From the Stadium to the Living Room — Is micro-social where it’s at?

This past week, Google unveiled its new application, “Google Wave” which will be released later this year. (To see the presentation of Wave by Google, click below.)

Wave at once makes communication and collaboration easier and makes it more personal.  Think of it as combining the intimacy of e-mail and chat-rooms with the malleability of wikis [...]

Did Dave Eggers create the social web?

Actually, it’s silly to talk about anyone creating the social web.  Ideas get added, mixed, discarded, mutated and something emerges.  However, the social web requires some sort of notion of what identity is, and how it is shared. In his work, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eggers writes about the freedom in sharing who [...]