What is Google Wave

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.

What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document.
People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared.
Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live.
With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Some key technologies in Google Wave
Real-time collaboration	Natural language tools	Extending Google Wave
Concurrency control technology lets all people on a wave edit rich media at the same time. Watch the tech video	Server-based models provide contextual suggestions and spelling correction. Watch the tech video	Embed waves in other sites or add live social gadgets, thanks to Google Wave APIs.

How to say greetings in Russian

'Hi' (informal greeting): "Привет!" (pree-VjET)
'Hello' (polite informal, singular form): "Здравствуй!" (ZDRAV-stvuy)
'Hello' (more polite or plural form): "Здравствуйте!" (ZDRAV-stvuy-tjeh)
'Good day': "Добрый день!" (DOB-ryy djenj)
'Good morning': "Доброе утро!" (DOB-rah-ye UT-rah) / (Dobre Utra)
'Good evening': "Добрый вечер!" (DOB-ryy VjEH-cher)

Social Recommendations App for Facebook/ iPhone/ MySpace

We have been thinking about creating a social recommendations platform that enables users to find and recommend local businesses and service providers together with their friends. We will create Apps to hook into Facebook, MySpace and iPhone.

Nokia's Booklet 3G

Nokia is officially jumping on the netbook bandwagon with the "Booklet 3G" — an Intel/Microsoft-based netbook that promises 12-hour battery life, a weight of 2.75 pounds, and apparently built-in GPS. The "3G" portion of the name indicates a wireless data connection as well.

Actual specs and details will be announced by Nokia on September 2nd, but it’s believed that the Booklet 3G will run Windows 7. The 12-hour battery life is interesting, too, as that’s a full four hours longer than most netbooks currently on the market.

Here’s a video... w00t:

Self-Realization - Answer to all our problems

I believe that our true nature is far more powerful, creative and loving than we could ever imagine, and the recognition of this is readily available to each and every one of us. The realization of our true nature transforms everything - our relationships, our work and our organizations; and is, I believe, the answer to all our problems.

There is nothing as practical as this Self-realization. It nourishes us, heals us, inspires us and gives us certain confidence and unlimited energy to accomplish anything our heart desires. And it does this with an incredible joy and light-heartedness.

How to Monetize your blog

Follow this link for a few books which have some really great tips and strategies on how to Monetize your blog and some which will help you working with Blogger.

Axure for Building Wireframes, Prototypes and Specifications

Axure RP is a wireframing, prototyping, and specification tool that allows you to design applications and websites faster and easier than with your current tools.

For our web development projects, developing web site wireframes and information architecture is the first step in the process. In the past we have used OmniGraffle, MockUpScreens, Mind Manager and Microsoft Visio as the wireframing and prototyping tools.

Recently we have started using a tool called Axure RP for creating wireframes and prototypes. Axure is a tool that is specifically designed for creating web site wireframes. As a result, all of the tool bar elements are strictly catered towards the web design world. We really enjoy working with the Axure for a number reasons:

1) Drag and Drop Elements

Using Axure, a web designer can easily add form elements and place holders to the page. Since all of the tool bar elements are designed for creating web site wireframes, there is no need to search for the right icon. This is the case for Visio since there are so many different elements available on the tool bar.

2) Export Wireframes as HTML

The wireframes created in Axure can be exported as HTML pages. This makes it possible for clients to easily review the wireframes using a web browser. There is no need to download any PDF file. Also, the form elements can be simulated in the web browser such that when you click on a link in the wireframes, it will actually lead you to the appropriate page.

Overall, we find Axure to be a really user-friendly and effective wireframing tool.

A different perspective at life...

I believe that our true nature is far more powerful, creative and loving than we could ever imagine, and the recognition of this is readily available to each and every one of us. The realisation of our true nature transforms everything - our relationships, our work and our organisations; and is, I believe, the answer to all our problems.

There is nothing as practical as this Self-realisation. It nourishes us, heals us, inspires us and gives us certain confidence and unlimited energy to accomplish anything our heart desires. And it does this with an incredible joy and light-heartedness.

Twitter To Add Real-Time Location Feature

Twitter today publicly unveiled efforts to add location features to its app programing interface (API). The new code will let developers of apps, including on the web and on GPS-aware mobile devices like the iPhone, add the latitude and longitude coordinates of the user with any tweet. While developers of apps like Tweetie or Twinkle have often added location data themselves, the new feature would make it possible to see nearby tweets in any app.

This can be a very powerful new feature. Just imagine if a friend tweets something and you are able to know their location when they did it.

There are no shortage of location-based services attempting to take off right now, but Twitter already has a huge user base and depending on how developers use this new API, Twitter location could replace or bolster many of them. And that’s good news because the main problem that many of these location-based services have is a lack of users.

Company co-founder Biz Stone has stressed privacy and that positioning will be strictly optional, requiring that developers or users agree to sending their locations with posts. A timetable isn't yet available for the release, but Twitter plans to deliver the API to outside developers before adding it to its own desktop and mobile-oriented web pages.

Twouble with Twitters: SuperNews!

I was having a conversation with my colleagues about the "value" of Twitter this morning and we went from technology behind Twitter to the social and business (50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business / Explaining the Impact of Twitter) impact.

Someone pointed to this video on YouTube.... its funny!!!