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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Preview of Windows Live Messenger

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Software" @ 08:31 PM

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wi...-messenger.aspx

"We've spent the last few months posting about how we look at the industry, the key customer problems that are top-of-mind for us, and where we think we can improve the lives of our customers. Today in a speech at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, Steve Ballmer is sharing a preview of the new Windows Live Messenger. In this post we want to talk more about our philosophy and approach for this new version. In subsequent posts we'll go into more depth on different aspects of the experience."

Talk about a major re-design! I wonder though, is it too little too late? I don't log into Messenger as much as I used to - I find that I fire up TweetDeck 10x more often than Messenger. Twitter isn't a complete replacement for IM though - being a public medium, I always keep that in mind when I post messages. If I could fire up one software client and get Twitter, Messenger, and Facebook messages...that would be very useful to me. What about you?


Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Take A Peek Inside Google Wave

Posted by Hooch Tan in "Digital Home News" @ 01:00 PM

http://www.solidstategroup.com/page...rst-impressions

"Yesterday I was given my Developer Preview account by the Google Wave team. To say I have been eager to try Wave out since watching the original video is something of an understatement! I felt a bit like Charlie unwrapping his chocolate bar and finding a golden ticket. OK well maybe not that excited, but you know, a brand new messaging medium in a world where I receive coming on to a thousand emails, IMs, tweets and SMS messages of day is something to get excited about."

I have seen the video and I have read the impressions that developers are now posting about Google Wave and I admit that I still have not bought into all the hype surrounding this new project by Google. To me, it looks like a mashup between email, instant messaging, threaded conversations (like you find in some forums) and a wiki. Does it look really handy and useful? Yes. Will it revolutionize the way we communicate? Well, maybe. It may just be such a foreign idea that one has to use it for a while to really appreciate what it has to offer, but reports are coming in that a public beta will not be available until September. I am looking forward to it from a work perspective as it looks like it will be a really easy to use collaboration tool, which I am finding is becoming increasingly important in today's business world. Has anyone gotten access to a developer account for Google Wave? Does it really live up to all the hype? Please tell me that this is going to be one of Google's more successful projects.


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