From Wired, Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff declare the Web is dead — long live the Internet (and more and a debate). A moving recap of some of the stuff that predeceased the Web — you may want to bring a handkerchief. The search party: Can Google find its footing in this brave new world? Google and the search for the future: The Web icon's CEO Eric Schmidt on the mobile computing revolution, the future of newspapers, and privacy in the digital age. The young will have to change names to escape their "cyber past", warns Google's Eric Schmidt. Google's chief says privacy is dying, but does the Facebook generation care? From Digital Culture and Education, Kerry Mallan (QUT): Look at me! Look at me! Self-representation and self-exposure through online networks; and Shelia Zimic (Mid Sweden): Not so "techno-savvy": Challenging the stereotypical images of the "Net generation". I tweet, therefore I am: Are Twitter posts an expression of who we are — or are they changing who we are? Peril and Promise: Will social networks change our world, or just reinforce it? A Death on Facebook: Kate Bolick on intimacy and loss in the age of social media. More and more on The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick. Meetup wants to be Facebook for the real world. Meet the fastest growing company ever: Andrew Mason figured out how to inject hysteria into the process of bargain hunting on the Web — the result is an overnight success story called Groupon. Some online commentators are already sounding Chatroulette's death knell, but rumors of the service's demise may be greatly exaggerated.
