It’s been a couple of weeks now since we got our first looks at Google Wave, and the dust is starting to settle. In the process of the dust settling for me, I really started question why we aren’t already actively using a key component of Google Wave on the web. The component I am referring to is being able to comment inline (or contextually) on web content such as blog articles.
Why is this something that isn’t around already? Surely it’s useful. Isn’t it?
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Google’s App Engine has some scheduled maintenance pretty soon (June 10th (Wednesday) at 4 PM Pacific Time). During this time, both datastore writes and the memcache will be disabled. Now, I have no problem with this - all systems need to have maintenance completed on them, and in general some of this maintenance will involve service disruption.
What I do have a problem with is the suggested way of dealing with the outage (see the full post for more details).
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So Google announced Google Wave a few days ago and it’s a very interesting and great re-thinking of email and web-based communication and collaboration in general. In terms of personal use, I think it is great. Additionally, the potential for use in the corporate world is absolutely immense. One of the big barriers to corporate adoption I see is the question “Who owns the wave?”.
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One of my strong beliefs is that there are enough good ideas in the world to go around, and thus sharing those ideas early is a good thing. That is the whole premise surrounding my idea of Concept Buzz and it would appear the folks over at clusterify have a similar belief.
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I’m a big fan of DabbleDb. It’s a slick product and simple enough that anyone should be able to dive in there and start building an online database. For those of you who are interested DabbleDb supports both free and paid plans for their service, with the only conditions on a free plan is that the data is made publicly available on a Creative Commons licence.
DabbleDb with regards to application integration, however, has it’s limitations. YQL can help to make the whole task that bit easier.
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As part of the Global Mood project I am currently working on, I feel one way of allowing people to specify their mood is by using an x,y coordinate on a 2d graph (mood really doesn’t seem like a one-dimensional thing to me). I have my first design done for the mood selector widget (just an image at this stage) and really need some feedback.
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I was surfing around the blogs of some Australian consultants recently and came across The OpenHub in Melbourne. This is a coworking environment in Melbourne which sounds like a really great place to be if you are an independent developer or consultant.
The coworking movement looks really interesting to me - eventually I hope to go out on my own and create a successful startup, and what better place to spend the infant years of your startup that doing that with like-minded individuals.
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Online video is something that helps to make a product or website standout from the rest. Whether it is a screencast tutorial or a promotional video for a product, the presence of video can help your offering stand-out from the crowd.
Stupeflix is a site that enables you to automatically generate video from a series of images, and apply text and a backing track to make a video that is quite compelling.
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