GeekApproach

I really do enjoy MythBusters. I wish I had more time to watch it, but in an already jam-packed lineup I just can’t spare the brain space at the moment. Their PSA about how to prevent the spread of swine flu (H1N1 or the “heinie” as my mother in law called it (doesn’t “Heine” really mean Heineken?)) is fairly effective. Watch:

I recently recieved an invitation to join Google Wave, their new online collaboration tool.  Problem is, they didn’t really give me anyone else to Wave to, which is a profoundly depressing feeling.  First off, I’m robert.entenman@googlewave.com if anyone wants to add me as a fellow Wave-r.

But more to the point here, Wave is actually a pretty nifty idea, but I’m not sure how useful it will be outside of the small scale project.  The system allows you to start generating material and inviting collaborators.  The idea is that there is no distinction between what we’re sending out over the Internet be it an email, text, tweet, IM or whatever.  It’s all data that could be combined into one interface.  As you’re typing into the Wave, in real-time your collaborators see the letters appearing in real time in theirs.

One of the coolest things I saw in the launch video was of 19 different people typing in different languages and the text was real-time back-end translated on the fly to my native language on my screen.  Collaboration across many boundaries and borders is very slick stuff!  Images and documents are persistent meaning you can effectively have “Track Changes” on all the time and go infinitely back into the past to see your Wave as it once was.  You can invite folks mid-Wave and depending on your privacy settings, they could be forbidden to see things in the Wave that happened before they were even invited!

And yet, I can’t seem to come up with a single creative instance of this service.  If I worked in an environment where I need to collaborate with others on a document, sure… but most of the time I’m the information holder and I’m creating the documents to send out to the team.  In that regard, I need to hold the keys to the master document, and have no collaborators.

Maybe a school project?  How about a lightweight presentation? Code?  Dunno.  Check it out for yourself here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQw

• Apple selling more tablets every 2 weeks as Motorola will all year
  TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
  I find this sad actually. I keep looking for decent competitors to the iPad, and yet aside from the recent revamp of the Galaxy Tab....
  Motorola announced yesterday that it expects to sell anywhere from 1.3 to 1.5 million Xoom Android tablets for the year. By comparison, Apple figures disclosed during the third quarter financial call show that the company sells that at least that many iPad 2s every two weeks. The Xoom was widely expected by Motorola to be an "iPad-killer," and the company was the first to market with an Android tablet. Unfortunately, being first meant that there were very few apps available for the device, that the Xoom didn't ship with support for 4G LTE, and that it isn't running the Android 3.x "Honeycomb" operating system found on competing Android tablets. Not only is Motorola selling fewer Xooms than expected, but the devices are being sold at a discount to clear out inventories in anticipation of new Motorola tablets rolling out later this year. The company is placing its future hopes on tablets and smartphones that will operate on Verizon's fast 4G LTE network. In the meantime, Apple is steamrolling over the company that used to be the undisputed leader in mobile technology, and doing it without the one feature that Motorola touted in its 2011 Super Bowl ad -- Adobe Flash.Apple selling more tablets every 2 weeks as Motorola will all year originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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