Tag: GOOGLEWAVE

Remember Google Wave? We don't either. But Google apparently does, and the company isn't quite ready to let go. On its blog today, the company announced a discussion feature that it has added to Google Docs to allow "rapid and seamless discussions, help the right people participate, as well as integrate discussions with email in an intuitive way." In other words, your very precious comments ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... At yesterday's Zeitgeist event, Google's Eric Schmidt said the search company plans to add social networking "layers" to its products this fall. [From: Reuters] New numbers from Nielsen indicate that Bing has passed Yahoo! to become the second largest search engine in the U.S. [From: Bits Blog] Buried among yesterday's Twitter ...

Google Wave, only a couple of months past its first birthday is no more. The highly anticipated (and hyped) re-imagining of communication and collaboration for the modern era stunned us with its incredible capabilities and questionable utility. After opening to the public in May, Wave failed to attract the user base Google anticipated. Instead, when faced with a drastically different paradigm for ...

Share The days of extreme hype preceding the release of Google Wave invites were torture for geeks like us. Everyone wanted access to what was being touted as the next generation Google product, sure to make e-mail, tweeting, and face to face communication ancient history on its release. The Wave invitation was like a prom date: desired, a sign of acceptance, and the hardest thing to get in town. ...

Several of us here at Switched have been playing with Google Wave for a few days now. And we have to admit that our fervent anticipation was quickly replaced by confusion as we tried to figure out what, exactly, this thing is good for. Thankfully, between our bouts of hair-pulling and trying to make sense of the mess that our Waves quickly became, we still had time to check our Twitter feeds and ...

Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below. Microsoft's Zune HD In the Flesh We've been awaiting the unveiling of the Zune HD, and Engadget managed to ...