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Day 2 with Google Wave

Impressions after more partipants have gotten their invites. Wave is a huge mess once everyone tries to talk (not unlike a real life meeting). You can also hijack a person’s message if you want to so that can be rather distracting. Still not sure how it’s going to work unless we work on a project using [...]

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Day 1 with Google Wave

Managed to get Google Wave access yesterday and have been testing out the various features. An area of interest to me is how to best reduce the UI clutter of various windows and incoming streams as I keep up to date with news and try to work at the same time.
The concept of waves to mash [...]

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Google Voice… Invited but not available!

Just got a alert in Gmail “You’ve been invited to Google Voice” and I thought the policy had changed to allow registrations outside of US. Unfortunately scrolling down further stating its only available for sign up in the US.
If you haven’t already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current [...]

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Battle of the Mashup Editors (Yahoo Pipes – 1, Microsoft Popfly – 0, Google Mashup Editor – 0)

When Yahoo Pipes first got released, I didn’t really think much of it and didn’t even attempt to look at the mashups being created. Then Microsoft got into the fray with Popfly and I tried my luck and got an invite into the Silverlight creation. Next came Google with their Mashup Editor and since I [...]

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Google goes offline (for Apps!)

Finally! A way to get Google Apps offline. I’m an avid user of Gmail and GReader and also often need to travel around. My complaint with web apps are that they need connectivity ALL the time! With a flaky M1 Broadband modem, it is just bearable but when it goes offline for no reason, I [...]

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Wondering when the next Page Rank update will be? Take a look at its history!

I was doing some updates to the website and wondered when the next Page Rank update would be and so started doing a quick search for this information. Came across the following site which lists down the trend of the Google Page Rank update. Pretty interesting results.
As of May 12th, there has not been a Toolbar PR [...]

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