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"the release of the iPad might be the cannonball into the consumer device pool the iPhone dipped its toes in. It’s also been referred to as a thing that sits between that iPhone and your laptop. I see it as more of a fork in the road. It’s the thing many people will get INSTEAD of a laptop. The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing. It’s the payoff to all the work done by multiple industries over the last 20–30 years. It’s the subtraction of 20lbs of textbooks in my son’s backpack, and the device I finally feel comfortable buying my parents."

"Google has this somewhat head-achey culture of creating overlapping products (Buzz, Wave, Reader, Talk, Gmail, Chrome, Android) then giving cloudy guidance on where they'll integrate, where they'll silo and where they'll make into a platform. Similarly, as a consumer, partner, developer, wouldn't it be nice if they could just be clear where they are experimenting, where it's a product and where it ties into with a larger vision. After all, between pivoting between labs, beta and NOT, they render these boundaries somewhat meaningless as demarcation lines, and generally risk teaching the market to only pay prolonged, serious attention when Google shows that THEY are paying prolonged serious attention to a given product, which doesn't seem like a winning strategy for successful market innovation, IMHO."

"Sergey Brin said that Buzz gives the ability "to post a message without a 'to' line." That's exactly right - something that in retrospect is so brilliantly obvious that it will soon no doubt be emulated by every other cloud-based email system." + "the fact that whatever you buzz is added to your Google profile (and immediately picked up in Google search) will turn those seemingly vestigial Google profiles into something that might just become the next generation personal home page." + "You can begin to see where all this is going: the integration of Gmail, Buzz, Reader, Voice, Geo, Blogger, YouTube, Calendar, Contacts... Buzz is a game-changing first step, but when you think about where Google will take this over the next year it gets exciting..." + "In some ways, Gmail Buzz brings many of the benefits of Google Wave to Gmail … [but] I don't have to adopt a new tool or build a new social network."

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_buzz_is_disruptive_open_data_standards.php : "Buzz is all about open, standardized user data. Google Buzz data can be syndicated out to other services using the standard data formats called Atom, Activity Streams, MediaRSS and PubSubHubbub. That couldn't be more different from Facebook. Google has taken open data standards to battle against a marketplace of competitors that are closed and proprietary to varying degrees. This is a very big deal.

"Claims based on email soundbites are demonstrably false – there is manifestly no evidence of clandestine data manipulation". I hope the Guardian bundles all these parts up and issues them as a booklet. I'd buy that.