When it comes to Google’s pioneer ideas and solutions, you can never have enough. Every couple weeks you hear of a new speculation or a beta version of a new service they are preparing to launch. Well, the most recent promise I have come across is Google Wave, a new service that combines e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, document sharing, wikis, and multimedia content to provide a seamless communications platform.
As of yet, only 100,000 people were invited to play with the new toy, but Macworld lists 5 reasons why we should be looking forward to this new creation:
- Single point of access
- Next-generation communication
- Real-time sharing and collaboration
- A life of its own
- It’s in the cloud
Do you think this is going to change how people communicate, or this is just another parallel universe which only a few of the tech-savvy people will be actually using?
Personally, I will give it a try for sure, but I wonder if this will become the default internet messaging tool of the majority in the long-term future.
Tags: communication, e-mail, Google, internet, wave
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I watched Christina Clausen’s entertaining and enlightening documentary “The Universe of Keith Haring.” See the trailer. Before watching the film I knew Haring only by his powerful, iconic images…I had no idea how prolific, committed and funny he was – there is significant footage in the film of Haring painting in different locations all over the world – he believed in accessibility to art (I like that). The speed and confidence with which he could lay down lines was incredible and his ability to capture so much with simple line and blocks of pure colour…it’s the kind of stuff that looks so simple at first glance but becomes more complex and compelling as it starts to sink in. It’s well worth a watch both for the wonderful art, quirky yet accurate take on political issues and a lesson on the power of social networking…Andy Warhol, Madonna, Grace Jones, and the list goes on. 90 minutes well spent.
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Ok, it’s just a silly little thing but after looking at countless law firm websites in search of my “picks” for best Canadian law firm websites as fodder for an article to be authored by Luigi Benneton and soon to appear in The National…I’d had enough of gavels, columns, scales and blindfolded statues for the day (maybe even the whole month). I admit to being overly sensitive when it comes to the clichéd (dare I say hackneyed – yes, yes. I DO dare) images associated with “the law” to the point where I feel like I’ve had aversion therapy à la A Clockwork Orange. So… imagine looking at sites featuring the heinous iconography from sea to shining sea for a whole bloody day and you about get how I was feeling. Funny thing…even some sites that had great content, interesting imagery elsewhere and incorporated blogs or podcasts seemed to fall prey to GCS (Gavel & Column Syndrome). Anyway, I will stop whining now. In the course of taking a break I decided to Google something but I missed the “G” on Google and this is what popped up. For whatever reason…it broke the tension and I could blink once more.
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