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Google Wave: Potential Problems and Benefits

Google has announced yesterday what could welcome become a new email, a program, API and most importantly: a new protocol - Google Wave.One of the things I like about it, is its seamless merging of email and IM into one convenient easy to use interface, with threads, multiple participants, private messages and image attachments. All this operated from any browser that supports HTML 5. Firefox, Chrome and Safari were shown (now love for IE?).

HTC Dream - a Google Phone is coming in September!

Google has just opened Android Marketplace, similar to apple store but open to all developers. Rumored specs, early pics, videos and FCC approval documents all floating all over the web.

Stop blabbing!

I hate it when people talk about something they really don’t know, but just heard it somewhere. ARGHHHGH!!!! It makes me angry!!! Before you open your big fat mouth to say some so-called fact that you picked up from your hairdresser, make sure it’s correct and you are not spreading bullshit. Just F*** Google it!

Google thinks they are smarter than you - again!

 I tried rotating one of my son's pic's using Google's Picasa2 today. Guess what!? It doesn't really rotate the actual JPEG file, instead it memorizes the operation internally.  In other words, things will look and act as they should, but! as long as you are using Picasa. Have you, by any chance, want to view your file by using standard Windows image viewer, you are in for a surprise, the pic remains unchanged! Turns out, there is a way around this: just click Ctrl-S to "save the changed image" in picasa. Still...was enough to piss me off!

Less than perfect web services

 Here is my dilemma: I would like to have all my information accessible from any computer and from a single place on the web. Google with it's calendar seems like a perfect match, right? Maybe, but while being completely satisfied with its gmail I find it's calendar, docs and spreadsheet to be way underdeveloped. The main thing that is missing in their calendar is "snooze" button. Some of my events are something in between the "to-do" and "specific time" events, let's just say I like it to nag for a while, before I actually do it :-). 

Searching for a search engine

 I don't about you but I'm getting pretty fed up with Google and the spam it appears to like presenting me with. The big question is which search engine to migrate to. I have to admit I do like the results that both Yahoo and MSN present me with but I simply can't face having to download all that news just to perform a quick search. 

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