Very interesting collection of posts - the year end summary sparked my interest to dig back to earlier posts including the one on June 25, 2009 titled Hyperconnectivity: The Power of Sharing. It has 2 videos, one from Mark Pesce - worth the watch.
The FTC/FCC are looking into cloud computing and consumer privacy protection. Their findings could pose to be a game-changer for cloud computing and the collaborative web.
From the 1/12 edition of the NY Times.
"Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist - he popularized the term "virtual reality" - wonders if the Web's structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, "You Are Not a Gadget," is a manifesto against "hive thinking" and "digital Maoism," by which he means the glorification of open-source software, free information and collective work at the expense of individual creativity."