Windows Mesh and Google Wave, will this be the next revolution in the lives of internet users. in the last 15 years, we have seen many changes in user behavior on the Internet. every few years the dynamic world on the web changes and the change always proves to be for good. It all started with the giants fighting for dominating the internet thru the capability of their browsers but the innovators proved them wrong. Now it is not the browser which is important but the application running in it.

Browsers changed from Netscape to IE to Crome. The web 2.0 got introduced with a bang and many powerful platform formed from Trip advisor to My Space to Facebook and now the war has begun to build a next generation of collaborative platforms. The time is very near when we all will rely on virtual desktops and use central cloud space to save all our data.

google_wave_logoWindows Mesh provides a live desktop to all users where they can not only upload their files but connect multiple desktops and even mobiles (launching soon) to access them in synchronous mode. The live folders is available on all devices at the same time and multiple users can access these at the same time. LiveMeshLogin

Google has gone a step beyond by launching Google Wave. Google Wave is a live stream of data entered by different users and shared with multiple users at the same time. It came with a huge wow factor of showing real time message typing by the other user and synchronizing the wave with multiple blogs and application using a common API. you can not only work with messages but also with photos and live chatting. Google has found the real problem of data collaboration by using central tree based data stores on the cloud.

With these new collaborating platforms getting formalized, we are sure to see a revolution in the web space soon. The time will tell who rides this wave and when.

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Am I cheating?

by Faraz on September 14, 2009

I love Google Reader. If I was the King of England, I would have considered an en-masse knighthood for the team that integrated Reader with Gears.
That said, any fair analysis of my RSS addiction will show that my usage has tailed-off in an inverse-hockey-stick pattern over the past few months. I suffer from an extreme case “BS Fatigue”; 487 blogs are a lot to keep up with and when most of them are trying to fill you in with the latest and greatest in design inspiration, best practices in strategic planning, game-changing management advice, low-cost ‘lifehacking’, high performance marketing, “web x.0″ to the newest concepts in resource management, your head begins to spin and you can no longer find value in all the information that is pushed in as structured XML.

I had a great conversation over lunch with a friend who equated RSS( and all information attained without having worked for it!) to cheating; he thought all this easy information kept him from having pure experiences anymore, he wants to screw up and then fix things, not do them right the first time, like the guy who did them best. I’m personally more sensible about these things but I see his point: how about not knowing something already?

People who follow Guy Kawasaki on Twitter might relate to this – calling him loud would be rude, but he is in a manner of saying, extremely enthusiastic about telling you everything about everything in the universe. Most of the stuff that Guy and his team tweet about is interesting but the question remains, is it essential?

I’ve decided to conduct a small social experiment: I’m trimming my feeds to topics of non-professional interest and to blogs belonging to personal friends only. I’ll keep it this way for a month and see if I still have cracking stories to tell when we wait for our meetings to start!

I fear my friend might have scarred me for life with his ‘knowledge is cheating’ hypothesis! Do you see his point?!

Confession: I follow Gul Panag (the movie-star?) on Twitter. I don’t know her personally.

Guest Author - Faraz via http://faraz.org/blog/2009/09/rss-is-cheating/

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