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Future of Google Wave : Themes and then Wave Desktop Clients

Google Wave will be released later this year. The world is waiting ( just like you and me !! ) … but, lets take a moment to think about how Google Wave will be evolving.

Google Wave Themes

First simple thing that I am thinking about it Google Wave themes. Not everyone likes the googly blue everywhere they go. So, when Google Wave is out, people will be looking for options to change looks and feel of Google Wave. Their prayers will be answered when themes are released.

Looking at the speed at which google wave plugins are being developed, I have no doubt about google wave themes being released very soon. Don’t worry about looking for them around the wide wide web .. I will search and find them for you .. just stay tuned .. ( rss rss … ding dong !! )

Google Wave Desktop Clients

If you are wondering what a Google Wave desktop client is, I have an idea to make it really really easy to understand. If you are using twitter, you are probably not using twitter.com to tweet and retweet right ? You might be using tweetdeck or twitterfox of something similar.

So think about using google wave from a software similar to tweetdesk, instead of using the web interface ? Like tweetdesk made it easier and interesting to manage your twitter account, we may find an app to make google wave more fun and useful on desktop .. may be an adobe air application ? anyone thinking about that ?  ( hmm did anyone ask for my twitter account ?  here you go .. )

I will be wrong if I say, people have started thinking about Google Wave Desktop clients. They have actually started making them. Here is a video that I found on this blog.

My Wave Web Chat Client Demo from Benjamin Nortier on Vimeo.

These things are still in the development more reformed and usable forms are yet to be developed or released. Let’s wait and watch !!

Sign Up for Free Wave Experience

If you are looking for a way to test google wave before google releases their version, here is a test server where you can sign up for a free account. Its not quite ready yet, but you can get the feeling of what it is like to be inside google wave. Click here

ps: image credit monterd

Chetan Bhagat, Screw him !!

Not really, just that I learned use this cool phrase from his book, “Five point someone”. Don’t ask me if this is the only thing I learned from that book ok ?

Let me tell you something, I am not reviewing the book here, ok ? I can’t review any book, actually, ( I really don’t know how to !! someone teach me ? ) All I can do is,  share my experience; is that the thing that you call book review ? uhmm, I am not quite sure,

This one was a fun read, easy to follow, and funny, most of the times. I felt that I am in a conversation with the author, and I didn’t want the book to have an end at all….

Fighting Readers Block ….

I was finding it hard to read more books, like how I used to do, during my college days. Now, with this book, I realize that my tastes have changed, and I should think about something “young” – this one, of course. I finished this book in 6 days which is pretty fast, compared to my average speed these days and now I feel like reading more .

Suggestions ?

CSS, You are Awesome !!

CSS : This word keeps coming back to me these days. Every time I open google.com, I type something related to css there, and browse through result pages. Call it “mad about css” or “in love with css” or “crazy about css”, I am thinking about it all the time … I am dreaming about it throughout the day.

CSS is awesome.

CSS is really great, and it is awesome. It can do many wonders on your web page. It can make your blog look good or bad, or beautiful or even sexy. There are n number of beautiful things that you can do with CSS. Last week I spent hours looking at CSS wonders that other people have created, and finally decided to learn CSS, Continue reading →

Palakkad on a Cell Phone Cam

Palakkad is a district in Kerala, which is green green and green. It’s 135km away from where I am now ( Cochin ). I visited my roomie’s village last Sunday. It was a fun drive on the bike and yea…… in the heavy rain.

I don’t have a digi cam yet. These pics are from my roomie’ 2.0 MP Cell Phone Cam. Is it really worth to spend few thousands on a digicam with little photographic skills ?.

PS: Thanks to Ruhii.

Happy Independence Day

We have a new theme !!

If you are not a new visitor, I am sure you know about my habit of changing themes again and again. This post will add another one to the list. So we have a new theme !!

Changing the theme is always fun. For many, theme change is lot of work and something that they usually avoid, because it includes a lot – re arrange sidebar, edit codes, links if any etc. But, I enjoy each and every step involved in a theme change !!

I can edit the files to include the stats tracking code for Google Analytics, make minor changes in the code of the theme, experiment with Adsense, try new color for it new location, new size and format … and more

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