Wednesday Reads 10/2/10

1. Google Buzz: What It Means For Twitter and Facebook. Google has not been successful in social networks, especially in US. Orkut has taken off in Brazil and India, but not in North America. Wave is too abstract for most users.

Now Google pins its hope on Buzz (a new Twitter and Facebook-like social stream) to wow the world. But does Buzz have the potential to leave estabilished social networks in the dust?

2. Virtualization Is the Trojan Horse to Take the iPad Beyond Apple’s OS. Citrix announced that its Receiver software will allow Apple iPad users to run Windows 7 sessions via virtualization. That will elevate iPad from an entertainment gadget to a useful business tool.

3. Do We Take Technology Advances Too Far? Are companies pushing themselves too hard to create the next big thing by sacrificing quality and pushing things out too quickly?

4. Kenya:How students use technology. For a third world country, the state of Information, Communication Technology (ICT) in Kenya is impressive. Impressive in terms of its rapid growth, its versatility in terms of the options it presents to the public and in the manner in which it is changing the lives of Kenyans.

5. Nanofiber-based Lighting Technology. RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.

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