Google Wave Features

A wave can be both a discussion and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps. Wave builds on the concept of cloud computing.
Google wave is going to become a wave of the future. It is a next generation web-based communication and collaboration tool.
Google wave can merges service e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking together at one single platform.
Common terms which are used in Wave are Wavelet, Blip, Document, Extension, Gadgets, Robots
Key features of Wave:
• Real-Time information
• Live transmission of any type
• Used as faster conversation
• Wave is used as new way of creating dialogue among group of users
• Google Wave contains gadgets and tools
• In Google wave there are gadgets like Wikify which can brings Wikipedia to your Google Wave account.
• It include tools for checking spelling and grammar
• It has a great futures like translating between 40 different languages by using Rosy Extension.
• It has TWaves extension that allows the user to incorporate their tweet stream.
• It has drag and drop sharing of digital assets like photos, sound and video.
• Playback facility
• Open Source
• Easy embedding facility
• eBayBot - Search eBay in Google Wave
• Google Wave has a Public Timeline, like Twitter ( “with:public” )
• Webcam Video Chat and Much More on Google Wave with 6rounds
• Adding new people to the conversation easy
• Used as customer support tool for marketers
• Bloggy extension can Embeds the Wave into a blog
• Polly the Pollster : Creates any poll you can imagine
Google Wave is going to become project management tool for the future.
No doubt Google wave is going to become a future marketing tool. Marketers will have the ability to create customer support in real time.
It is also becoming developer heaven for developing gadgets and extensions and Google has announced that there will be an official Wave app store.
According to experts research Google Wave is a best to organize role playing games in the coming future.
Wave is going to become a real-time marketing strategy for the marketers.

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Google Wave First Look

If you're not one of the 100,000 lucky users who gets an invitation to Google Wave today, don't fret. You can check out Google Wave right here.

But first, ground rules. Click on all images in this post to see them full size. Uppercase "Wave" refers to the entire Google Wave product. Lowercase "wave" refers to an individual message or document. Think of a lowercase wave like an email or a Google Doc that you're collaborating on with other people. The screenshots in this post are from the Wave developer preview, not wave.google.com, invites to which are going out today. We'll update this post with anything significantly new in the non-preview version when we get our grubby little paws on the proper server invitation.

Here is a simple video i took from YouTube to present Google Wave's nice features

Ready? Let's go.

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Google Wave Ready For Wider Test

Google Wave is ready for its next step: a more thorough test of its scalability and stability as more than 100,000 new users crowd onto the service.

As promised, Google plans to open Google Wave beyond an extremely limited preview on Wednesday, granting access to users who have signed up in hopes of getting a chance to try the service. Google received more than 1 million requests to participate in the preview, said Lars Rasmussen, engineering manager for Google Wave, and while it won't be able to accommodate all those requests on Wednesday it is at least ready to begin the next phase of the project.

Google Wave is an attempt to re-engineer Internet communication, blending elements of e-mail, instant messaging, social networking, and workplace collaboration software into a single Web application. It was first unveiled at Google I/O in May before Web developers who were a bit dazzled by the possible uses of the technology.

At present, however, Google Wave is one big bug bash, perhaps half a year away from launching as a stable product. Google engineers have solved many of the more persistent bugs that were hampering the product a few months ago, but there is still a long way to go and Wave should not be considered anything but a "preview," Rasmussen said. Still, that's better than "developer preview," the status previously attached to Wave that implied only hardcore techies should venture within.

In addition to the developers and waiting list, Google also plans to open Wave up to a limited number of Google Apps enterprise customers for testing, Rasmussen said. A few companies, such as SAP and Salesforce.com, have already started playing around with the technology but Google is seeking feedback from other organizations on how Wave might work within their environment.

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Google to let publishers limit free website access

WASHINGTON (AFP) -Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.

Google's announcement came as the News Corp. chairman, who has threatened to block the Internet giant from indexing his newspapers, and other US media heavyweights gathered here to discuss journalism in the Internet age.

Murdoch, speaking at the two-day meeting hosted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), said newspapers "need to do a better job of persuading consumers that high quality reliable news and information does not come free."

"Good journalism is an expensive commodity," said the 78-year-old Murdoch, who repeated his intention to begin charging readers of News Corp. newspapers on the Web.

Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, accused Murdoch and other newspaper publishers meanwhile of being in "digital denial" and said they needed to "stop whining."

Murdoch has blasted Google and other news aggregators for "stealing" stories without sharing advertising revenue and has reportedly been holding talks with Microsoft about making News Corp.'s content accessible exclusively through the software giant's new search engine, Bing.

Acknowledging that "creating high-quality content is not easy and, in many cases, expensive" Google said in a blog post it was changing its "First Click Free" program.

First Click Free directs readers from Google or Google News to a story on a newspaper's website but prevents them from having unrestricted access.

Google noted, however, that some readers were "abusing" the program by returning to Google or Google News and clicking through to other stories.

"Previously, each click from a user would be treated as free," Google senior business product manager Josh Cohen said. "Now, we've updated the program so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing."

Without naming any companies, Murdoch hit out at news aggregators saying they are "feeding off the hard-earned efforts and investments of others." "To be impolite it's theft," he said.

The News Corp. chief also said "the old business model based on advertising only is dead."

"In the future, good journalism will depend on the ability of a news organization to attract readers by providing news and information they're willing to pay for," Murdoch said. "In the new business model we will be charging consumers for the news we provide on our Internet sites."

Noting that the Wall Street Journal is already charging online, he said: "We intend to expand this pay model to all our newspapers in the News Corp. stable: the Times of London, The Australian, the rest."

"Some critics say people won't pay," Murdoch said. "I believe they will."

He also warned against seeking government help for the newspaper industry, which is battling declining print advertising revenue, falling circulation and free news on the Web.

"The prospect of the US government becoming directly involved in commercial journalism ought to be chilling to anyone who cares about free speech," Murdoch said.

Huffington rejected Murdoch's criticism of news aggregators saying they actually drive traffic to newspaper websites.

"In most industries, if your customers were leaving in droves, you would try to figure out what to do to get them back," she said. "Not in the media. They'd rather accuse aggregators of stealing their content.

"It's time for traditional media companies to stop whining," she said.

Also addressing the FTC event was Steven Brill, a co-founder of Journalism Online, a company which is seeking to help news organizations make money on the Web.

Brill said market research suggests that some news sites may be able to get 10 percent or more of their readers to pay online for content of "distinctive value."

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Used Mac Laptops - Warning Signs People Miss Very Often

Whenever someone hears about used Mac laptops, a warning sign is the last thing on their minds because it's a Mac! What can possibly go wrong with it right? If it's used or refurbished, everything and anything can go wrong very quickly. I'm going to help you with your next Mac laptop purchase so you can avoid this.

The 3 Main Warning Signs

1. A low price is fine, but an extremely inexpensive price is usually a bad buy! - if you already know the average price on most refurbished Macintosh laptops, when you find a used one that is ridiculously low, bring your eyes to the seller review page as quickly as you can to make sure the seller's reputable. You may very well be tricked into buying a MacBook without a screen or without any software, whichever is worse for you.

2. No warranty - no matter what, any purchase you make online from used Mac laptops to candy apples, make sure there's some kind of return policy or else you could be stuck with a piece of junk while the seller keeps your money and spends it on their new MacBook.

3. Less than 4 highlighted stars - stars are huge thing for me, a 3-star rating is fine but a 5-star rating is great!

How to Correctly Purchase on Amazon
Once you've found your used Mac laptop of choice, read the description and make sure there is a good warranty. Also in the description, make sure you know every piece of equipment that comes with it. Finally, go over to the seller reviews by finding the "used" and "refurbished" links located to the right of the brief description and make sure the buyer's feedback is over 90% positive.

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Converting Word Files to PDF - Advantages of Having PDF Files

Managing a business, practicing your profession and many other things we do in life indeed involves a lot of paperwork and files - from receipts to contracts to many other important documents. With the convenience of the internet these days, business and personal documents are also being kept as files in the hard drive and archived electronically. With this, converting word files to PDF or portable document format has become popular as well.

With the many software and applications that we have today when it come to online files, it is important as well to find a file format that makes our files easy to manage but not easy to alter. PDF files have then become a good choice for businesses and even for personal files that you want to store electronically.

To help you understand the advantages of converting word files to PDF, here are some the good points of using PDF files.

- One good thing about PDF files is that, the software that you will need to open your PDF files is free. All you have to do is download it online and you can already open and read your files without having to spend a huge sum of money.

- Files set in PDF format can be opened anywhere - from your PC, your mobile phone, or your PDA, and that makes it easy and convenient. Of course, the most obvious and main advantage of converting your files to this format is all about portability and being able to access your files anywhere is a good advantage in these times that we prefer services that are fast, convenient and easy.

- Files in portable document format are also convenient because it can be opened in many platforms like Windows, Linux and Mac, thus you don't have to worry about opening your files in different computers and wherever you want to access your files.

- Another good thing about files converted to PDF is security. Files in this format cannot be easily manipulated without leaving any electronic proof that it has been altered, thus it can indeed be useful in easy storing your personal and business documents. Documents in portable document format can also be signed digitally for authenticity, as this document format also supports good encryption. Of course, this will provide integrity to your documents as well.

- Converting word files to PDF is also a good way to make your files safe, as documents in this format have almost no chance of being infected with a virus.

- One of the conveniences of having your files in the portable document format is that, it also allows compression of your files. Especially if you have lots of graphics in your word file or your Powerpoint file, converting them to the portable document format will help you save memory on your PC and helps you upload your documents faster and easier.

Aside from all these, PDF files can also be created not only from word files but from many other sources. You can create them from scanned images or documents, you can create them from web pages as well as any electronic documents.

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Three Most Important Tips When Buying a Refurbished Tablet PC

Have you been panting after the new crop of beautiful tablet laptop on display every where just in time for the up coming holiday season? Thinking you couldn't afford even the most basic model? Well, don't cross off this mobile computing tool off your list yet. By buying a refurbished tablet PC, you could own one for yourself and still have left over money to buy additional accessories.

Most people might be leery of purchasing electronic items when they hear the word refurbished. But if you understand the process of why and how manufacturers offer refurbished merchandise, then you can buy with confidence while saving money at the same time.

Armed with a typical return policy, a customer can return a purchased tablet PC to the store and he often doesn't have to have to offer the reason why he doesn't want it anymore. The store, protected by the manufacturer's policy, returned the same item to the manufacturer's warehouse. This electronic product then is inspected and if needed repaired to like new condition. It is then offered to customers under the refurbished label often at incredibly discounted prices.

Buying a refurbished tablet PC can be a great experience if you follow these three most important tips:

How do you plan to use your tablet computer?

Do you travel a lot? If you need to take notes in class or do presentations for clients, then an ultra-portable type or the thin and light type would be perfect for you. Their extremely compact size even with battery can be as light as a little over 3 pounds. Make sure to write down all the features you must have come with your tablet laptop.

Reputable Vendors - Price Comparisons

Most manufacturers of most popular tablet PC brand names also sell them as refurbished as well. Manufacturers such as HP, Lenovo, Dell, Gateway, Fujitsu, Asus, make tablet PC which are often rated very highly among users. Their websites often post promotional offers or clearance and closeout deals. Many of these manufacturers also have an Ebay seller account so make sure to search there for refurbished tablet PC.

Warranty Period and Return Policy

Before purchasing your refurbished tablet PC, you need to find out how long is the warranty period and how lenient is the return policy for each of these vendors. I actually called the customer service department to clarify how long after my purchase of the refurbished tablet PC can I still purchase additional warranty.

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Blog Reactivation!!

Because i have so many activities in my real life, i couldn't update my blog in last 4-5 month..
but, in order to keep my creativity sharp, i'm willing to reactivate and start updating this blog again!

just wait and see..:)

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