Check out This Massive List of Google+ Shared Circles. A platform is only as good as the people who are on it, right? While Google+ does a pretty good job of surfacing cool people to follow through its suggested users list, shared Circles are an even better way to find people to engage with. Once in a while I’ll see someone that I follow share one of these Circles, and it usually has some type of theme, be it photography, technology or entertainment. One user decided that it would be a good idea to put together a massive Google spreadsheet of Google+ shared Circles, neatly categorized for your enjoyment: Along with the Circle name, you’ll find who authored it, as well as links to the Circle itself. It’s a huge help for those of us who want to jump right into the Google+ destination site but don’t have anyone interesting to follow. Whether you’re interested in sports, celebs, education or business, you’re sure to find a Circle that nabs your interest.
No more excuses, get to following. How To Add Twitter To Google Wave. Yes, the Google Wave invites are going out. All logged in? Now it’s time to start tweeting from Google Wave. Here’s how. The only Twitter client I know of is called Tweety the Twitbot. I used Tweety in the Google Wave sandbox preview and completely forgot how I added it back then. Go to your contacts window and click the + sign at the bottom to add a new contact: Enter this address: tweety-wave@appspot.com Now make a new wave. Next you’ll get an authenticating message: A new window will open to connect Wave to your Twitter account: After you sign in successfully, you’ll get a message confirming this, and then the window will close. Back in your wave, push the “Done” button if you’re still seeing the authentication message.
Enter your tweet into the top box (first arrow in the screenshot) and push update to send. Below the tweet box, you’ll see tweets from others (second, lower arrow in the screenshot). After that, well, I find that the box doesn’t seem to update. 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter. Months after the initial Twitter boom, it's still strong and kicking. A day rarely goes by that we don't notice some new Twitter tool in the wild. The ideal place for Twitter-related tools is the web browser, which is apparent from the quick-rising number of Firefox plugins. We've found eight; you let us know if there are more! 1. Twitbin The latest plugin in this bunch is very new, and we've covered it here on Mashable. Twitbin can be used to send and receive messages from Twitter, it's a sidebar (which, unfortunately, means it's occupying the space where most users like to keep their bookmarks) and it looks quite nice. twitbin.com 2.
Tweetbar works with both Firefox and Flock, and just like Twitbin, it's a sidebar-based plugin which you can use to send and receive messages from Twitter. Mikedemers.net/projects/tweetbar 3. As the name suggests, TwitterNotifier notifies you with updates from your Twitter friends. Www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterNotifier 4. Www.foxytunes.com/twittytunes/ 5. Google Wave Cheat Sheet. Google Wave 101 - Wave - Lifehacker. How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los An. Google Wave lets users collaborate live on documents. The tech world is awash with excitement for today's scheduled release of 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave.
Seems like everyone is buzzing about how the collaborative Web tool will revolutionize how we do business, organize parties, manage projects with friends, cheat on homework and market brands (trust us, we've seen the news releases, plural). The term "Google Wave" has been on Twitter's top-trending list all day. For the last two months, while we've been testing the Google Wave developer preview, we have been talking amongst ourselves about how this thing could change (or add to) what we do.
So, here's a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave. Collaborative reporting: You may notice that double bylines aren't very common. That's because trying to co-author a news story stinks. We're not going to e-mail our co-writers with every new lead and minute detail we dig up. Live editing: We love our editors (really, we do). Google Wave: Is the World Ready? On May 28th, tech circles went wild when Google revealed Google Wave at its Google I/O conference. The response to and the questions about the new communication platform were staggering. Is it something I should use? Is it a game-changer? Could it kill email itself?
This type of lofty rhetoric will always raise hopes and draw scrutiny. It's All or Nothing with Wave I have used Wave extensively since the sandbox preview became available, and I will tell you this: it breaks normal conversation conventions left and right. We know that the early adopters will use this (and forgive its flaws) in a heartbeat. Google Wave is asking people to do things that grind against the norm.
Google Wave will either succeed spectacularly or completely bomb. Is the world ready for Google Wave? One more thing: if you want to be in on the action, you better sign up for an account soon. More Google Wave Resources from Mashable. Solid State Group Tech Blog. First Thoughts on Google Wave Yesterday I was given my Developer Preview account by the Google Wave team. To say I have been eager to try Wave out since watching the original video is something of an understatement! I felt a bit like Charlie unwrapping his chocolate bar and finding a golden ticket. OK well maybe not that excited, but you know, a brand new messaging medium in a world where I receive coming on to a thousand emails, IMs, tweets and SMS messages of day is something to get excited about.
Then I started thinking; is this thing going to add to the information overload, or actually help me make sense of it all? Yes, it's a Paradigm Shift Is it an IM app? I think it's more accurate to say that it's a bunch of shared IM conversations that are organised like email messages and stored on the server for time immemorial. Another analogy - it's like real time email. Once you include the gadgets and robots, things start getting a bit out of control!
User Interface It's pretty slick. Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform Fo. Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. While we’re not there yet, all the major browser players besides Microsoft are aligned and ready for the next phase, which will include such things as the ability to run 3D games and movies in the browser without additional plug-ins.
But Google wants to take it one step further with a brand new method of communication for this new era. It’s called Google Wave. Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it. At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Wave is. Having seen a lengthy demonstration, as ridiculous as it may sound, I have to agree. Features Maybe you want to add another friend to the wave. And from here we go much deeper. A New Web. Google Wave: Powered by Google Web Toolkit. Google Wave Use Cases: Education. Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform.
It was announced at the end of May, released as a 'Preview' product shortly after and 100,000 more invites were made available at the end of September. Early users reported mixed feelings. But one month after Google Wave was opened to tens of thousands of people, how are people using it now? What use cases are being discovered? Let's start with the education sector. We'll explore other use cases in upcoming posts. What is Google Wave Again? A quick reminder of what Google Wave is. In a recent CNN profile, Wave creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen described it as making email "collaborative and instant. " Wave in Class After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. The wave was started to explore concepts like "Collaborative Note Taking" and "Wave as a Debate Host. " This particular wave was framed at the start as being "a set of collaborative documents, supported by a chat.
" Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D - Ars Technica. From the early days of the printing press to the dawn of the VHS era, it's been a clich that the first thing humans do upon inventing a new medium is distribute pornography with it. While this clich may hold true for most humans and most media, there is one conspicuous exception: the computer geek. From Nethack to play-by-post forums on the WWW, the first thing that computer geeks do upon inventing a new medium is play Dungeons and Dragons with it—the porn comes later, after the role-playing game itch is scratched. Thus it was that when I finally got my Google Wave invite and did a bit of poking around, I wasn't the least bit surprised to quickly discover a handful of Wave-based roleplaying games already in progress, and many more in various stages of planning.
Getting oriented If you're not familiar with the concept behind Wave, don't worry—it's hard to explain. In case you're curious, here's a shot of my Wave inbox, in three-pane format, with a Mouse Guard RPG wave on the right: Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication. We’re now a little over a week into the extended roll-out of the preview build of Google Wave. This is an important time for the service because many people can now finally start using it as they eventually may — which is to say, with their friends and colleagues.
Of course, the backlash is also already in full-swing, as expected. But I can’t help but wonder if this backlash and the hype that it is a byproduct of, is blinding some to the larger picture. Google Wave is not just a service, it is perhaps the most complete example yet of a desire to shift the way we communicate once again. The Wall Street Journal has a long article about this today, noting “The End of the Email Era.”
For many of us, email is simply not cutting it the way that it used to. We all still use email, of course. That’s absolutely true. I would consider email to be a passive form of communication. Google Wave is attempting to be a passive-agressive form of communication. That’s why Wave is interesting. Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave) - 11 Wave Tools You May Not Know Exist. How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los An. Google Wave Questions and Answers - Google Wave Preview. Testing Google Wave: This Thing is Tidal.
Everyone's been talking about it: Google Wave. Google's super communication tool has been a top trend on Twitter, a focus of media speculation, and was even able to knock Microsoft's Bing from the top of the news cycle. But almost all the hype has been based on the demos - almost nobody's actually got to try out Google Wave. Well, thanks to a few of our friends, we had the opportunity today to try out the alpha version of this groundbreaking new service. From creating waves to joining in on discussions, we put the newest Google sensation through the ringer. Does Google Wave stand up to the hype? Still got questions? Interface Overview: The interface, at first glance, mirrors email. Central to Google Wave's interface is search - you create specific searches based on not only keywords, but activity, history, person, and more. Another bonus: each box can be collapsed to save you room.
The good and bad: It's not as complicated as some other screenshots have shown. Communication Extensions. The Top 6 Game-Changing Features of Google Wave. Without a doubt, the product that has the entire web buzzing right now is Google Wave, the search giant's newly announced communication platform. Earlier this week, we brought you detailed information on the new Google product in our article Google Wave: A Complete Guide, but now we want to explore exactly why everyone is so excited about Google Wave.
You've probably heard people talk about Google Wave being a game-changer, a disruptive product, or maybe even as an email killer. But while keywords and phrases like these grab people's attention, they don't explain why or how Google Wave could be a paradigm-shifter. In this article, we explore these questions by highlighting some of Google Wave's most unique and promising features. By exploring these features, we can better understand the potential of this new technology. 1. Why it's game-changing: There was a perfect example of how this changes communication during Google's demo of the product. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps. But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps. As always, Jens came up with the answer: communication. He pointed out that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the '60s to imitate analog formats — email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. Since then, so many different forms of communication had been invented — blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. — and computers and networks had dramatically improved. So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point, and I was immediately sold. We had a blast the next couple years turning Where 2's prototype mapping site into Google Maps.
Wave - Communicate and collaborate in real time. Google Wave: des extensions à la tonne | Descary. Googlewave.