that you should always attach your name to whatever you post on the web. There is no privacy on the web!