There is one song added to my list of favorites, the very second I heard it. “It’s amazing that you can speak right to my heart” it says..
When I saw the news about Google Dictionary, I thought something similar, its amazing that these people keep launching interesting products every week or so. Aren’t you amazed ? Now, call me a google fan boy, I dont mind !
So, the dictionary. Well, lets not just say dictionary, it is a multi language dictionary. You can translate words to multiple languages, and do much more with it. There is Rich Definitions page, Translated search etc. This dictionary includes results from wikipedia and other online resources to bring the best result, each time.
Listen, this is a pretty cool thing. Google Wave also has a public timeline, like twitter. It shows all wave created and updated if they are marked “public”, and this happens real-time. You can open these waves and join the conversation. To access it, all you need to do is, type “with:public” without quotes, in to the search bar.
6rounds is a featured Google Wave Extension for Video Chat and Collaboration. It lets you chat with your friends using webcam, and do many other things together, real time.
With Google Wave + 6rounds, you can
Chat
View friends’ webcam
Play games together
Edit Documents together
Watch the same video together
Browse together
Browse Facebook together
What is Real-Time C0llaboration
All this happen, real-time. If you are unsure of what “real-time” collaboration is, let me explain that real quick.
A collaborative editor is a software application that allows several people to edit a computer file using different computers. There are two types of collaborative editors, real-time and non-real-time. Real-time collaborative editors allow users to edit the same file at the same time. ( wikipedia )
So, when you say watch one video, in real-time, you are watching the same video, on two different computers, two different locations. Suppose you pause the video on your computer, same will happen on your friend’s computer too. Your friend can see every mouse movement every click you make.
The web is getting ready for Google Wave. There are more and more wave plugins and extensions coming out almost every day for this. Latest one here is Google Wave Embed extension for Mediawiki. This is a simple article that lets you learn the basics of using Google Wave on Wikipedia or Mediawiki.
What is MediaWiki ?
this is what their website says .. simple and easy to understand.
The GoogleWave extension makes it possible to embed Google Waves in your installation of MediaWiki using the The Google Wave Embed API. So, in future we may see Google Wave in a Wikimedia entry, letting you do more on that Wiki Article. If you have your own MediaWiki installation, this is great news for you also.
How to Embed a Wave in a Wiki Article
Now, here is the howto part, or the technical knowhow on adding Google Wave in to a Wiki entry. This can be achieved with the wave-tag and id attribute like this:
<wave id=”wavesandbox.com!w+TwgH-jM-%B” />
Place the tag in your regular WikiML code in any page and you should be good to go (you must of course change the id to the actual id of the wave that you want to embed).
The MediaWiki wave tag now supports all the attributes that a wave can handle. That means, you can change following things on the wave, ( mainly how it looks, and its size )
Hey, is this word new to you ? then read on …… I will tell you what a splog and what they do…..
Have you ever seen trackbacks ( links to your posts ) saying “Wrote an interesting post” or “talked today about” or similar words? They do not have their own content but links to lot of other blogs.. and you thought that someone liked your post and linked there ? Yes, they are splogs.
Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologismsplogs[citation needed], are artificially created weblogsites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites. The purpose of a splog can be to increase the PageRank or backlink portfolio of affiliate websites, to artificially inflate paid ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. Spam blogs are usually a type of scraper site, where content is often either inauthentic text or merely stolen (see blog scraping) from other websites. These blogs usually contain a high number of links to sites associated with the splog creator which are often disreputable or otherwise useless websites.
So, here is another new feature on Google Docs, for those who wants to do things in “style”. You can now add CSS styles to your docs on Google Docs. Before we go any further, here is a quick explanation of what CSS is, in case you do not know what it is.
CSS is used to help readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. ( Wikipedia )
Now, here is what you can do with CSS, on google docs ( just few examples ok ? )
There is one song added to my list of favorites, the very second I heard it. “It’s amazing that you can speak right to my heart” it says..
