Get the world's geographic information at your fingertips :)

Introducing Google Earth 6 - the next generation of realism !

Yesterday Google introduced the latest version of Google Earth,An interactive digital atlas. Now you can explore your childhood home, visit distant lands or scope out your next vacation spot with even more realistic tools.


In Google Earth 6, we’re taking realism in the virtual globe to the next level with two new features: a truly integrated Street View experience and 3D trees. We’ve also made it even easier to browse historical imagery. Over the next several days on our LatLong blog, we’ll be digging deeper into these great new features, but here’s an overview to whet your appetite.


Integrated Street View
When Google Earth was first introduced, people were wowed by the ability to virtually fly from outer space right down to the roof of their house. While flying over rooftops gives you a super-human view of our world, the ground level is where we experience our daily lives. We took our first baby steps toward bringing the Google Earth experience to street level with our implementation of Street View in Google Earth in 2008, which enabled flying into Street View panoramas. In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated, so you can journey from outer space right to your doorstep in one seamless flight.


3D trees
I think we can all agree that our planet without trees would be a pretty desolate place. Besides the ever-important task of providing us with the oxygen we breathe, trees are an integral part of the landscape around us. In Google Earth, while we and our users have been busy populating the globe with many thousands of 3D building models, trees have been rather hard to come by. All that is changing with Google Earth 6, which includes beautifully detailed, 3D models for dozens of species of trees , from the Japanese Maple to the East African Cordia to my personal favorite, the cacao tree. While we’ve just gotten started planting trees in Google Earth, we already have more than 80 million trees in places such as Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Easy-to-use historical imagery
One of the features people told us they liked best in Google Earth 5 was the availability of historical imagery, which enables you to visually go back in time to see such things asWarsaw in 1935, London in 1945, and Port-au-Prince Haiti before and after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. making this feature one of Google Earth’s lesser-known gems.


To download Google Earth 6, or to see videos of our newest features, visit 
www.google.com/earth

Get the world's geographic information at your fingertips :)

Introducing Google Earth 6 - the next generation of realism !

Yesterday Google introduced the latest version of Google Earth,An interactive digital atlas. Now you can explore your childhood home, visit distant lands or scope out your next vacation spot with even more realistic tools.


In Google Earth 6, we’re taking realism in the virtual globe to the next level with two new features: a truly integrated Street View experience and 3D trees. We’ve also made it even easier to browse historical imagery. Over the next several days on our LatLong blog, we’ll be digging deeper into these great new features, but here’s an overview to whet your appetite.


Integrated Street View
When Google Earth was first introduced, people were wowed by the ability to virtually fly from outer space right down to the roof of their house. While flying over rooftops gives you a super-human view of our world, the ground level is where we experience our daily lives. We took our first baby steps toward bringing the Google Earth experience to street level with our implementation of Street View in Google Earth in 2008, which enabled flying into Street View panoramas. In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated, so you can journey from outer space right to your doorstep in one seamless flight.


3D trees
I think we can all agree that our planet without trees would be a pretty desolate place. Besides the ever-important task of providing us with the oxygen we breathe, trees are an integral part of the landscape around us. In Google Earth, while we and our users have been busy populating the globe with many thousands of 3D building models, trees have been rather hard to come by. All that is changing with Google Earth 6, which includes beautifully detailed, 3D models for dozens of species of trees , from the Japanese Maple to the East African Cordia to my personal favorite, the cacao tree. While we’ve just gotten started planting trees in Google Earth, we already have more than 80 million trees in places such as Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Easy-to-use historical imagery
One of the features people told us they liked best in Google Earth 5 was the availability of historical imagery, which enables you to visually go back in time to see such things asWarsaw in 1935, London in 1945, and Port-au-Prince Haiti before and after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. making this feature one of Google Earth’s lesser-known gems.


To download Google Earth 6, or to see videos of our newest features, visit 
www.google.com/earth

Google me !!

Google’s Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until Spring 2011 !

Google’s big social initiative, once thought to be a full-fledged social network named “Google Me,” is experiencing delays that have pushed back the launch until spring 2011.

The project is a top-secret affair, even within the company. It is being led by Vic Gundotra, one of the company’s public faces and a VP of engineering.

“We’re always experimenting with new ways to improve our products, and we have already confirmed that we are focused on incorporating social elements across Google,” a Google spokesperson told us when reached for comment. “But we have nothing new to announce at this time.”

The rumors were running wild earlier this year about Google Me. According to chatter, at the time, it was going to be a “full, first-class social network” designed as a direct competitor to Facebook. A few months later though, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that the company is actually building social components into Google’s core products.

“If you think about it, it’s obvious. With your permission, knowing more about who your friends are, we can provide more tailored recommendations. Search quality can get better,” Schmidt said at the time.

So what is causing the delay? The likely culprit is disagreement on the design, purpose and execution of the project. One of our sources told us that he/she has heard “tales of disorganization and too many different teams working parallel or in conflict.”

Google’s social initiative was sparked by the threat Facebook presented to its domination of the web.Facebook’s growth has spooked Google’s leadership. When Facebook learned of the search giant’s plans, it responded by entering “lockdown” for 60 days, where the company focused on completing new features likeFacebook Messages, Facebook Places and Facebook Groups.

Beyond YouTube, Google has a poor track record in social, part of the reason why it acquired Slide and Ångströ. The delay of Google’s big social initiative is yet another black eye for the company and another win for a certain social network based out of Palo Alto.

Click here to watch  Google Me Trailer  :) 

Google me !!

Google’s Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until Spring 2011 !

Google’s big social initiative, once thought to be a full-fledged social network named “Google Me,” is experiencing delays that have pushed back the launch until spring 2011.

The project is a top-secret affair, even within the company. It is being led by Vic Gundotra, one of the company’s public faces and a VP of engineering.

“We’re always experimenting with new ways to improve our products, and we have already confirmed that we are focused on incorporating social elements across Google,” a Google spokesperson told us when reached for comment. “But we have nothing new to announce at this time.”

The rumors were running wild earlier this year about Google Me. According to chatter, at the time, it was going to be a “full, first-class social network” designed as a direct competitor to Facebook. A few months later though, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that the company is actually building social components into Google’s core products.

“If you think about it, it’s obvious. With your permission, knowing more about who your friends are, we can provide more tailored recommendations. Search quality can get better,” Schmidt said at the time.

So what is causing the delay? The likely culprit is disagreement on the design, purpose and execution of the project. One of our sources told us that he/she has heard “tales of disorganization and too many different teams working parallel or in conflict.”

Google’s social initiative was sparked by the threat Facebook presented to its domination of the web.Facebook’s growth has spooked Google’s leadership. When Facebook learned of the search giant’s plans, it responded by entering “lockdown” for 60 days, where the company focused on completing new features likeFacebook Messages, Facebook Places and Facebook Groups.

Beyond YouTube, Google has a poor track record in social, part of the reason why it acquired Slide and Ångströ. The delay of Google’s big social initiative is yet another black eye for the company and another win for a certain social network based out of Palo Alto.

Click here to watch  Google Me Trailer  :) 

The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value

Engines of the future: Into the deep web     

Search engines see only one in 500 of the accessible pages out there – but a new approach could open up vast new data mines

With billions of web pages in their indexes, you might imagine that if something is online, search engines will find it for you. In reality, the vast majority of web pages are effectively invisible to them.

Some of this "deep web" contains isolated pages with few, if any, hyperlinks, making them difficult to index. Much is stuff you wouldn't want to see anyway: web pages detailing old flight reservations, for example, or out-of-date product reviews on Amazon. However, a large proportion are believed to contain openly accessible databases of everything from information on used cars to the prices of airline seats.

Even ignoring password-protected and other private sites, the deep web is estimated to be at least 500 times the size of the "surface" web visible to search engines. And by some estimates only 16 per cent of the surface web has been indexed by search engines - that is just 0.03 per cent of the whole (see "Lost in cyberspace").

Juliana Freire at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City thinks that even this figure is over-optimistic. She is developing Deep Peep, a specialist search engine that trawls so-called "form-fronted" databases. These are sites with interfaces in which search terms must be typed in order to call up the information stored in the database. Since it isn't practical to ask each of these sites individually for an index of their contents, the challenge is to get this information automatically.

To do this, Deep Peep uses "iterative probing". First, it analyses the form's wording for clues about the nature of the database. For example, the words "assignee" or "invention" are likely to indicate a patent database. Deep Peep uses these clues to fill in the forms, extracts new keywords from the results, and then repeats the process. Tests show Deep Peep can retrieve up to 90 per cent of the information hidden in form-fronted sites.

Mainstream search engines use similar techniques, but the deep web is likely to be growing as fast as its more visible sibling, so even the most powerful search engine will struggle to map more than a fraction of its depths. 

Your search results are likely to remain just a glimpse of a small drop in a very large ocean.

Click here to view the white paper : The Deep web : Surfacing Hidden Value

The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value

Engines of the future: Into the deep web     

Search engines see only one in 500 of the accessible pages out there – but a new approach could open up vast new data mines

With billions of web pages in their indexes, you might imagine that if something is online, search engines will find it for you. In reality, the vast majority of web pages are effectively invisible to them.

Some of this "deep web" contains isolated pages with few, if any, hyperlinks, making them difficult to index. Much is stuff you wouldn't want to see anyway: web pages detailing old flight reservations, for example, or out-of-date product reviews on Amazon. However, a large proportion are believed to contain openly accessible databases of everything from information on used cars to the prices of airline seats.

Even ignoring password-protected and other private sites, the deep web is estimated to be at least 500 times the size of the "surface" web visible to search engines. And by some estimates only 16 per cent of the surface web has been indexed by search engines - that is just 0.03 per cent of the whole (see "Lost in cyberspace").

Juliana Freire at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City thinks that even this figure is over-optimistic. She is developing Deep Peep, a specialist search engine that trawls so-called "form-fronted" databases. These are sites with interfaces in which search terms must be typed in order to call up the information stored in the database. Since it isn't practical to ask each of these sites individually for an index of their contents, the challenge is to get this information automatically.

To do this, Deep Peep uses "iterative probing". First, it analyses the form's wording for clues about the nature of the database. For example, the words "assignee" or "invention" are likely to indicate a patent database. Deep Peep uses these clues to fill in the forms, extracts new keywords from the results, and then repeats the process. Tests show Deep Peep can retrieve up to 90 per cent of the information hidden in form-fronted sites.

Mainstream search engines use similar techniques, but the deep web is likely to be growing as fast as its more visible sibling, so even the most powerful search engine will struggle to map more than a fraction of its depths. 

Your search results are likely to remain just a glimpse of a small drop in a very large ocean.

Click here to view the white paper : The Deep web : Surfacing Hidden Value

Feel it !!!

Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen !!!

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering a novel way to construct a "tactile" touchscreen – a display that uses technical tricks to convince users they are actually touching the ridges, bumps and textures of a displayed image.

Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion of texture, Microsoft proposes producing a real texture, using pixel-sized shape-memory plastic cells that can be ordered to protrude from the surface on command.

It's a new approach to the challenge, but not the first. Communications giant Nokia, Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a Finnish firm called Senseg are all developing displays that use voltages of different frequencies, applied to a grid below the touchscreen, to trick our fingertips into experiencing a wide variety of touch sensations. They are known as vibrotactile displays.

They work well, but have limitations. For one thing, they can be noisy: some of the frequencies are in the audio range, so a buzz can be heard. Such problems may have prompted Microsoft to pursue a radically different approach.

End of Keypads : If it works it certainly would be welcome, says Patrick Baudisch, a display interaction expert at the University of Potsdam in Germany, who worked on the Surface in its early days.

"Creating well-defined bumps on a touch surface is in many ways the holy grail of text entry on touch devices because it would enable touch typing at much faster speeds than on touchscreens today," he says.

And if it could be used on smaller devices, it could spell the end of keypads on phones, he believes. "There would be no more reason for mobile keypads – they would simply be emulated when necessary. That could effect massive change in this field."

Just see this video :-o You will feel it !!! 

Feel it !!!

Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen !!!

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering a novel way to construct a "tactile" touchscreen – a display that uses technical tricks to convince users they are actually touching the ridges, bumps and textures of a displayed image.

Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion of texture, Microsoft proposes producing a real texture, using pixel-sized shape-memory plastic cells that can be ordered to protrude from the surface on command.

It's a new approach to the challenge, but not the first. Communications giant Nokia, Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a Finnish firm called Senseg are all developing displays that use voltages of different frequencies, applied to a grid below the touchscreen, to trick our fingertips into experiencing a wide variety of touch sensations. They are known as vibrotactile displays.

They work well, but have limitations. For one thing, they can be noisy: some of the frequencies are in the audio range, so a buzz can be heard. Such problems may have prompted Microsoft to pursue a radically different approach.

End of Keypads : If it works it certainly would be welcome, says Patrick Baudisch, a display interaction expert at the University of Potsdam in Germany, who worked on the Surface in its early days.

"Creating well-defined bumps on a touch surface is in many ways the holy grail of text entry on touch devices because it would enable touch typing at much faster speeds than on touchscreens today," he says.

And if it could be used on smaller devices, it could spell the end of keypads on phones, he believes. "There would be no more reason for mobile keypads – they would simply be emulated when necessary. That could effect massive change in this field."

Just see this video :-o You will feel it !!! 

Today’s Big Rumor :)

Google Buys Groupon for $2.5 Billion ??

Google has just purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion, according to an unnamed insider who spoke with VatorNews.  Neither Google nor Groupon could be reached for comment to confirm the report, but Vator’s source is reliable and the report falls in line with the recent string of Groupon acquisition rumors.

Talk about a possible acquisition by Google has been bubbling since November 19, when rumors first emerged that Google had made an offer of some $2 billion to $3 billion.  The rumors were first reported by Kara Swisher of All Things D, who claimed that Google and Groupon were already in acquisitions discussions.

Groupon has been quite the hot topic these days.  Earlier this month, Groupon was rumored to be considering raising funds that would value the company at $3 billion.  That rumor was followed by reports that Yahoo was looking to woo Groupon for as much as $4 billion—the second reported attempt by Yahoo to buy the social shopping company.  Earlier this year, All Things D reported that Yahoo and Groupon were in discussions about a possible acquisition for $1.7 billion, but Groupon ultimately rebuffed the low-balled offer and backed out of the deal.

Founded in 2008, Groupon’s revenues are said to be upward of $50 million a month, and an enormous round of fundraising in April raised Groupon’s valuation to $1 billion.  With 20 million subscribers and footholds in 29 countries across Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, Groupon has inspired hundreds of clones, some of which have, in recent months, begun outpacing Groupon (think LivingSocial).  Despite the dozens of rumors about acquisitions by Google, Yahoo, and eBay, Groupon has maintained that it wishes to stay independent. 

While many were anticipating a buyout by eBay, many were surprised when, in October, Groupon partnered with eBay to bring local deals to eBay shoppers, using geo-targeting to find offers for the user’s specific geographic location.  Users who are members of the eBay Bucks Rewards Program who purchase a Groupon deal through eBay can earn 5% back in eBay Bucks.

Today’s Big Rumor :)

Google Buys Groupon for $2.5 Billion ??

Google has just purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion, according to an unnamed insider who spoke with VatorNews.  Neither Google nor Groupon could be reached for comment to confirm the report, but Vator’s source is reliable and the report falls in line with the recent string of Groupon acquisition rumors.

Talk about a possible acquisition by Google has been bubbling since November 19, when rumors first emerged that Google had made an offer of some $2 billion to $3 billion.  The rumors were first reported by Kara Swisher of All Things D, who claimed that Google and Groupon were already in acquisitions discussions.

Groupon has been quite the hot topic these days.  Earlier this month, Groupon was rumored to be considering raising funds that would value the company at $3 billion.  That rumor was followed by reports that Yahoo was looking to woo Groupon for as much as $4 billion—the second reported attempt by Yahoo to buy the social shopping company.  Earlier this year, All Things D reported that Yahoo and Groupon were in discussions about a possible acquisition for $1.7 billion, but Groupon ultimately rebuffed the low-balled offer and backed out of the deal.

Founded in 2008, Groupon’s revenues are said to be upward of $50 million a month, and an enormous round of fundraising in April raised Groupon’s valuation to $1 billion.  With 20 million subscribers and footholds in 29 countries across Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, Groupon has inspired hundreds of clones, some of which have, in recent months, begun outpacing Groupon (think LivingSocial).  Despite the dozens of rumors about acquisitions by Google, Yahoo, and eBay, Groupon has maintained that it wishes to stay independent. 

While many were anticipating a buyout by eBay, many were surprised when, in October, Groupon partnered with eBay to bring local deals to eBay shoppers, using geo-targeting to find offers for the user’s specific geographic location.  Users who are members of the eBay Bucks Rewards Program who purchase a Groupon deal through eBay can earn 5% back in eBay Bucks.

It's Moto !!!

Is That a Computer You're Wearing on Your Head??

Motorola announced that it will develop a hands-free wireless computing headset with micro-display specialists at Kopin -- a move reminiscent of previous attempts to create wearable computers and communications devices.

The device will offer voice, audio and PC capabilities on a virtual reality-style 15-inch monitor that will also support simulation software and streaming video.

"We believe this computer headset will be a game-changing solution for mobile workforces," said Motorola emerging business director Tom Bianculli in a prepared statement.

Golden Eye

From cellphones to car stereos, hands-free operation has been all the rage for years. However, widespread adoption -- where virtual computers are concerned -- has been elusive.
"Historically, users haven't liked the end product," Enderle Group principal technology analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld.
Code-named the "Golden-i platform," the Kopin/Motorola offering hopes to change history with Bluetooth and WiFi enabled gesture- and voice-recognition technology.
Golden-i's micro display appears as a virtual 15-inch, 24-bit color monitor built around Microsoft  Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 operating system and Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 mobile dual processor.
"Golden-i provides a full 128-bit encrypted link to your PC, so you instantly see your own PC screen, full size, 18 inches from your eyes," Golden-i program manager Jeff Jacobsen told TechNewsWorld. "You can use every application and open any document on your PC remotely."


Mission Possible?
Hyped with inevitable comparisons to Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible sunglasses, Motorola in 2005 announced wearable communication device partnerships with sunglass maker Oakley and snow gear maker Burton.Touted as promising "evolutionary and innovative products for consumers who want hands-free, un-tethered operation of their electronic devices," the partnerships have yet to deliver much more than standard fare.Motorola, however, expressed higher ambitions: a seamless cloud perched atop a user's head that would link cellphones, PDAs, and computers without additional devices. Users would never be out of touch, never be unconnected, and never have to flip a switch.The reality, Enderle explained, has been more impossible mission than mission possible."With few exceptions, these hands-free computers look geeky and have been very expensive," he explained. "The medical community has used them successfully for some types of remote operations, but for the rest of us, they've proven mostly a costly headache."


Golden-i promises a different experience, Jacobsen emphasized. "The Oakley device was simply a Bluetooth interface for speech," he said. "Golden-i is more than your PC notebook and your cellphone combined." 

Motorola Head-mounted Computer Gen.2 Kopin Golden-i !!!

Be ready to experience a new era of computing !!!

It's Moto !!!

Is That a Computer You're Wearing on Your Head??

Motorola announced that it will develop a hands-free wireless computing headset with micro-display specialists at Kopin -- a move reminiscent of previous attempts to create wearable computers and communications devices.

The device will offer voice, audio and PC capabilities on a virtual reality-style 15-inch monitor that will also support simulation software and streaming video.

"We believe this computer headset will be a game-changing solution for mobile workforces," said Motorola emerging business director Tom Bianculli in a prepared statement.

Golden Eye

From cellphones to car stereos, hands-free operation has been all the rage for years. However, widespread adoption -- where virtual computers are concerned -- has been elusive.
"Historically, users haven't liked the end product," Enderle Group principal technology analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld.
Code-named the "Golden-i platform," the Kopin/Motorola offering hopes to change history with Bluetooth and WiFi enabled gesture- and voice-recognition technology.
Golden-i's micro display appears as a virtual 15-inch, 24-bit color monitor built around Microsoft  Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 operating system and Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 mobile dual processor.
"Golden-i provides a full 128-bit encrypted link to your PC, so you instantly see your own PC screen, full size, 18 inches from your eyes," Golden-i program manager Jeff Jacobsen told TechNewsWorld. "You can use every application and open any document on your PC remotely."


Mission Possible?
Hyped with inevitable comparisons to Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible sunglasses, Motorola in 2005 announced wearable communication device partnerships with sunglass maker Oakley and snow gear maker Burton.Touted as promising "evolutionary and innovative products for consumers who want hands-free, un-tethered operation of their electronic devices," the partnerships have yet to deliver much more than standard fare.Motorola, however, expressed higher ambitions: a seamless cloud perched atop a user's head that would link cellphones, PDAs, and computers without additional devices. Users would never be out of touch, never be unconnected, and never have to flip a switch.The reality, Enderle explained, has been more impossible mission than mission possible."With few exceptions, these hands-free computers look geeky and have been very expensive," he explained. "The medical community has used them successfully for some types of remote operations, but for the rest of us, they've proven mostly a costly headache."


Golden-i promises a different experience, Jacobsen emphasized. "The Oakley device was simply a Bluetooth interface for speech," he said. "Golden-i is more than your PC notebook and your cellphone combined." 

Motorola Head-mounted Computer Gen.2 Kopin Golden-i !!!

Be ready to experience a new era of computing !!!

Google’s hottest project is back !!!

Google Wave Comes Back From the Dead in an Apache Proposal !!!

Google Wave, which was though to be all but extinct after Google ended development on the project, has been given new life, thanks to Apache.

Once considered the e-mail killer, Google Wave was one of the most-hyped launches of 2009. I’ll be the first to admit that I got swept up by the excitement.

At the time of launch though, I said that Google Wave would either succeed spectacularly or completely bomb. Unfortunately, my latter prediction came true: Google’s realtime communication tool was a failure. Thus, Google shut the project down, open-sourced the code and released Wave as Wave in a Box.

That was supposed to be the end of the story, but now Google Wave has resurfaced in a new proposal to the Apache Software Foundation. Best known for the Apache server, the ASF is host to over 100 open source projects. Several people from Google, Novell, SAP and even the U.S. Navy hope to add “Apache Wave” to that list.

The proposal’s three goals are to migrate Wave’s codebase from Google to the ASF’s infrastructure, to get Wave back to a state where development can be continued and to add new committers to the project. While the proposal notes that there is a risk to adopting Wave as an ASF project (it notes that Wave didn’t gain sufficient traction at Google), it also claims that its use by the U.S. Navy and other adopters makes it a worth project.

Apache Wave is still a proposal though; the ASF still has to accept the project. With a well-developed codebase and some big committers, we expect that this project will see the light of day. If it does, Wave will have been given a second life.

                                      Flourish The Wave !!!

Google’s hottest project is back !!!

Google Wave Comes Back From the Dead in an Apache Proposal !!!

Google Wave, which was though to be all but extinct after Google ended development on the project, has been given new life, thanks to Apache.

Once considered the e-mail killer, Google Wave was one of the most-hyped launches of 2009. I’ll be the first to admit that I got swept up by the excitement.

At the time of launch though, I said that Google Wave would either succeed spectacularly or completely bomb. Unfortunately, my latter prediction came true: Google’s realtime communication tool was a failure. Thus, Google shut the project down, open-sourced the code and released Wave as Wave in a Box.

That was supposed to be the end of the story, but now Google Wave has resurfaced in a new proposal to the Apache Software Foundation. Best known for the Apache server, the ASF is host to over 100 open source projects. Several people from Google, Novell, SAP and even the U.S. Navy hope to add “Apache Wave” to that list.

The proposal’s three goals are to migrate Wave’s codebase from Google to the ASF’s infrastructure, to get Wave back to a state where development can be continued and to add new committers to the project. While the proposal notes that there is a risk to adopting Wave as an ASF project (it notes that Wave didn’t gain sufficient traction at Google), it also claims that its use by the U.S. Navy and other adopters makes it a worth project.

Apache Wave is still a proposal though; the ASF still has to accept the project. With a well-developed codebase and some big committers, we expect that this project will see the light of day. If it does, Wave will have been given a second life.

                                      Flourish The Wave !!!

Google's Slam with a Bang !!!!

This is Demo Slam !!!

  Just like the majority of people don’t line up for tech demos. So how do we get freer, amazing tech goodness to more people? Well, as you’ll see, there’s nothing we won’t try.

  

Introducing Demo Slam, a place where boring tech demos become (hopefully) gotta-show-my-friends awesome—thanks to the creativity of Google users like you.

  

Beginning today, you can watch Preseason Slams and declare a Champ of the week. Then each week, new featured slams will vie for your attention and a shot at demo glory. Think you can create a Slam-worthy demo? Choose a bit of tech you love and show the world what you can do.

  

Let’s get the people who would never watch a tech demo—the people who ironically need those most—to not only watch them, but like them and share them with their friends.
  
I saw this accidentally in my friend's house while checking my status in Facebook ;) I, dhaya and dinesh enjoyed watching this :)  Hope you too ;) Let the Slams begin. Enjoy...

Click here !!!