Moved Temporarily. 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. The process usually involves one reporter talking to and researching a few things and another following a different set of sources and finally combining their findings toward the end. Relevance meets the real-time web. Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it.
That's why today, at the Computer History Museum, we're excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search that we feel are important steps in the evolution of information access. First, we're introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we'll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page. Here's how it looks: Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend'. Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets.
This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that information isn't always very easy to find in one simple place. That's why 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.
It should be available for everyone to try by the end of the day, so be sure to check back. A lot of people write about New York, so if I do a search for [new york] on Google, my best friend's New York blog probably isn't going to show up on the first page of my results. All the information that appears as part of Google Social Search is published publicly on the web — you can find it without Social Search if you really want to. Newspaper on Google Wave: RedEye, Chicago's newspaper, gets. Google’s Wave drowns out Microsoft’s Bing hype. Anyone who thought Google might grow complacent in the face of their continued success wasn’t banking on the curveball they threw today. Stealing any thunder Microsoft might have managed to generate for Bing, day 2 of the Google I/O conference saw the announcement of a new collaborative communications platform, Wave.
Designed by the development team behind Google Maps, Wave is designed to be an evolution of email and IM. Wave allows groups to work together in the same web environment, throwing images, photos and videos into a shared conversation stream. The concept is essentially the same as a FriendFeed group, with the same realtime multimedia flow. However, while FriendFeed is geared up for threaded discussions similar to the bulletin boards of yore, Google Wave seems like it will be more suitable to an on-going teamworking environment. Interestingly, a ‘replay’ function is available, allowing the evolution of a conversation to be reviewed later. The potential here is huge. Gmapsmania - 100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups. Sites linking to this page: Digg, C|Net News.com, StumbleUpon, MentalFloss, Corriere (Italy), Del.icio.us/Popular, Korben, SiliconValley.com, Geek News Central, LifeHacker, Bildirgec, NRK (Norway) [ Back to Google Maps Mania.. ] 1.
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