HighTouch: July 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Wave invite

Big news: I got my invite to Google Wave.

Hope to see you on Google Wave soon...

I am so excited. Now I'm just hoping that our entire team got invites. I think Google has got the model right with this. I think it's going to be huge-- game changing. I suspect I will be writing a lot more about Wave going forward. I can't wait to dive-in.

UPDATE: If you're also on Wave and want to hook-up I am k1v1n@wavesandbox.com

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Free available for free

Image via Wikipedia

I'm buying the book-- I want my reading to be portable, but if you're into free then here's the whole thing. Have at it. Now you have no excuse for not joining in the HighTouch Bookclub fun.

FREE for free: first ebook and audiobook versions released

We’re going to be rolling out the free digital forms of FREE over the next two weeks. First up: the Scribd form, right here on the blog (and anywhere else you want—it’s embeddable). This is the whole book!

FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson

Monday, July 6, 2009

The next read for the Hightouch Book Club

I'm ready to start the third book of the Hightouch Book Club. We read books that "touch on the intersection of technology and culture (loosely defined)". I hope you'll consider getting the book, reading along, and even commenting.

The book club can be a lonely place. I know that a few people at least read the last book, The Whuffie Factor because they told me. No one commented in the Friend Feed room, however. It's been so quiet that I had to question the value of the activity. I realized that the exercise satisfied the Delicious Lesson: personal value precedes network value. For me, the value is that I am completing books where in the past I almost never did. I can't count the number of partially read books I have on the bookshelf. Since starting the book club I've finished the last three. Kind of sad that I have to post the notes in order to finish, but that's my reality.

That said, the next read will be Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. Yes, I know about the unattributed lifting of some of the content from Wikipedia-- I don't care so hold your breath. This book will be available Tuesday, July 7. I hope you'll get it, read along, and maybe even join in the conversation.