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"The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes."

Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O.

"There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media." Nice post on viewing Google Wave from a productivity perspective.

CNet review of Google Wave.

Conversation by CNet editors on the features and process of using Google Wave.

danah on Google, orkut and social media

"Clay Shirky visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, "Here Comes Everybody." This event took place on March 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series."

Google site w/ good overview of Diigo, uses in education, suggestions for use of Diigo in student learning.

Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century.

demo of orkut.

discussion group for Friendfeed issues

NYTimes on Google's OpenSocial

Article on the different strategies of Google v. Facebook and the different strategies of mining biographical and other user data as practiced by the two companies. From Wired.

Shirky speaks at Google on his book, Cognitive Surplus, and answers some interesting questions after the talk. It is mostly the same material as the TED talk, but more of it, with more details and examples and diagrams.

A great case study of why many of those sites that claim to measure your popularity are meaningless.

AP movie review of "The Social Network" movie.

Transcript of danah boyd's keynote speech at 2010 SXSW on common themes in privacy and "being public" in social media.