Google Wave – first impression

I was so lucky to get an invitation to try out Google Wave, so I thought I would share my impressions.

First of the layout looks very similar to any regular e-mail inbox. However, the difference quickly becomes evident as soon as I started navigating around this new idea of communication.

Google Wave is the first serious attempt to get ridge og the old fashion e-mail system.

My first thoughts on waveing was that it is quite cool. It seems to me that it combines different kinds of communication from which it brings the best. In a way waveing (when you send a mail using Google Wave) is at best comparable if you imagine you self to be sitting with whomever you communicate with but instead of talking you would be write on the same document. (more…)

Tags: features, Google, wave
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HowTo: Search with keywords and operators

Last night I came to think about the way I preformed searches with the various search engines. So I thought I that might help others.

When you are for something on the internet, you are doing so with words. What most people does not realize is that there are a number of ways to preform a search.

Lets say that I wanted to figure out how to change the kubrick header in the WordPress default theme. In google I might write something like:

HowTo: Change +kubrick header in default +WordPress theme

As you can see above I have put a little plus sign(+), which is called an operator, in front of some of my words. The reason why I have done this is because the plus sign tells the search engine that the word that comes after(kubrick and wordpress) must be in the result. In my above search I chose kubrick and wordpress as my keywords. The reason for this is because theses words tells most about what Im looking for. I could refine my search by including quotation marks around part of the sentence or the whole thing. The search engine would then look that exact line, like this:

“HowTo: Change Kubrick header in default WordPress Theme”

Here is a link to an excellent site that can help you refine your search with google.
Googleguide.com 

Tags: Google, Internet, Keywords, Operators, Search
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