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Today the interwebs is dominated by news and excitement surrounding the official launch of Google Wave.
In a nutshell, Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files.
As of this writing , I am hoping to receive an invite from my fellow Google users.
Click this link for an in-depth, complete guide about Google Wave
There where rumor circulating around the the interwebs about Facebook borrowing some of Friendfeed features. Then finally news that Friendfeed is now officially acquired by Facebook.
The biggest win here for Facebook is the FriendFeed team, which includes an all-star cast of ex-Googlers. Perhaps best known of these is Paul Buchheit, who is responsible for creating Gmail, pioneering some of Google’s early (and incredibly lucrative) advertising products, and coining Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto. Other ex-Googler co-founders include Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh.
And so begins the next step in Facebook’s assault on Twitter.
In many industries, grey hair and wrinkles confer a certain amount of wisdom, knowledge in gravitas. In the world of computing, it’s the absolute opposite; the huge success enjoyed by web entrepreneurs like 24-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shows that youthful ambition is the order of the day.
And so it is with the founders of Twitterfall, Tom Brearley and David Somers, two 19-year-old computer science students at the University of York who have made one of the best Twitter tools on the market.
Twitter, the microblogging service beloved by geeks, celebrities and politicians, is a fantastic communication platform, in which users send messages of 140 characters or less ruminating on the things that interest them. It provides a fascinating real-time insight into the hot topics of the day, and has played a key role in many recent breaking news stories, such as the Mumbai terrorist attacks and Hudson plane crash, where eyewitnesses provided a rolling account of events through Twitter.
Google has launched a new feature that allows users to edit, delete, and comment on search results and share them with other users.
The new tool, called SearchWiki, is now available worldwide in all of Google’s English-language search services.
It allows users to rate and comment on search results, and see how others have rated theirs, adding a social networking dimension to the services provided by Google.
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Recently Mypace has made some improvements on their user interface by adapting a Facebook UI style. Personally its better than the classic look and it looked more “Web 2.0″ than its previouse UI style. Though users can still use the Classic UI style.