This morning at Google I/O G unveiled a developer preview of Google Wave, a new collaboration and communication product. Google Wave introduces a new platform built around hosted conversations called waves–this model enables people to communicate and work together in new and more effective ways. On top of that, with the Google Wave APIs, developers can take advantage of this collaborative system by building on the Google Wave platform.

Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

G’s five-person “startup” team emerged with a prototype. And now, after more than two years of expanding ideas, G team, and technology, G give developers an early preview of Google Wave.

A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

The Google Wave APIs come in two flavors: Embed and Extensions and Embed. With Embed, you’re able to bring waves into your own site through a simple JavaScript API. For example, embedding a wave in a webpage is a good way to encourage a discussion among the visitors. With Extensions, you’re able to write programs, which are packaged as Robots or Gadgets, that provide rich functionality inside the Google Wave web client.

check out on www.waveprotocol.org:

• • Draft Protocol Specification — This is an early draft and will definitely change
  • Community Principles — Understand how this open source project works
  • Architecture Whitepapers — Learn more about the components of Google Wave

Well apart from all this press release and technical jargon, from a layman’s point of view, G Wave seems to be the Giant’s take on social networking in real time, some of the online domains left where it is still not a leader. All these fancy terms seem to be extended towards a creation of a more fancier facebook with more multimedia integration and better chat and other sharing capabilities. On a second thought, G Wave seems more like a conglomeration of existing G technologies (chat, docs and more). Hmmm, too early to say anything. Check out the official stuff over here..

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/

http://code.google.com/apis/wave/

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/05/hello-world-meet-google-wave.html

Mike Tyson‘s 4-year-old daughter is on life support after being found by her 7-year-old brother hanging from a treadmill cord, according to police.

Exodus Tyson is in critical condition, according to FOX News , which first reported the story.

Exodus was playing near the exercise equipment while her mother was cleaning in a separate room at 10:30 this morning. The mom sent the brother to look for the 4 year old, Fox reports.

After finding her in distress, he alerted his mother, who found Exodus on a treadmill with what has been described as a cable around her neck, according to police, who call it a “tragic accident.”

She immediately took the cable off her daughter, called 911 and began performing CPR.

Exodus was taken to St. Joe’s Hospital.

Tyson was not at home at the time of the incident.

He was in Las Vegas but flew to Phoenix immediately after learning of the accident.

source: Y! OMG!

UPDATE:1900 Hrs IST, May 26, 2009: More phishing sites come up. This time to the likes of

www vingers(enter dot)ru

After the latest phishing scams on facebook involving the .at domains, the next generation of the same scam seem to be using .be domain names.
The .be domain names that ve come to light so far are but not limited to

• whiteflash.be
• goldbase.be
• sweeter.be
• bestspace.be

These domains are all operating out of the same ip at 211.95.78.98.
This ip temporarily blocked the sites but the .be sites seem to be up and running again. Facebook is yet to curb these links as of 0130hrs IST, May 25th, 2009.

The latest message format is

Look at this
wwww whiteflash be

Anyway, there is no need to click on any of such .be or erstwhile .at links or put in your facebook username and passwords.
If you accidentally did that, then change you facebook password immediately. If it has already been changed by the rogue malware (there have been reports to this effect), then you can use the lost password link to reset your facebook password

http://www.facebook.com/security

Picked it up from a facebook album.

Invalid URL
The requested URL “/”, is invalid.

Reference #9.7ed17a5c.1242933701.0

Thats what you get when you try to access blog.facebook .com as of 0052 hrs IST, may 22, 2009. So