Google Wave Invites | Free Giveaway !

What is Google Wave?

Having all the latest technologies
in hand sometimes make people confused. What if all those trend setting solutions come under one umbrella? Won’t you really appreciate a single solution which can manage emails, instant messaging, wikis and the latest sensation social networking?This is what Google Wave is in fact.

The Legend always comes up with revolutionary products. Google fans know the fact and expect the best from them. It is not an exception here also. Even amidst of integrating all the so called stuff into one packet, Google Wave come with some other stunning features such as spell checker and translation to 40 languages. Other features, watch the introduction of Wave here.

Though the product is designed as next generation product, it has been a must to have product among those who are very particular about having all the latest applications
. The unbelievable response from the developers around the globe is a clear indication of the fact that the globe has accepted Google Wave as part of their growth and development.

Apart from the present style of sending messages and their replies, showing the entire thread of previous conversations or keeping all the records in the mailbox of a customer, Wave store them all in a different way which we often call blips, which seem as a cluster of multimedia messages. These multimedia messages are located on a central server. Another fact is that waves can be shared at any time and the collaborators [of the conversation or whatever things it may be] can be added or removed at any point during the existence of a wave.

Flexibility is what else is to be mentioned about Google Wave. Anyone who participates in a wave can reply or modify a message anywhere. When a user is making changes to the blips, all the readers are notified via email.

Above all the mentioned features, Google Wave is really live. This is mainly because all everything that is happening inside Google Wave appear real time, word by word through out the community.

15 Google Wave Invitations Giveaway

Well, Some days back I received an invitation to preview Google Wave, cool huh? And I’m gonna give away 15 invitations, of course for FREE. You need only to follow @Siddharth29 on Twitter and retweet this post. Winners will be selected via Random.org and this contest will end Soon.

Courtesy:-

Itecharena.blogspot.com (for inviting me to wave!)

jacobyap.com (for resources)

What is Micro-blogging?

Sometimes blogging applications like wordpress, blogger, typead etc. are too much for a post. Just imagine if we start updating our status or sharing a link to a friend on wordpress or blogger then what would happen. There will be thousands of posts on a single page without any comments or there even won’t be any followers. Its horrible to imagine such a thing.

Micro-blogging is the solution to all this. Micro-blogging refers to publishing very short status messages or updates generally would be of two or three sentences. There are several emerging startups in this area, most famous being twitter. Also a few big social networking players like Facebook and bebo have converted themselves into this area.

Lets start with definition of Micro-blogging from Wikipedia. Micro-blogging is a form of multimedia-blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, digital audio or the web.

Let’s see some famous Micro-Blogging tools and the features and services they are offering to users.

Twitter: this famous Micro-blogging tool was launched publicly in August of 2006. The idea behind twitter was very simple; the co-founder (Jack Dorsey) was interested in the simple idea of being able to know what his friends were doing. Simplicity has played an important role in Twitter's success. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. Twitter accepts messages from sms, web, mobile web, instant message, or from third party, API projects like Tweetie, twitterfeed, DestroyTwitter etc. and makes it easy for folks to stay connected. You can also make money through twitter.

Mood Mill: While surfing different Micro-Blogging websites, Mood Mill impressed me the most. Mood Mill is a social mood management website. It's a personal mood management, a log, a quick 'n easy website for managing and sharing your short logs with your contacts.

Tumblr: The things here attracted me after signing in were it’s simplicity and elegance. Tumblr lets you share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML. Even use your own domain name. We can say that Tumblr is a combination of blogspot and twitter but in simpler form.

I Rate My Day: This site tries to understand one of the greatest mysteries of human being: feelings. IRateMyDay allows you to share your feelings with the rest of the World in total simplicity! Each time you rate your day, you bring your salt grain to a global vision of the human feeling.

There are many more micro-blogging websites like Emotionr, Hictu (video microblogging), Pacmee, Twingr, Socialtext, Blellow, Plinky … etc. This list will never end. That’s all for now. Very soon I will come with the comparisons and services provided by different Micro-Blogging websites as I have done in past.

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