Google Wave coming, could change communications as we know it

via DVICE by CharlieWhite on 7/24/09



In case you haven't heard, those Google geniuses are at it again. In September, you'll be able to browse to Google Wave, called a "personal communications and collaboration tool." This open-source, web-based wonder will let you combine your e-mail, instant messaging and social networking onto one personalized page on the web. Soon, you'll be communicating in "waves."

After the jump, take a look at the ten-minute presentation (it's well worth your time), and you'll see what makes Wave so revolutionary. It simply changes the way email, instant messages and social networking work, and gives you new ways to communicate with each other. It even lets you share files by dragging and dropping, and give any of your contacts access to them. It also works on mobile devices. This is going to be big:

Google Wave is a Mix of Chat, IM, Twitter and Google Docs in Real-Time

via Gizmodo by matt buchanan on 5/28/09



I have the feeling Google Wave is something you're gonna have to use to really understand: In the simplest terms, it's a live chatroom with a spread of documents, photos and/or videos, where you can reply to any part of any message or anything that's shared, and it's all real-time.



The idea is to drag email and IM into real-time—so it's free-wheeling mesh of Twitter, IM, Friendfeed really, any other kind of service presenting semi-real-time stuff in a stream. But in Google Wave, you can share and collaborate on projects, and all of this is mashed together at once, so it might be the ultimate service for people with ADD, or enterprise looking to simulate the feeling of 10 people standing around a desk scattered with a bunch of projects, but you're all able to work on any of them simultaneously while you're also whispering to the cute girl across the table about the new sushi place around the corner. You start a wave with any message or photo or whatever, and you bring people into the discussion, and then they can bring other people in as well (unless you block it or start kicking people out) so it's as public or private as you want it to be.

It's easy to see why Google would jump in here—real-time is the next iteration of the internets, and everybody's been obsessed with it since Twitter (look no further than Facebook). Not only does Wave elevate the collaborative and conversational aspect of real-time, Google's smartly pimping it from the app side too, pushing for apps that use and run within a wave, since a service is now really only as good as it is as a platform. At least, I think that's what this is all about. Maybe it's just a surfing chatroom. [Google Wave, Cnet]

Twitter invadează micile ecrane. Site-ul de socializare lansează un serial TV

via Antena3 - Hightech on 5/26/09




Site-ul de socializare Twitter lansează primul serial TV. Potrivit Reuters, brandul va fi încorporat în acţiunea show-ului.

Serialul se află în stadiu de proiect. Show-ul, creat de romanciera Amy Ephron, nu beneficiează încă de un nume.

Se ştie, însă, că protagoniştii vor fi oameni obişnuiţi care urmăresc celebrităţi.

Este primul proiect de acest fel lansat de Twitter. Reprezentanţii site-ului de socializare au semnat deja parteneriate cu două firme de producţie.

Reţeaua Twitter este utilizată de peste şase milioane de persoane. Ea a fost lansată în 2006 şi permite utilizatorilor să trimită gratuit mesaje scurte care nu depăşesc 140 de caractere.

36 Hours of Traveling Twitterers, Visualized

via Gizmodo by John Herrman on 5/12/09


Artist Jer Thorp has harnessed the internet's oversharing tendencies for good, compiling 36 hours worth of "just landed in..." tweets into one beautiful 3D visualization.

Titled "Just Landed", Thorp's video maps the probable flights of recently-arrived Twitterers over a course of 36 hours, assuming the home locations listed in their profiles as the takeoff points, and their tweeted landing location as their destinations.

This is textbook data porn, but it's also a reminder of how mainstream Twitter is becoming. The pace of the visualization isn't immediately mind-blowing, but keep in mind that these mapped tweets had to fit the exact syntax that Thorp was looking for, were almost definitely sent from mobile phone and had to have been deemed postworthy in the first place. This is just the tiny tip of the vanity iceberg. Best viewed in HD. [BLPRNT via BoingBoing Gadgets]

Some Tweets Really Belong on Twitter

via Gizmodo by Adam Frucci on 4/29/09

Dan decided to try Twittering in real life. And by that, he means standing in crowded areas of NYC and yelling his Tweets out loud. Hilarity ensues. Also, hey, follow me on Twitter!

[CollegeHumor]