Google Wave Aims to Unite All Web Communication
Imagine if email, chat, and microblogging could all be rolled into one protocol with a seamless interface. No, not a proprietary service or a packaged application or a clunky mashup or a widget pileup — a singular open protocol. That’s the promise of Google Wave, unveiled at the second day of the Google I/O conference. If you’re up for a little information overload, TechCrunch and Mashable have the details on this potentially disruptive new way to unite synchronous and asynchronous online communication.
Right now people email, ping and tweet each other. If Google Wave catches on, will people just wave each other?
Google Pwns Microsoft on Chrome and Hotmail
You have got to love how brutally competing developers slam each other. When Google released a patch to make Chrome work with Microsoft Hotmail, Googler Matt Cutts chided Microsoft on being slow to fix the incompatibility. “Normally you think of Web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter,” goes Cutts’ cutting remark. Click here to continue reading “Google Pwns Microsoft on Chrome and Hotmail”…
