Google’s new service, Google Wave is generating so much buzz and everyone really wants to learn more about Google Wave. Thousands of articles and blog post are written in one day about Google’s new service. To help you save time, we’ve compiled a list of top ten links that describe Google Wave best.

1. Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave : Google’ s Softaware Engineering Manager, Co-developer of Google Maps and Google Wave, Lars Rasmussen tells about Google Wave in this official Google Blog post.

2. Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web : MG Siegler of TechCrunch describes Google Wave as a new platform for a new web in his article.

3. Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New Benchmark For Interactivity : TechCrunch IT Editor Steve Gilmor caught up with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and asked him about Google Wave. Don’t miss this video interview.

4. Google Wave: A Complete Guide : Mashable editor, Ben Parr compiled key information you should know about Google Wave.

5. Is Google Wave a Twitter Killer? avid Coursey from PCWorld searches an aswer to this question.

6. Google Wave: the Early Days : Tim O’Reilly, the Internet guru who first defined Web 2.0; wrote about the early days of Google Wave story which he learned from his conversation with Lars Rasmussen, at the Google I/O conference.

7. Google Wave: Five Things You Must Know : Mark Hachman form PcMagazine lists five thing you must know about Google Wave.

8. Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave : This FastCompany post written by Chris Dannen describes five reasons to be terrified of Google Wave.

9. Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave : A must-read CNET article about Google Wave by Tom Krazit.

10. Google Wave API : Google Wave API central for developers interested in building applications for Google wave.

Google Wave is still unavailable and and if you want to be informed when it is available, signup for Google Wave updates.

Music is one of the indispensable part of our lives. As the internet gets accessible to more people, the number of legal and illegal ways to access music online increases.

As the Web gets more popular, online music services are transformed into Music 2.0 services. Music 2.0 is a networked, web-native,de-centralized and wherever accesible (especially mobile) music business (source:mediafuturist) . If you want to learn more about Music 2.0,  the presentation below prepared by Gerd Leonhard is the best to learn what music 2.0 is. There are hundreds of music 2.0 services. The most popular ones are iTunes, Last.fm, Imeem. If you wonder all of them, you can check RocketSurgeon’s Music 2.0 directory on his blog.

As the Web 2.0 goes beyond user expectations, Web 3.0 called as “semantic web” comes out. To me, Web 3.0 means collaboration and there’s a new Music 3.0 service called Fizy. Fizy is worth writing a special review.

In this post, we’ll take a look at LinkedIn’ s excellent growth but firstly let’s talk a few about ‘Business Social Networking’ .

Day to day, social networking becomes more important for us. Organizations that want to manage partnerships with their customers, suppliers and other organizations in the same industries start attending ‘Business Social Networks’. These organizations gain more efficient methods of communication, feedback and insight opportunity from their partners.

Succesful businesses recognize the importance of increasing loyalty through active communities for their partners. Smart companies use Web 2.0 technologies to reach their ‘business partners ecosystem’ with a cheaper, faster, more measurable and more efficient way. They use their business social networks as an easy and a powerful tool to reach and listen to their partners.

The value of a business social network is limited by the ability of creating conversations, sharing experiences, answering questions and offering feedback from partners. Briefly, the business professionals have started to see the value of being trasparent to their partners and understand to use social networks as viral marketing tools – called ‘social network marketing’ . ‘Monetizing the value of social networks’ will be a topic of a future post.

LinkedIn is the biggest business social networking site that gives members the ability of creating business contacts, finding potential customers, hiring/seeking jobs. LinkedIn has 30+ million users representing 150+ industries around the world. LinkedIn founded in 2003 and has caught a sustainable growth in years. In 2007, LinkedIn grew more than 300%.  LinkedIn’ s creative platform has changed traditional business card exchange process into spending time on LinkedIn and watching number of connections grow.

Today, LinkedIn CEO Dan NYE is announcing on company blog that LinkedIn has received $22.7 million investments from market leaders in their sectors. SAP Ventures, Goldman Sachs and The McGraw-Hill join the LinkedIn team after this investment. LinkedIn’s D Round of Funding closed at $1 billion valuation. In this volatile economic enviroment, it’s a very precious success to get these important companies as strategic partners. We congratulate LinkedIn …

Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0 Wiki.

Web 1.0 was about web pages linking to web pages. Web 2.0 is a transform, web pages to web applications.  The next generation of the web is Web 3.0 – the semantic web.

The Web 3.0 will be mashups of applications with artificial intelligence. The control of the Internet will go out off our hands and the web itself will control the Internet.

The Web 3.0 Expo will be at October 16-17 in Santa Clara, CA. At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo; the strategies, tools, technologies and the big ideas necessary for building impactful, socially relevant, and profitable Web 3.0 products, services and companies will be explored. Featured sessions include:

• Monetization Implications of Web 3.0 (Semantic Advertising, etc.)
• Raising Capital For Next Generation Companies
• Semantic Search Technologies
• From Web 2.0 to 3.0 – Tales from the Trenches
• Business Risks of Web 3.0 …