“Attendees will be able “live wave:” view live notes, ask questions via a Google Moderator gadget, and discuss content.”

Sounds interesting – while I’ve participated in a number of live waving at conferences before, and the use case is pretty much laid out, it wasn’t a big hit so far. This may be due to a number of reasons, including limited responsiveness of the Wave servers and not enough visibility among the fellow attendees (2500 people at LeWeb and only a handful of Wave-istas, yuck). It’s good to see that Google is tackling these obstacles.

Hehe, and now for something completely different from the usual routine – Hugh MacLeod plays a very nice joke on James (#yesyesyes). Let me tell you he’s got way more hair in real life …

Reading up on Jeremiah Owyang’s take on the stages companies go through on the way to becoming social businesses. Granted, no two companies are alike, and they will show varying speeds, may rest saturated at different levels of maturity (which can work out really bad, no progress in a progressing field …), and they sure place the social business design into the hands of different people (and organizational functions, that is). Some may never reach the holistic stage where the business is social by design …