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What a failure it was : Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow it to be defined properly, but Google is saying today that they are going to stop any further development of Google Wave. Wave, a real time messaging platform, was unveiled in May 2009 to an enthusiastic crowd of developers at the Google I/O event in San Francisco. It would “set a new benchmark for interactivity,” said Sergey Brin. What a failure.

They have to turn off the shinny nice stuff until things get better : Update: 9:32 AM PDT / 16:32 UTC: To help stabilize the site we’re turning off a set of features including but not limited to: Twitter Search, hovercards, web sidebar data (trends, friends counts, etc), and profile image uploads. Update 9:57 AM PDT/ 16:32 UTC: Timelines are now current. Various other features remain disabled. I guess BP's oil spill has extended to even Twitter's fail whale:

So far : Zuckerberg: Before we get into the changes we get into the changes we’re doing today. i want to go through how we got to where we are now. I think it’s really easy to lose track of the fact that the service we have today is different from what we had in 2004. Over the last year, one of the big things we looked at was News Feed. In December added per-post privacy. Another thing is applications. We started with simple model for privacy around applications – it was “Allow” or cancel. We saw over time a lot of apps just used basic information about you. Most things didn’t use friends’ photos. We felt this model wasn’t granular enough. With how these screen shots are looking...... ....There appears to be some improvement, but the full proof still needs to be provided. The ACLU of California is giving there thumbs up actually: After months of privacy-failing moves, Facebook is finally friending privacy again. Facebook’s about-face on privacy comes as a result of mounting pre...

Pop champagne indeed Conan's favorite videos from Youtube Okay, maybe there is a link to that, haha. To Tevin, thanks to, of course Youtube, Goodnight and again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUTUBE!

In the last development between tension between Wikileaks and Facebook (as well as Facebook's latest possible disturbing actions), the social protocol giant took down the "fan-generated" Wikileaks page that had 30,000 people on board and had been operating for a few years. For the moment however, the Wikileaks "Official Fan Page" on Facebook is still up. So unsurprisingly, Wikileaks tweeted about that 30,000 fan-generated page being taken down out of nowhere. In its usual snarky tone that can either make you love them or hate them, Gawker and their writer for this story in Adrian Chen points out the Facebook and Wikileaks acrimony from the past, highlighting the following episode in 2008. In short as you will see from the link , a Swiss bank named Julius Baer wanted to sue someone at Wikileaks for posting stolen documents of one of its clients. Since Wikileaks owners are basically specialist in being incognito and anonymous (up until the recent intervie...

Look what pleasant thing key to us shortening our long massive leaks on Twitter is getting some deserved attention . The default link shortener on Twitter, bit.ly, just keeps getting bigger. In March, 3.4 billion bit.ly-shortened links were clicked on, up from 2.7 billion in February and only 87 million a year ago. Yesterday was a record day for bit.ly, with 147 million clicks (see chart). Even though Twitter still dominates, more than half of all bit.ly links are encoded somewhere besides Twitter.com. Of the 40-50% created within the Twitter ecosystem, a large chunk occurs via Twitter clients and services. But other services such as Facebook are growing as well. About 100 million clicks last month went to Facebook. The diversification will only matter if Twitter ever decides to replace bit.ly as the default shortener with something like twee.tt, which Twitter owns. But there is no indication any change is imminent. The Promoted Tweets which Twitter is about to roll out as its firs...

Here we go again, thought at least this time it isn't another ploy to make your profile less private.....at first glance. They have implemented QR or Quick Response codes. Here's Tech Crunch with the few info : Judging from the tweets about this, the QR codes don’t seem to actually function yet, and the links on pages appear to come and go. We’re trying to get more information and will update accordingly. In case you’re not familiar with QR codes: QR is short for Quick Response (because they can be read quickly by a mobile phone through its camera). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your cell phone – this can be links, videos, text, photos and more. QR codes are generally more useful than a standard barcode is that they can store much more data. The other key feature of QR Codes is that instead of requiring a scanner to ‘read’ them, most modern mobile phones can convert them and there are applications out there for smar...

From the titans of ".net" and ".org" to the college based ".edu", with the politically common ".gov", domain names are part of our lifestyle now. But the domain name that most of us were first introduced into our excursion into the World Wide Web and online protocols, and most familiar with, is the legendary ".com". Well, today is the 25th birthday of that famous domain name. It's even older than me, a staggering thought. Way back on this day in the Bay State a score and a half decade ago, it was born : On March 15, 1985, a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name. Although Symbolics.com didn't spark an instant gold rush, the event planted the first seed of a transformation that has changed the world into a Web-fueled digital river of news, commerce and social interaction. Today, exactly 25 years later, life B.C - Before .Com - is already a distant memory, especially in the ...

Tisk Tisk Tisk (and I hate giving a link to this disgraced Murdoch rag): Yahoo Inc. is shutting down its offices, except for "essential functions," from Dec. 25 through Jan. 1, as the Internet company searches for new ways to cut costs during the recession. Yahoo spokeswoman Dana Lengkeek said the move is the Sunnyvale, Calif., company's first mandatory world-wide shutdown, although Yahoo has encouraged U.S. employees to take the week off in the past. Shutting down "during a traditionally slow week allows employees to recharge, and the company to reduce operating costs for the week," said Ms. Lengkeek. U.S. employees can use vacation time or take unpaid leave for the days not covered in the holiday schedule, she added. Outside the U.S., "time off will be paid consistent with local standards and laws." Executives at Yahoo have been on an aggressive cost-cutting campaign since the start of the year, laying off nearly 700 employees in the spring and shut...

And you thought NewsCorp was going to be okay with providing a free outlet. Hell no ! News Corp. says that Hulu, its jointly owned free online video site, will start charging fees for access at some point in the future. Chase Carey, News Corp.'s president and chief operating officer, says subscription fees could come as early as 2010. Carey made the remarks during a conference in New York on Wednesday. News Corp. says it hasn't decided what form the subscription model would take and right now is concentrating on delivering a good experience for users. Hulu has struggled to make money despite its popularity as an ad-supported online site for TV shows and movies.

No, it wasn't because Glenn Beck was writing a crazy email to ACORN shockingly. It was because of over capacity. Google's nearly two-hour Gmail outage Tuesday was the result of a miscalculation regarding the capacity of its system, the company said late Tuesday. According to Google, the problem began when it took several Gmail servers offline for maintenance, a routine procedure that normally is transparent to users. However, the twist this time around was that Google had made some changes to the routers that direct Gmail traffic to servers in hopes of improving reliability, and those changes backfired. "As we now know, we had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, some designed to improve service availability) placed on the request routers -- servers which direct web queries to the appropriate Gmail server for response," Google said in a post to its Gmail blog late Tuesday. "At about 12:30 p.m. Pacific a few of the request router...

So bizarre....... Welcome to the world of surprising patent lawsuits. A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell Word – yes, Microsoft Word, the cornerstone of Microsoft Office – in the United States. Toronto-based i4i Inc won an injunction against Microsoft regarding the company’s XML patents. In the words of i4i, the injunction “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML”. Microsoft has been given 60 days to comply, reports Seattle PI. That it brought up something that could be very believable from this post We’re going through a recession people, but we still have to make money. It’s harder now than in the previous years, but it’s possible. The easiest way to make money now is to sue Microsoft. Yeah, find something about Microsoft that bothers you (and likely others), find a Judge which is a Mac fanboy, and just throw them a...