Google Wave Is No More
It’s official as of 8/04/2010 02:00PM. Google has put Wave to rest.
“Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.”
– Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow
I think Google Wave was a great idea and used amazing new technologies in our everyday browsers, but it wasn’t easy enough to use or understand for the average internet user. I even had a hard time understanding it all. I watched videos and was invited by friends to try it, but never saw a reason or an opportunity to use it. I’m sure the hard core Google fans loved it and adapted to it quickly.
Google is keeping a lot of the technology they developed in Wave open source so programmers can continue the innovation they began.
R.I.P. Google Wave
Kevin Terry Dot US Number 1 On Google
After over a year of promoting this site I’ve finally beat all the other Kevin Terry’s on the world wide web. Kevin Terry Dot US is number 1 on Google when just simply typing Kevin Terry. I know this might not seem like much but it was some little goal I had in the back of my head for sometime now. Two other humans on this planet named Kevin Terry have been making it very difficult. I’ve been targeting many different specific sites to help push kevinterry.us to the top. As I continued promoting placing my name and url on other sites I watched kevinterry.us slowly crawl to the top.
Flickr vs Picasa
I have been planning on signing up for an online photo sharing service for sometime now but, I’m not sure which one to go with. I’ve gotten the list down to two well known services. Yahoo’s Filckr and Google’s Picasa. So which one is it? I thought I would make this post to get your opinions on the two services and/or which one you already use and why?
If you don’t feel like explaining why you prefer one over the other please vote for one.
Picasa http://picasa.google.com/
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
Leave a comment and/or vote below.
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