Google Wave: Redefining email, chat and more...

Ever wondered that the email framework or the way conversations happens today is good and all we need is minor tweaks on features and performance only??? I guess many or almost all in this world would have though so. But its not just that much we need, as rightly said by Jens Rasmussen, if we ought to invent EMail today, how it would have been? We need to think from the scratch and identify what all we want to do with it. We need to think out of the box, in a broad way and not just in the narrow path of the existing email theme.

Thats was Google has done and 2 years after starting the prototyping, Google has comeup with Google Wave a service which is in developer preview mode, yet to be launched to public, is a service which shows all new way to converse over email, chat, share, and lot more.

Last week in Google I/O, Google Wave was demonstrated and all the strengths of wave was showcased. Its not all, Google Wave is a open source platform, and the technology is also open for others to try new things with it. If you want to write gadgets or do more with Google Wave, the APIs are available at your service. To know more of the protocol, go to waveprotocol.

Watch the entire demo at the Google I/O:

Cloud Computing to the Next Level

In today's world Cloud Computing is a very common topic. Everyone talks about clouds and doing the computing in large scale in clouds. Cloud in simple terms is nothing but a set of machines with huge capacity and hardware for faster, fatter computations. The machines are not owned by individual, but some service provides like Amazon, and everyone can pay and use those machines and memory.

Things looks nice till now. But today the cloud computing has reached to the next level. Put your PC on the cloud...yes you read it right. The desktop that you have is no longer required. Airtel the leading mobile company in India, provides a broadband service and the broadband users now have a chance to put their PC on the cloud i.e. you will be given a LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse along with the broadband connection and thats it, the harddrive, OS, softwares all are on the cloud and you just access them using your broadband connection.

The PC which is now on the internet will have the original Microsoft Windows Online Desktop and MS Office and 10GB of drive space. There are different traiffs and each comes with its own features for the Net PC. But in all variants there is a 100% guarantee for the data and hence no crashes or data loss at all.

Things that can be done with a search box

Ever wondered what can be done with search box of Google. Like many people I used to use it only for searching the net for some information, documents, links, pages, etc... But is it all it is used for? The answers is NO . Quite sometime back(probably years back) I wanted to check for time in San Francisco. I tried to search for its timezone and the difference between that time zone and IST and all the math. But then the search gave me an answer and I was shocked and happy about it. I searched for "time in San Francisco" and the first result was the time in San Francisco right away.

Then I started exploring and using it to get the definitions/meanings of words, currency conversion, movies show timings, unit conversion, weather and a host of other reasons. Google does provide a lot more features and its nice to see that the simple search box can act as the all-in-one tool which can find answers for many day to day requirements.

All the features are clearly explained with an example at Google Search Features page. Its a very useful resource. Now, most of these are also available on other search engines like Y!, Windows Live, etc...