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Google: Google+ Doesn't Mean The End Of Buzz, Orkut (Yet)

With the success of Google+, the company must eventually decide what to do with Buzz and Orkut--either shut them down and port their users, or risk creating a fragmented social ecosystem.READ»

Google I/O

O'Reilly will join 5,500 techies at Google I/O to talk web development and hear Google product announcements, like Google Wave in 2009 and Google TV in 2010. TUE, MAY 10 Google I/OREAD»

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Google Wave, Poorly Understood and Underused, Dies in Infancy

Do you know what Google Wave is? Have you ever used it? More than once? If you can answer yes to all three, you're in the minority. And that's why the company killed it.READ»

How Google Wave Got Its Groove Back

Google Wave, the real-time collaboration Web application that debuted to oohs and ahhs from developers at last year's Google I/O conference, met with a whole lot of "what do I use this for?" from actual users of its invitation-only ...READ»

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Does Privacy on Facebook, Google, and Twitter Even Matter?

Farhad Manjoo discovers the problem with Web privacy -- and it's us.READ»

Gina Trapani, Project Director at Expert Labs

Needing a practical way to organize this ever-increasing feedback, Trapani created the software that would evolve into ThinkTank, a free, open-source Web application. Expert Labs, a nonprofit lab affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, partnered with ThinkTank and brought Trapani on as project director.READ»

The Real Strength of Google Buzz? It's a Giant Collaborative Sandbox

There's plenty of buzz, good and bad, about Google's newest product, but Giovanni Calabro sees it for what it is: A revolutionary collaboration tool.READ»

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Work Smart: Three Ways to Use Google Wave in Your Business

Google Wave is an exciting new tool that combines the best features from email, instant messenger, forums, and wiki’s into a single interface. In Wave, a group of people can simultaneously edit the same document in their web ...READ»

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More Details of Mozilla's Wave-like Raindrop Leak

Raindrop, Firefox creator Mozilla's version of Google Wave, has revealed a little more of her comely form. Images of the open-source messaging platform are there for everyone to see on Mozilla employee Andy Chung's Flickr page. As ...READ»

Google's Wave Might Find Its Real Home Inside Company Servers

Today it looks like Google's expanding Wave to external servers. If your company has an internal communication problem. If no one else can help. Maybe you can try ... the Wave team. The news has popped up over at TheNextWeb, ...READ»

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Google Wave Theater: Pulp Fiction

Yes, Google Wave is this entertaining--if only you could get an invite. [Warning, foul language ahead.] READ»

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The First Google Wave Add-on Comes to Firefox - If You Only Had an Invite

An enterprising coder has already written a Google Wave add-on for the Firefox browser. (Now if only you had your Wave invite.)READ»

Why Google Wave Will Fail

I should note at the top of this post that I have not received an invitation for Google Wave.  I haven't seen the platform in action - other than a few screen shots that various bloggers and media have shared.  I haven't ...READ»

Developers Start to Surf Google Wave, And Love It

Weeks ago, when Google Wave was first announced, we explained why you should be terrified of it. Now Google's opened Wave up to developers, and their first impressions are being published. Wave, it seems, is a wild ride. If you've ...READ»