Today, Google announced a revolutionary new product that might just revolutionize the communications industry.
The ideology of Google Wave is to tie in all forms of communication and collaboration– IM, Email, Video, Pictures, Documents, etc. Into a single integrated environment–accessible completely from a browser using HTML 5. Google Wave will also be extendable and open source… the source will be hosted and maintained on Google Code (a sort of equivalent to SourceForge.net).
Unfortunately, Google Wave is not yet available to the general public… but Wave is slated to be available for download sometime "later this year".
[Google Wave] overview
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Today when searching YouTube for some videos on DNA Transcription, I noticed that the famous red YouTube logo 
was changed to a new green
logo. Is YouTube (being owned by Google) now changing their logos in the spirit of holidays/major events like Google has been doing for quite some time now?
Let us know what you think in the comments!
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Today, Google tentatively launches a new service called Google Voice, a powerful service that allows you to unify all of your phones and phone numbers into one phone number, one voicemail box, and with many other handy features (such as the ability to block certain phone numbers, conference calling, voicemail transcription, and more). Unfortunately, however, Google Voice is currently only in closed beta—that is, it is only available for existing Google Grand Central users, but don’t fret to soon—Google says it will have GVoice ready “in a matter of weeks”.
While you’re waiting, here’s a brief list of features I like must about Google Voice:
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Blocking Calls (yay, no more phone soliciting?)
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Phone Forwarding (the ability to make decide which phone rings and which phones don’t)
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Call Switch (means I can switch phones in the middle of a conversation!)
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Forward, download, transcribe voicemails (it says it all…)
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Free calls to U.S. numbers (…and with international calls at about 2 cents? WOW!)
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So what do you think? Do you think Google is getting to know too much? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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Yes, this post came late, but for those of us who don’t know already, Google has officially discontinued their Google Notebook product. Admittedly, I have never been much of a fan of Google Notebook, but all the same, I wish Google didn’t discontinue R&D on the product, because it has really great potential.
NOTE THAT IF YOU USE GOOGLE NOTEBOOK, YOUR DATA WILL NOT BE LOST! THERE JUST WON’T BE ANY UPDATES TO THE APP.
So what do you think? What are your feelings about Google’s announcement? Tell us in the comments!
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