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Enterprise 2.0: Google Wave, A Solution Seeking A Problem? - Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek

2009-11-12T00:25:00.000Z

Google employees, he said, use Waves primarily for collaborative design documentation, a use-case that could be served by a wiki, were wikis tuned for real-time interaction. Google workers also use Waves as an alternative to the "Working from home" messages that previously tended to clog e-mail inboxes. There's now a single Wave that Wave team members can use to update colleagues on their

Making Waves: SMC talks Google and FTC - Amy Berryhill, NYConvergence

2009-11-12T00:20:00.001Z

The demo included an overview of product features and an explanation of how Wave operates as a protocol, an application, a publishing system, and a real time collaboration system."Wave is a container," Blossom explained. "Wave can be pretty much anything you want to drop into the container."Together, Blossom and Greenstein created a new Wave to demonstrate how users could comment, reply, drop in

Are Twitter.com & Google Wave useful tools? - the Duke of URL, Maine Business

2009-11-12T00:14:00.000Z

Another useful feature is the automatic notice when new tweets are in your feed or list. Twitter.com is slowly catching up to Hootsuite. If it adds scheduling and multiple account features, Hootsuite will be dead to me.There is an important lesson here. Like many of the ways we use Twitter, retweets were created by users. Twitter didn't create it or imagine it. The same with hashtags.It takes a

Google Rolls Out Chrome 4.0 Beta and Updates Its Wave Platform - Desire Athow, IT Pro Portal

2009-11-11T00:25:00.001Z

The search engine giant Google has launched the latest iteration of its web browser Chrome while it has also updated its Google Wave platform with the aim of facilitating interoperability amongst Wave servers. The new version of Chrome offers a bookmark sync feature through which users can avoid the need for manually copying bookmarks amongst different computers and is likely to benefit users who

Mozilla Raindrop and Google Wave Totally Unrelated - rahsheen, BlackWeb 2.0

2009-11-11T00:20:00.001Z

First, everyone was waiting with baited breath for Google to release Wave. Google Wave was supposed to be the solution for all of our messaging and social media needs. It would replace FriendFeed, email, Twitter, Facebook, shrink Kanye�s ego, and solve world hunger. Once those few elite who got invites started to use it, we all realized it was no such solution. It�s a collaborative communication

Google Wave Simplified: How it Basically Works - Chris Crum, Web Pro News

2009-11-11T00:15:00.001Z

As you may know, Google has been sending out Google Wave invitations for a little while now. Many people are still finding these hard to come by, but others have been lucky enough to be selected and get their hands dirty. Those who have been granted access to Google Wave have the ability to nominate people for invitation, but not directly invite people themselves. So in other words, you're not

Malware writers bank on Google Wave interest - Shaun Nichols, V3

2009-11-10T00:25:00.001Z

Malware writers are already exploiting public interest in Google Wave, according to security researchers. Symantec explained in a recent report that a new wave of Trojans had been crafted to take advantage of heightened interest in the new invitation-only collaboration service that allows users to share text and media files in a single online space. Researchers uncovered Trojan applications

What's Google Wave Really For? - Chris Thompson, the Big Money

2009-11-10T00:20:00.000Z

That's the question on the minds of everyone who doesn't have access to the beta version of Google Wave floating around the Internet right now. As more than one person has noticed, the Wave may be an amalgam of e-mail and instant messaging and blogs and wiki pages, but you really have to use it in order to understand what it does. Meanwhile, Gina Trapani and Adam Pash have created an interactive

The Complete Guide to Google Wave

2009-11-10T00:15:00.000Z

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will

How to move campus IT from good to great - Dennis Carter, eCampus News At the 11th annual EDUCAUSE conference in Denver Nov. 4, more than 1,000 atte

2009-11-09T00:20:00.001Z

At the 11th annual EDUCAUSE conference in Denver Nov. 4, more than 1,000 attendees listened to the advice of best-selling author and business expert Jim Collins, who used his decades of business-world research to show how colleges and their information technology departments can improve from mediocre to world leaders. Collins, author of "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... And

Ubiquitous cloud computing by 2019? - Dennis Carter, eCampus News George O. Strawn has seen higher-education technology grow exponentially since the

2009-11-09T00:15:00.002Z

George O. Strawn has seen higher-education technology grow exponentially since the late 1960s, so a future campus that operates entirely on cloud computing where students have access to PCs that execute a trillion instructions per second does not seem far-fetched to him. Strawn, CIO for the National Science Foundation and a former computer science faculty member at Iowa State University,

Virtualization saves cash for college IT - Dennis Carter, eCampus News Replacing Pepperdine University's computer labs with low-cost PCs would have

2009-11-09T00:15:00.000Z

Replacing Pepperdine University's computer labs with low-cost PCs would have cost almost $25,000, so campus technology officials turned to virtualized computing, connecting many PCs to a single computer and saving nearly $18,000. Pepperdine IT administrators presented their cost-saving strategies Nov. 4 at the 11th annual EDUCAUSE conference in Denver, where thousands of college decision makers

Smartphones are catching on with US doctors - Harsha Sharma, BBC

2009-11-08T00:25:00.001Z

Pagers have for long been considered the doctor's sidekick but in the United States, as hospitals face pressure for greater efficiency, smartphones are taking over. The emerging industry of smartphone health technologies has caught the attention of Apple and Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry phone, as they see an opportunity to push their devices further. It is estimated that 64%

The more devices someone owns, the more likely they are to post status updates - Aleks Grynis, the Next Web

2009-11-08T00:20:00.000Z

Pew Internet, a nonprofit research organization, has produced a fascinating report into the way people are using status updates and Twitter. We thought we�d put together a quick summary of the most important tidbits of data. If you�re interested in the whole document you can find it on Pew Internet. �Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about

Novell: the first major corporation to announce Google Wave adoption - the Next Wave

2009-11-08T00:15:00.001Z

Novell, a global software corporation specializing in enterprise operating systems has announced Novell Pulse a new real time collaboration platform. What makes this so special? The platform features deep integration with Google Wave. Heck, if you want our opinion, we�d say this *is* Google Wave, with added security, and probably an entirely new UI (something Google proved was very possible when

PBworks Announces Real-Time and Voice Collaboration

2009-11-07T00:25:00.001Z

PBworks, the leading provider ofhosted collaboration solutions for business and education, today announced itsupcoming Real-Time Collaboration Update, including true VoiceCollaboration. Geographically-distributed teams will be able to work together on writingcontent, creating meeting notes in real-time, working together duringimpromptu conference calls, and enjoying other interactive features

What�s Your Favorite Google Wave Gadget? - Adam Hirsch, Mashable

2009-11-07T00:20:00.002Z

Google Wave is still a new phenomenon in the social media world. There is no Google Wave App Store yet and the API is relatively new, which means that Google Wave Gadgets are hard to find. The crux of Google Wave() is the extensions/apps or what Google Wave is calling �Gadgets�. Embeds and robots will have their place, but most likely not for the common user.[Ed Note: My favorite at this moment

Twitter Lists Inspired By Tweetdeck, Google Wave & Enterprise Microblogs - Ron Callari, InventorSpot

2009-11-07T00:14:00.000Z

With the Holiday Season fast approaching, you might want to consider "making your list and checking it twice." Lists are the new order of business in Twitterville. Some say it will take the place of "Follow Fridays." Others think its jumping on the the Google Wave and Enterprise Microblogs' bandwagon. Sort of like a Wave-lite, Twitter's new list feature seems to be attempting to combine email

Internet addresses set for change - BBC

2009-11-06T00:24:00.001Z

The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world. The board of Icann voted at its annual meeting in Seoul to allow domain names in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts. More than half of the 1.6 billion people who use the internet speak languages with non-Latin scripts. It is being described as the biggest change

How will you use Google Wave? - Nick Heath, ZDNet Asia

2009-11-06T00:20:00.001Z

It may have only been launched a few months ago but Google's Wave collaboration platform is already attracting attention from businesses, according to one of the key architects of the service. "Google is a company whose products usually start by capturing the imagination of consumers and then business gets interested but we have already had an enormous amount of interest [from companies],"

Google Voice - TransWorld News

2009-11-06T00:15:00.000Z

A famous pioneer in web technology, creating the most popular search website in use today, Google stands at the forefront of companies that are pushing everything into the developing arena of the internet. With some of the most brilliant minds at work under their roof, the services coming from their creativity have essentially changed how we communicate with each other. From Gmail to Google

Google introduces Social Search - John Brownlee, Geek.com Google introduces Social Search - John Brownlee, Geek.com

2009-11-05T00:26:00.001Z

Google usually does a pretty good job of selling their latest products: from Scott McCloud�s enthusiastic but ultimately somewhat patronizing comic expounding upon Chrome�s benefits, to their lengthy (frankly, too lengthy) Google Wave tutorial videos. But it�s hard to make sense of the headline to the announcement of Google�s latest service, Social Search: �I finally found my friend�s New York

L.A. votes to "Go Google"; pressure shifts to Google and the cloud - Sam Diaz, ZDNet

2009-11-05T00:20:00.000Z

The Los Angeles City Council today voted unanimously to �Go Google,� approving a $7.25 million contract to outsource the city�s e-mail system to Google�s cloud and transition some 30,000 city employees to the cloud over the coming year, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.Clearly, this is a big deal for the city of Los Angeles. But this vote is also monumental for cloud computing as a

Organization, not Collaboration, May Be Key to Google Wave's Success - Ann All, IT Business Tech

2009-11-05T00:15:00.000Z

Lots of folks seem excited by Google Wave's potential to radically alter collaboration. And maybe it will, but I don't think it will do so by offering some heretofore unimagined collaboration capabilities. Instead, like Google's hugely successful search engine (or a closet organizer), it'll change our lives simply by helping us find what we need.

First Google Wave, now Google Social Search - Daniel Gould, St. Louis Social Media Examiner

2009-11-04T00:20:00.000Z

The Official Google Blog says..."today we're rolling out a new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle." This is the next level in Social Media with a War already going on between, Twitter and Facebook, this changes the landscape. Bing struck first with their announcement that they will be brokering