Google Mini Wave Quietly Washes Ashore

Have you ever received an e-mail with critical information about an event but an unrelated subject line? If you didn't flag it and needed it a few weeks or months later, you could end up wasting quite a bit of time digging for it.  Solving this problem by keeping all related conversations in one chronologically organized spot was the genius behind Google Wave, the social networking platform Google launched with much fanfare last year. While many saw its … [Read more...]

Google Wave to Live on as Apache Wave

Remember Google Wave?  Last year I was pretty excited to get an invite to join what was suppose to be Google’s hot new social networking platform. With Google Wave, collaborators share—in real time or over time—e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking merged into topical waves (kind of a cross between chatting and threaded discussions on a blog). Like many people, I didn't end up doing much with it (in my case due to a lack of collaborators), so I … [Read more...]