Google Wave: Right here, right now.

Google Wave: Right here, right now.

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by Alex F. Vance.

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Faster, stronger, better, more.
As a New Media fag I’m all about doing more things faster, and the Rasmussens and their team clearly love me a great deal. While Wave is an open protocol and platform, and anyone will be able to build their own Wave server with their own interface, Google’s Wave interface is fast.
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Google Wave: Socket to me baby

Google Wave: Socket to me baby

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by Alex F. Vance.

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The Rasmussen Brothers, who sound like a zing-​​​​hip edge-​​​​jazz outfit that only really cool people have heard about, understand something that few technology inventors focus on too much: they have no control over the future. Most innovators like to own their invention and would love to be the King of the Thing that becomes hugely […]

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Google Wave: What does it do?

Google Wave: What does it do?

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by Alex F. Vance.

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Explaining Wave is a difficult thing. Going by bullet-​​​​points, knee-​​​​jerk reactions include understimation, confusion and dismissal. I tell you plainly, therefore, that Wave is the shit and to keep that in mind as you read this. I promise, pinky swear, that there will be honest critical evaluation later. For now, just go with it, ‘kay?

I will […]

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Google Wave: Dream Come True

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by Alex F. Vance.

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Henry Ford once said: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” Sage wisdom, that. I’m a sucker for Apple products because they consistently give me the little thrill of experiencing that someone, be it an architect, engineer or godly designer, gave great thought to making this feature or […]

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Google Wave is Awesome

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Alex F. Vance.

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I’m a New Media Guy. I’m easily excited by cool innovations in human communication. Blog–Journal, Face–Tube, Twit–Space, I love ‘em — and seeing new stuff emerging day and night keeps my hipster soul as happy as a pig in poo.
Some say people are getting dumber; I say that communication is becoming more egalitarian, that the dumb […]

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The Book, the ‘Zine, the Net and their Authors

The Book, the ‘Zine, the Net and their Authors

Posted on 19. Sep, 2009 by Alex F. Vance.

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This article first appeared in FANG Vol. 1 in 2005.

There was once a time, just between the rise of the fast-​​​​food, fast-​​​​everything economy in the West in the seventies and the flourishing of the modern Internet in the ‘90s, when the distribution of one’s  art through amateur media was possible, although it wasn’t easy. The availability of […]

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All a Matter of Perspective

All a Matter of Perspective

Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Alex F. Vance.

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I’ve been quite unfair, in this series (of which this installment is the last) in sketching a Jekyll & Hyde scenario of the Writer vs the Not Writer, because we’re all a bit of both. At different times, for different reasons. There’s a sliding scale between one and the other, see. The goal of these […]

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