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Aug
05/10
The Wave is over
Last Updated on Thursday, 5 August 2010 07:02
Written by jasonser
Thursday, August 5th, 2010

The Death Of Google Wave

The big news are in: Google is halting any development of the Wave platform, the end of Google Wave is here. Wave made its official debut in May of 2009 at Google I/O, the yearly developer’s conference. Wave promised real-time communication like never seen before, users could communicate and see each others messages almost immediately (e.g. the typing of the message could be seen in real-time on the other end).

Wave excited developers all over the world, suddenly the possibilities of direct collaboration, development, communication and much more were at the fingertips of whoever was lucky enough to receive a beta invite.

Yet Google states that Wave’s downfall emerged on the basis of slow user integration, a steep learning curve and, surprisingly, no direct use for the tool. Many struggled to integrate Wave into their daily life. The technology allowed one, for example, to share, manipulate and collaborate on photos with ease. Yet many found it to be somewhat excessive. There are several web apps to that for you already. The bottom line is, Wave over delivered.

It was crowded with all kinds of information and in-built apps. From chat to direct media tools… It proved to be overwhelming.

With this we say, RIP Wave… Maybe in another life…

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Jul
22/09
Yahoo New Homepage Design Barely A Make Over
Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2009 02:30
Written by admin
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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Yes, Yahoo came out with a New Home Page Design (Finally!), but  is barely a makeover. As far as design concern is just a simplified version. Yet Simplicity is what we user had always wanted, that’s why Google have their place in the market.

Alright, some may argue that Yahoo is a “Portal” and Google is a “Search Engine”, but to the user at large, we don’t care! We use them to get the info we want, and we sure hope we can get the info we want, the way we wanted.

Yahoo new homepage is a direction that we all look forward to. The good news is that now we won’t have to deal with an ad-overdosed homepage anymore. Power to the users!

Why don’t you go to Yahoo.com or check out the new home page here? But we do need to opt in to play around with all the new features.
Why we are not surprised? :)

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