In real life I am Tom Ward
On Twitter I am @i_are_scientist
I am a Leeds Utd fan
I am a scientist
I am mostly in Oxford
Previously, News Corp stated that they were thinking of charging for online as well as print content. Now, Rupert Murdoch has also suggested that they're taking steps to remove News Corp content from Google search indexes and Google News.
Do they really get enough direct traffic that they don't need Google to direct traffic to them?
Another Sesame Street Google Doodle. What I want to know is, why doesn't a google search for 600813 return google.com?
OK, so the posterous API didn't handle the images or any of the gadgets I added. If you're interested, this is what they WOULD Have looked like!
Google Wave in progress
Some gadgets
Google Wave: A Quick Glimpse ((tags: Google, Wave))
Images Failed To Upload
I finally got a Google Wave preview invitation at the start of the month and I've been playing around with it for a couple of days now.
As you can see from the screen-grab above, I'm posting this via the posterous robot which takes the content of the Wave, processes it, and displays the content as a blog post.
This is a test post using google wave and the posterous robot.
The geniuses at googlelabs have been at it again. Accused of killing off traditional news outlets by cashing in on other peoples news, they've, it seems, tried to make amends by introducing fast flip. Fast flip is the on-line equivalent of the newsagents magazine rack. Arranged by topic, popularity and source, fast flip allows the user to skim through images of popular news items from various news sources. Because the images are fairly small, anyone using fast flip will have to click on the image to read the rest of the article, meaning much needed revenue from adverts goes to the content generator rather than the omnipresent google. The search bar at the top of the page searches fast flip news items using your search term and displays them as a grid of images. Again, you need to click through to the main article if you're really interested in the story. If, like me, you prefer to browse rather than read long articles, fast flip is great for getting the headlines that matter.
Oxford Search:
Looks Interesting...
Handy Results Bar:
So the announcement has been made - Google Wave will be open for business from the end of September, or rather, it'll be available to 100,000 (I'm assuming, select) users, with the rest of us getting our hands on it a month or so later. But what does this really mean? Having seen the original announcement earlier this year, I've been really excited by the possibilities Wave will bring. It could easily spark the end of e-mail as we know it. The problem is that it's unlikely that many ISPs, companies, universities etc will immediately rush out and change their IMAP and POP servers over to wave, particularly if the integration with classical e-mail isn't great. I mean, how useful would it be to have this amazing new way of communicating if there isn't anyone to communicate with. I imagine it'll be like the early days of facebook when it was only open to university students and I had 2 friends! I just hope it doesn't take too long for wave to become ubiquitous; it'll be quite boring otherwise...
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