Features Google Wave Use Cases: Education Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. It was announced at the end of May, released as a 'Preview' product shortly after and 100,000 more invites were made available at the end of September. Early users reported mixed feelings. But one month after Google Wave was opened to tens of thousands of… Richard MacManus View comments
web Turn Your Windows 7 Computer Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes, Free & No Hardware Connectify.me is a new service we just found out about. They've sussed out how to make any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Since we just installed Windows 7 on a spare laptop, we figured it was about time to make Windows do something cool, so we installed the app. We were quite literally up and running with other devices connected in… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Startups Will Google Listeners Bankrupt Lala? The question period after today's launch of Google's OneBox music search focused a great deal on the project delivering users with easy "legitimate music" versus other illegitimate sources. While discussion was centered around squashing the millions of illegal torrent files available for download, the truth is that a number of streaming music… Dana Oshiro View comments
Facebook Facebook Announces Roadmap for Developers Today, Facebook has published a developer roadmap outlinining upcoming relevant changes and a rough timeline for each. Changes include developer access to user emails, more prominent app displays on user profiles, all-new homepage dashboards for apps and games, and improvements to Open Graph and Analytics APIs. Facebook Connect libraries will be… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Startups Blog-To-Newsletter: Cheap Community and Advocacy Tools Volunteer-run organizations often spend thousands of dollars on quarterly newsletters and direct mail solicitations. While the groups have the best of intentions, they often lack the in-house graphic designers and high-quality printers to actually produce these goods. Nevertheless, they almost always have blogs, websites and social media… Dana Oshiro View comments