Tag Archives: Google

Playing with Google Wave

I’ve had Google Wave for a few days now.

Without being cheesy, this is one amazing collaboration tool that may change everything between email and chat.

It is still in early stages and the more I use it, the more I’ll find uses for it, the more it’ll change the way we interact. More to come.

Here is a public wave I started, using  Wavr, a usable plugin I found on the WordPress galaxy:

[wave id="googlewave.com!w+MOY0hOzkB"]

You are free to join the conversation. I hope more users will join the gWave soon.

Monday’s Tune: José González & Radiohead

Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats Get Adobe Flash player

Jose Gonzalez - Veneer Cover

José González - Veneer

After a week break for some good times and some sun in Israel, another Monday is upon us.

Today’s main feature is José González, a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter of Argentine descent.

The song ‘Heartbeats’, from his first album, Veneer, is a cover of a song by fellow Swede duo The Knife.

The special for today is Readiohead‘s latest video clip, ‘House of Cards’ [from the album In Rainbows], which was done without lights or cameras, but with the use of a 3d scanner. Released last week, this is a unique collaboration between programmers and musicians, and with Google Code as the Host.

Enjoy!

The perfect match

While looking at US presidential candidate John McCain and wife Cindy, I came to realise that they look similar to another beautiful couple – Battlestar Galactica XO Saul Tigh and wife Ellen.

While looking for the best image on Google, I came across another blogger, who had the same idea few months ago.

John and Cindy McCain

Soul and Ellen Tigh

I’m happy I’m not alone on this, but acctually – who cares?

Taming the Information Monster

It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage.

People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it.

Now these companies that created the big information beast will find ways to sell their solutions to other companies. Smart asses.

Link: NY Times

Google donates to Yahoo! [updated]

Big news this morning: 

Yahoo and arch rival Google said on Thursday they had entered a non-exclusive partnership on search advertising expected to add as much as $800 million in annual revenue.

This deal will give Yahoo! some money to breathe and will take Microsoft off their back. The real reason behind it is to give Yahoo! a bit more time to find a better partner and learn about my idea. 

In short: Adobe and Yahoo! should strike a winning deal. 

[I probably need to write a better proposal... now that time is on our side]

 

** Update **

Incremental Blogger suggests that “Yahoo should acquire AllTop.com along with Guy Kawasaki“. 

This is not a bad idea in its own right - directories are part of the DNA of Yahoo and Kawasaki does twits everyone with his AllTop evangelism. Advertising is maybe an answer, but its not the future. It could help Yahoo momentarily [like the Google donation], but it wouldn’t make it different and kicking.

We need something bigger here, something futuristic, something that will take Yahoo out of the miseries of Web 2.0 and into Web 3.0 [I'm afraid that Web 3.0 is going to be like World War III, but that's a different post].

Adobe, with their technological control over the future of the market, and with their stronghold of holding creative people in the balls, can trigger that move, and hey – every company in the world uses Adobe products. It  will give Yahoo the leverage they need, and a lot of it.

To my original post - Adobe + Yahoo = Web 3.0

 

The truth is out there

The truth about social networks and webmails is starting to come out.

Few days ago Zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) wrote about her friend Bob who had bad encounters with Google:

Earlier this week, Bob received a notice that there was a spam problem in his Orkut community. The message was in English and it looked legitimate and so he clicked on it. He didn’t realize that he’d fallen into a phisher’s net until it was too late. His account was hijacked for god-knows-what-purposes until his account was blocked and deleted. He contacted Google’s customer service and their response basically boiled down to “that sucks, we can’t restore anything, sign up for a new account.” Boom! No more email, no more calendar, no more Orkut, no more gChat history, no more Blogger, no more anything connected to his Google account.

Yesterday an article in the NY-Times told us that Facbook

…offers users the option to deactivate their accounts, Facebook servers keep copies of the information in those accounts indefinitely. Indeed, many users who have contacted Facebook to request that their accounts be deleted have not succeeded in erasing their records from the network.

Here is a video that tell us the truth about Facebook, from the research I did myself, most of it is true. Frightening.

and here is one that tell the truth about Google. Scary!

Corporate Connection (2003) is now here

Corporate Connection

Corporate Connection (2003) is now part of my blog, and not only on Flickr. You are welcome to visit it, interact with it, and leave some comments too.

With the help of MapLib, I was able to mash my image with the technology of Google Maps. But this is only semi-interactive.

Lately I’ve started to think about the next version of this creation. I believe (and hope) its going to be very interesting and not so far from now.