Google Wave's Best Use Cases - Wave - Lifehacker @arekkusu82: Realistically, Wave is just a new implementation of an old idea. You can acheive much the same thing with SharePoint Discussion boards, or Microsoft Groove (which was developed by a different company before being gobbled up my Microsoft), or ShareFlow by zenbe. Wave is extensible, but so is SharePoint. Sure, the real time translation is pretty sweet, but all the "oooh, shiny" stuff in Wave are just features. The idea behind wave isn't anything groundbreaking...people just think it is because it's a Google project (Oooh! @arekkusu82: Given that Wave protocol is an open standard, not long. @Bill Clark: Yeah, it first looked to me like a fancy IRC client. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to try it.
The Top 100 Twitter Publishing Tools and Services | Brian Solis inShare0 Source As I was writing the report on Facebook and Twitter traffic growth, I had noticed that the engagement time at Twitter.com had dropped by 31 percent year-over-year. September 2009: 18:07 September 2008: 26:12 Engagement Difference = -31% I suspected that the shift in numbers stemed from the migration of those who previously interacted on Twitter.com and now engage via third-party clients such as TweetDeck, Seesmic, CoTweet, HootSuite, et al.
Cleaning Up The Stream: Twitter Kills Duplicate Tweets By now we’ve all likely seen the new “report spam” links on each Twitter user’s profile. Twitter rolled out that feature on twitter.com yesterday, and plans to roll out an API, so third-party apps can use it, sometime today. But Twitter has also quietly rolled out another new feature aimed at cleaning up the stream: Blocking duplicate tweets. If you try to enter text for a tweet that is exactly the same as a tweet you’ve recently sent, it will block it, saying “duplicate text” in a white drop down overlay (pictured below). Obviously, it would seem the idea here it to stop Twitter users from spamming their followers with multiple tweets. Duplicates (or “dupes”) have long been a problem on other social sites like Digg. [thanks Andrew]
College Kids Are the Digital Demo College students are the most connected demographic group in the US. They own multiple electronic devices and are a prime audience for online video. eMarketer estimates 18.2 million college students, 95.7% of the total, will go online at least once a month in 2009. As Internet usage becomes ubiquitous, the percentage of students online is growing more slowly, rising to an estimated 96.8% in 2013. “Not only is Internet access widely prevalent, but so is technology ownership in general,” said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, “College Students: Connecting with the Connected Crowd.” Students are heavy consumers of online video—but also regular TV. Despite the fears of some industry-watchers, college students are not abandoning social networks now that the sites have caught on among their elders. “So far, that is not happening,” said Ms.
New 'Mystery Google' search engine delivers random res Looking for an Internet search engine that delivers totally random results? Probably not. But if you are, there's one out there for you. It's called Mystery Google and is located at mysterygoogle.com. No matter what you type into the query box at Mystery Google it serves up the results of someone else's search. A search for "Twitter," for example, delivered links to websites about "cabbage." The query "Joe Biden" resulted in pages about "jellyfish." "Michael Jackson" served up links about "coiffure." And so on. There is one consistent result. The Mystery Google website has the spartan look of the traditional Google home page but the background is black as opposed to white and features a glowing moon at the top of the page. It also bears the notice "Google is a trademark of Google Inc." There was no immediate reply from Google to a query from AFP about the site, which makes its appearance about two weeks ahead of Halloween, the holiday of goblins, ghosts and "trick or treating." (c) 2009 AFP
Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The i Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets. The one that surprised me is that even though not that many people can use it yet, Google Wave already works on the iPhone. There are two ways to get Google Wave to work on your iPhone. But here is where it gets interesting. At least that is what it does for me and one of our readers, Rafael Vargas, who brought it to my attention. And if what I’m seeing is not a bug, it suggests a different approach to making mobile apps on the iPhone. The screenshot above shows what Google Wave looks like when launched from the icon on the Home screen.
7 Keys to Hosting Successful Chats With High-Profil In recent weeks we at De Tijd, a Belgian newspaper, have been experimenting with chat sessions where members of the Belgian government are brought in to discuss politics with our community. I’m very enthusiastic about this because I feel that our newspaper has enabled its community to have a direct, high-quality conversation with policy makers. I reported in a previous article about how we use CoverItLive for our chat sessions, live blogs and moderated live forums. CoverItLive has a lot of features and uses, but I’d like to focus on how it can be used for enabling a dialogue between policy makers and the citizens they serve. Bringing Government Ministers Into the Newsroom De Tijd has held two chat sessions with government members. While the questions and answers were flowing, one of our journalists was moderating the submissions from the community and grouping them into issue-related groups, such as crime and security, prison management, etc. Be visible. The Future Related
WordPress for iPhone › WordPress 2 submitted for rev This week I’m in beautiful Quebec with the staff of Automattic for our yearly company meeting. While my coworkers are celebrating fall birthdays, I’ve been working on uploading the final build of WordPress for iPhone 2.0. I can’t say for certain that ours is the first iPhone app submitted to Apple while drinking champagne in a former rectory, but I’m definitely not complaining. The result of months of effort by a team of designers, developers, and everyday WordPress users serving as testers, WordPress 2 is a remarkable leap for those who blog with their mobile device. Sure, we’ve got a great new UI and some handy new features. But we’ve also made the app work with more setups than ever before, eliminating dreaded errors for many of you who might have had trouble before. Our many thanks go out to the nearly 100 people who helped create version 2.0 by testing and reviewing the app. Thanks again for all the help and guidance you’ve given us during this process. Like this: Like Loading...
Why Facebook, Twitter, Google Wave Still Bow to King E-Mail The Wall Street Journal published a comprehensive feature Oct. 12 on the wane of e-mail's reign, thanks to the rise of Facebook, Twitter and collaboration platforms such as Google Wave. There are many, many fine points in the piece, which fairly covers the increase in adoption of social networks and the proliferation of real-time Web services and the filters and tags that help us govern them. Unfortunately, it's not a fair reflection of the world outside Silicon Valley, where hype browbeats the public and wills products into popularity. "We all still use e-mail, of course. E-mail may be boring, but, sorry, it remains the king of communications. "I'll stick with e-mail-write when I want, as often (or not ) as I want, to whom I want privately. Facebook, Twitter and Google Wave will all have their place for instances where the immediacy and intimacy of real time are required.
Get That Vaccine, It's Going to Be a Bad Flu Year - O' Map: International Co-circulation of 2009 H1N1 and Seasonal Influenza (As of October 9, 2009; posted October 9, 2009, 3:00 PM ET) All signs point to a bad flu year and it’s going to be primarily from H1N1 (swine flu). H1N1 now accounts for over 50% of the fu cases around the world. The CDC map above shows the spread of the virus across the world. Google Flu Trends tracks flu-related search queries (Radar post). Google just expanded Flu Trends to include 16 countries and 37 languages. If the maps and trend lines aren’t scary enough here’s the CDC’s update: Visits to doctors for influenza-like illness (ILI) continued to increase in the United States, and overall, are higher than levels expected for this time of the year.Total influenza hospitalization rates for laboratory-confirmed influenza are higher than expected for this time of year for adults and children. There are two vaccines that are circulating in the US. (Hat tip to Ramez Naam for the CDC map)
Invite a friend to Google Voice (Cross-posted from the Google Voice Blog) Since the debut of Google Voice, our early users have shared lots of feedback that has led to some exciting new features, like the ability to receive SMS messages via email and the option to change your Google Voice number. But one of the most frequent requests we've received is for the ability to share Google Voice with friends and family. Starting today, we're beginning to give out invitations to Google Voice users. If you currently use Google Voice, over the next few weeks, you'll see an "Invite a friend" link appear on the left-hand side of your inbox. We'll be rolling out these invitations gradually, so don't worry if you don't see your invitations immediately. If you don't have an account yet, you can request a Google Voice invitation at google.com/voiceinvite.