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This week Google plans to release 100,000 invitations to Wave, their new in-browser tool.
Google Wave is a hybrid of e-mail, chat, messaging and project management software that aims to elevate Web collaboration. With Wave, Google is trying to combine the favorite parts of many different Web tools.
Access to reams of Twitter data seems to bring out the inner geek in many people. Consider the work of Dan Zarella, who has analyzed over 40 million retweets to see what makes a tweet worthy of retweeting. This is not something most people would put as much time into, but thanks to Zarella’s work we have some recipes for retweetable tweets.
If others retweeting your content is important to you, Zarella has discovered some interesting insights:
This was bound to happen. Robo.to came out of private beta in August, allowing users to add a four-second video to their Twitter updates. The service enables people to enhance the conversation with video updates on a topic. Have a comment about Kanye West? Now you can show your real feelings.
Facebook just crossed the 300 million user mark and shows no sign of slowing down. Within a week it’s user base will be larger than the population of the United States (307 million).
This fits nicely with Facebook’s strategy of wanting to be your single source for connecting the entire world. Whether your Facebook use is business or personal, this growth has implications:
If you’re not familiar with Facebook Lite, it’s a more simple, faster loading version of Facebook created in response to criticism about Facebook’s occasionally slow performance. You can see it at http://lite.facebook.com. Any Facebook member can use Lite by logging in as before. You’ll find all your information and friends are still there. No changes there and no need to sign up again.
While the reviews I’ve seen have been positive, and I agree it does load faster, I’m wondering if this is a smart move. Not from a user perspective, but from a business perspective.
Based on this post on Wired.com, I believe we have a new breed of spammer roaming the Internet. This one is working Facebook. They’re hired to build the friend count of client companies so that their messages can be shared with larger audiences. I may have seen at least one of these attempts on my account.
Where were you on Sept. 2, 1969?
Some of us were working, some schooling and some drooling. Some only a twinkle in our parents’ eyes. In White Lake, N.Y., Woodstock had taken place in August; Terry Bradshaw celebrated 21 years of age; and The Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” was number one on the radio. Oh, and the Internet came to life at UCLA when two computers had a brief, yet historic, discussion.
A co-worker sent me this New York Times link saying he thought it was interesting. I consider this not only interesting but also the future of world news vs. local news. For fun, let’s label these macronews (news across the world) and micronews (news down the street).
Have you ever wanted to drive a supercomputer? Now you can by browsing to WolframAlpha.com.
What is WolframAlpha? The Web site calls itself a “computational knowledge engine.” That’s a mouthful and doesn’t really answer the “What is it?” question. Its closest cousin would be a search engine, but it really does more thinking than just spitting out links.
