1. Slide, Vic Gundotra & the un-social reality of Google (GigaOm)
Om Malik’s misery over his failed baseball career (he just didn’t have the baseball swing, he says) is no different to Google’s failed move into the social web – its latest failure being the closure of Wave, its collaboration portal.
2. The future of broadband — in Tasmania (The New York Times)
Tasmania is leading Australia’s ambitious broadband plan to wire more than 90 percent of the nation’s homes with high-speed fibre optics. Steve Lohr looks at the plan.
3. Flipboard: the closest thing I’ve seen to the future of magazines (The Telegraph)
Although the iPad has no shortage of magazine apps Shane Richmond says he hasn’t found one that he finds compelling… until now. Flipboard describes itself as "your personalised, social magazine".
4. Crowdsourcing is far from easy for government (Gartner)
Although the UK government still has two crowdsourcing initiatives ongoing – one to ask for ways to save money and one about laws to be abolished – this first result does not look too encouraging, says Andrea Di Maio.
5. Why Autonomy won’t – or shouldn’t – buy Open Text (The 451 Group)
Rumours circulating cyberspace recently suggested that UK software house Autonomy was about to announce a major acquisition. Nick Patience argues that Open Text, one of the apparent targets, is not the right fit for Autonomy.
