This Buzz announcement page greeted me a few days ago when I sign in to my Gmail. This Buzz and Gmail hybrid is akin to the feeling of gWave I tried a couple of months ago.
Leon wrote how to link Buzz with blogs and I thought it’s great, so why not give it a try. So I followed the steps; one of it is to update my Google profile and link it to this blog. So there you go. Let’s see if this works.
Last week I noticed HTML5 feature in YouTube was made available to the public to try. Everyone now has the option to try HTML5 video instead of relying on Flash player to playback the video.
Your web browser must support HTML5 before you can try the HTML5 video on YouTube. Safari and Chrome are among the few that support HTML5 today.
I opted and am using the HTML5 version of YouTube. I like how it doesn’t hog my processor like how Flash did.
You can try HTML5 or visit TestTube to see other interesting features on YouTube, likely to be half-baked at this moment.
Aside from video, HTML5 offers a few more interesting and useful features. An article at ReadWriteWeb summed five neat features.
I’ve been busy crunching numbers and digesting journals in the recent weeks, so much that I didn’t have much time to open Google Wave invitation that has been sitting idle in my inbox for long. Well, today I did, after the majority of my loads are off of the list.
Google Wave’s fun factor depends on the number of friends (or family and colleagues) you have in your contact list. Only those with Google Wave account can hop on your communication wagon.
The interface design is pretty good, but it is still not intuitive enough for beginners to discover what they can do with it and how to do it. Perhaps mimicking typical email interface to something that is revolved around the complexity of Google Wave isn’t a good idea afterall.
Judging by the performance, Google Wave isn’t that great when it’s running on my Safari; It ran slower as soon as I opened Google Wave. Aside from that, there’s really nothing much to comment at this moment…
Still, Google Wave is an interesting communication concept that works pretty decent at its preview stage; It worth trying and exploring. I feel excited imagining a streamlined communication and collaboration for work and leisure. Not to mention the amount of reducible paperwork if this streamlined communication works well.
Why don’t you take Google Wave a spin yourself and see how you like it? I do still have some Google Wave preview invitations left. Drop me a line if you wanna get one.
If you know fun ways to use Google Wave, drop me a line, leave a comment below, or wave me directly.
I heard Chrome OS months ago and wasn’t really convinced that a web browser can replace the entire operating system. I couldn’t even imagine how to browse files and sync info from my gadget via USB to the OS, which is a web browser.
Today Google had a small scale event to preview the Chrome OS. Check out these videos and decide yourself if such OS is a good replacement (or an alternative at least..) to your usual infested OS—no, not this OS.
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I switched my Gmail theme from Minimalist to Ninja since I discover Mini Ninja that I used for Infotech recruitment flyer. Just like Tea House, Ninja changes according to the time. It’s fun to see what the Ninja is up to while busy reading and writing emails.
More about the talk:
In the recent months, Microsoft has been rolling out
new innovative technologies that will change the software competition
landscape.
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Programmers
Designers
Ninjas
All are welcome, regardless of their Dojo and belt color.
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Four random interesting articles from my RSS feed subscription, friends’ blog and elsewhere. It worth reading if you have ten minutes to spare.
An interesting short clip about Google Chrome. I like how this lively short clip features perfect mix of colors and blends 2D+3D to showcase Chrome’s features. The first screen (gray interface with progress bar) reminds me of Mac OS 7’s classic interface. Very old school indeed.
What an amusing tidbit during this hectic period:
The snippet above appeared when I opened my Gmail in PC lab, using IE7 on WinXP. I’ve never seen that before when I used Safari, Opera and Firefox. Hahaa.. Clearly, the message is targeted to a specific web browser.
Considering the big number of Gmail users running it on IE, will this small message impact IE’s market share in any way? Hmm…
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