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Maily

SMTP to Google Wave gateway

Just some ideas I have about Google Wave. I read various stories about Google Wave and what it will do to Friendfeed, Twitter, etc. But I still think The remark the team has “What Email would be if it was invented today” is a far better description that social tool. And in the end Wave will probably be the end of email and IM as we know it now. This will be a hard blow for Microsoft with Exchange, Outlook, Communicator or Live Messenger.

For the companies and Internet providers there will have to be in my opinion a email to Wave gateway. This probably would be a robot, and should be called maily with the current name convention, can put email and send email from a Wave. Flexible companies will switch to Wave for increased usability. but still want to communicate and receive messages via the old fashion SMTP protocol that sill will be in use by companies that are not able to adjust quickly.

Just like the demoed robot blogy maily chould send messages on behave of legacy mail users. An other alternative could be creating a seperate server that functions as a SMTP federation server that directly puts mail messages though to a Wave server.

Google Wave

I’m certainly not the first to write about this service Google unveiled 3 days ago on the Google IO 2009 conference. But when I heard first news about this service I wasn’t that impressed, the things I heard where project management suite with twitter as communication tool. Well that would be nice to not more than that.

But since I viewed the complete 80 Minute video yesterday, I’m very enthusiastic about Google Wave, and can’t stop thing about the possibilities that this will probably have.

Google has really done some innovating here. To be short Wave is an email, Instant Messaging mashup that change could collaboration, communication and workflow systems both in business and private environments.

I really hope to see some public things about Wave in a short period of time, and it would be even better to have a Wave server running here at home to slow replace spam invested email and IM.

Twitterverse and Conversation Prism

The current Twitter ecosystems has been put in a great looking solar map so you can quickly find all tools to optimal engage with the twitter crowd.

The original blog entry can be found here by JESS3 & Brian Solis

Also from the same authors an even more better looking graph of the important web 2.0 social sites, on the site you can order this as a poster.

The original site can be found here by JESS3 & Brian Solis

Google Chrome 2

Without a lot of noise May 21st the Google Chrome team pushed Google Chrome 2.0.172.28 from Beta to the Stable channel, that is Google talk from releasing version 2 of Chrome.

This 8 months after the launce of Chrome. The reason it was a quite release is that Google doesn’t do much with the version number only that it is a metric.

“We're referring to this as Chrome 2, but that's mainly a metric to help us keep track of changes internally. We don't give too much weight to version numbers and will continue to roll out useful updates as often as possible.”

The main feature of this new version is again a faster running sites that use JavaScript due to improvements in the V8 engine, Chrome can alos run now in full screen mode and from the ‘Most visited’ page visited sites can be removed. If you like you can download the latest version here.

If you really like Google Chrome to be cutting edge you can download the Chrome Channel Changer 2.0. This way you can change from stable, beta or dev release.

Scoopler

Real-time news from social networks

As we have seen now a couple of time in some big events across the world, like the hostage situation in Mumbai, the plan crash in the Hudson and for me more local the crash of Turkish air in Amsterdam, more and more news gets first picked up by people close to the event bringing it to the masses via social media sites like twitter.

Scoopler is a great way to start viewing these messages from around the world. And get all the latest news the first from the people close to the event and having additional information to post about it.

The layout of the site is as you can see below divided in three parts with in the middle the refreshing live feed that has of course a lot of twitter posts, on the right we have more stationary data like Youtube movies and Flickr images and on the left we have the Hot topics link column to see what the most active news items are. Also most of the items can be ‘peeked’ at so that you can watch Youtube movies without leaving the site. The indexing done by scoopler is constant on the large social sites including Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Digg, Youtube and more.

In the current real-time twitter search engines Scoopler is far from the first to appear. Sites like Yauba, dailyrt, tweetmeme, OneRiot and others are already active in this segment. Still Scoopler has enough features to match and even outrun some of the others. But can Scoopler keep this going and add enough features or will it be superseded by a new comer, because there are already companies who are talking about similar services.

Nokia N97

The new Nokia flagship N97 is making it’s way to the customer. On new site from Nokia you can see the N97 in al it’s glory, a great flash movie showing the greatness of this phone.

And  a great phone it is. If you look at it objectively, what I’m absolutely incapable of, this phone is way better then the Apple iPhone. But there is a problem, for Nokia that is the App Store.

The App Store holds already a huge amount of great applications that run on the iPhone and make it a multi functional device. I haven’t seen a list of the apps that are available via the Ovi Store. But this can’t be much more then a few hundred widgets WRT apps. widgets where marked as being a bit of a wimpy name.

So I’m still not sure what to get next an iPhone with a 2 megapixel camera, my current ancient Nokia N80 has already a 3 megapixel camera. But with a wealth of great programs that let me do anything on the road and make the device a great social media machine. Or the Nokia n97 with a 5 megapixel camera, Qwerty keyboard. but only the apps that the Ovi store has to offer.

Which one it’s going to be I’m still not sure. but you can now  pre-orders the N97 at Nokia with prices from $699 in the US to 659€ in Germany and 599€ in Italy.

Wolfram|Alpha

Is the brainchild of physicist, mathematician and businessman Stephen Wolfram. It has been a idea of his to create a system that can compute almost al possible questions you can ask it. For decennia this hasn’t been possible but now with the maturity of the technology, mainly that of his own product Mathematica, it’s possible to create such a system that can create logic on various sets of data.

As the first part of this project Wolfram will make a site public, sometime this month, that can answer questions you have. You’ll get complete answers about for example distance to the moon not only the mean distance, but also the current distance that can deviate as well over 10 thousand miles. Also asking the temperature on any location for example in 2007 will be possible.

The search engine will be available at wolframalpha.com. this site will be free to use and there won’t be any advertising as Wolfram claimed during a preview at Harvard Law School

Microsoft's 2019 vision

Look into the future, what Microsoft thinks the future will bring in only 10 years.

Reblogged from : Karin Blogt

Much too social

I’ve been expanding my online social networks lately and started to get more online friends/acquaintances but I get more and more frustrated by the multitude of networks where I can find these people to share data with like photo’s, music taste, location, reviews and what every I choose. I think it’s about time to start thinking about a way to move the social aspect away from the current platforms that hold the data. There is a need to create a uniform way to specify the relations and the trust with between people that are available across all these networks. If I want to share my music taste from lastfm and photos from flickr why should I ask that person to join both networks. Most preferably this should be done in a decentralized way like OpenID does this way you can choose the relation provider you are most comfortable with and you trust.

Could this be what web 3.0 is about? Again a split? This time not only separating the data from the presentation part (what mainly web 2.0 is about). But also separating the data and the (social) relations.

I’m still puzzling with this idea and how this can become a reality. I think with ever expanding networks it’s not possible to keep all these service as they are. Sooner or later they have to choose what they want to serve to the users: content or relations.

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