Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 1st:

• Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave (Chris Dannen/Fast Company) – I know what he means by all these silo'd social nets that need interconnected, but the promise I see in Wave is that it would replace all those disparate parts or let you use them if you wished. Let someone else tie these things together into a package. I gave up Twitter by and large when all my family moved to Facebook. Why twitter and try to tie that into Facebook when that function already exists within Facebook? All of this is turning into way too much trouble. Reminds me of trying to manage friends in ICQ, Yahoo and MSN back in the dinosaur years. What goes around, comes around, eh?
• SOE Pulls the Plug On *The Matrix Online* – Huh… I thought this was dead quite a while ago.
• Can We Finally Commit to the End of Knowledge-Based Authentication? – Ditto. I've been here for along time, but good to now have supposedly "non-biased" players weigh in so I can point my customers to it. Then perhaps, they'll consider it and not just pass it off as "vendor spin". Given the rash of Xbox Live accounts that were behing "pwned" via Q&A guessing a few months back, I'm surprised this hasn't happened in big enough numbers at a financial institution to make it to the headlines.