http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles_controller.rb/tag?tag=wave en-us 40 Simplicity, Usability, Productivity, Code, Design, Business and more <p>One word: brilliant.</p> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xcxF9oz9Cu0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xcxF9oz9Cu0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <p>RSS readers may need to click <a href="http://joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/10/16/google-wave-meets-pulp-fiction">here</a> to see the video.</p> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:29:00 -0500 urn:uuid:2a8646cf-e944-4873-b5f4-af7083c80c0c bordalix http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/10/16/google-wave-meets-pulp-fiction google wave <p>Google will launch in a few months a revolutionary new product, named <a href="http://wave.google.com/">Google Wave</a>. Last time I got so excited about a Google product was on Gmail's launch. But what is Google Wave? Via the <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Google_Waves_Goodbye_to_E-Mail__Welcomes_Real-Time_Communication">Webmonkey blog</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Wave is a web-based application that marries multiple forms of communication and collaboration, including chat, mail and wikis, into a unified interface. Everything inside Wave happens in real time: You can even see a comment being made as the person is typing it, character-by-character</p></blockquote> <p>The <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Google_Waves_Goodbye_to_E-Mail__Welcomes_Real-Time_Communication">Webmonkey blog post</a> also has a screenshot of the service - since some lucky souls are already beta testing it - which I proudly stolen:</p> <a href="http://joaobordalo.com/files/waveuismall.jpeg"<img width="440" src="http://joaobordalo.com/files/waveuismall.jpeg"></a> <p>That's a terrific productivity tool, instantaneous (latency of low milliseconds) and licensed as open source. It becomes now clear why Google isn't interested in Twitter.</p> Thu, 28 May 2009 13:24:00 -0500 urn:uuid:9c6dcbe5-cb14-4b1b-98f3-fa2830f493a8 bordalix http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/05/28/google-wave google wave