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24 Oct, 2009

Google Wave is cool enough, but is it useful?

Posted by: Philip In: Google| Internet

Its been a few weeks and I now have a few friends populated in Google Wave.  When I first received my invite, it was me, myself and I – ok, that’s just one person – on Wave.  I had to turn to the in:public search option to find any waves to try out the service.
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01 Oct, 2009

Google Wave invite has arrived

Posted by: Philip In: Google| Internet

Overnight, I received my Google Wave invite.  So far, no one I know has a Wave account, I’ve sent out a few invites and hopefully later today, I can begin riding the Wave.  More soon…

09 Jul, 2009

What’s missing in Chrome OS?

Posted by: Philip In: Google| Internet

Following up on my earlier post about Chrome OS, I got to thinking.  Google has GMail for email, Talk for chat, Google Docs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, and a slew of other cloud based apps.  But what is missing from their portfolio and therefore missing in Chrome OS?  I know we don’t know [...]

09 Feb, 2009

Google Gears, for offline use, rocks

Posted by: Philip In: Apple| Google

There was a time when I was the first on the block to try everything new that came out.  Those times have long since past and family and other priorities have taken over.  But this weekend, I was able to try Google Gears and finally understood the value of the service.  Over the years, I’ve [...]

Saw a lot of media coverage about T-Mobile’s introduction of the G1 handset.  I’ve watched several demos and I’m not really sure what I think of the handset yet.  Its certainly not got the wow factor that I had after seeing the introduction of the iPhone.  Maybe the missing piece was the Steve’s reality distortion [...]


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