I’m sure you’ve heard of Google’s new communication platform Wave. If not, check out the video below.
Google Wave is still at the invite/early stages and is not yet publicly available, but that hasn’t stopped a few enterprising folks creating ‘The Complete Guide to Google Wave‘ (free online user manual)! Well done!
Story source: Mashable.com
Further reading: Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?
If you’ve been lucky enough to try Wave let us know what you think.
Twitter have just added a new beta feature called lists. The idea is to help you organise the people you’re following. Lists can be public or private.
To learn more visit mashable’s article: HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists.
It is also possible to embed these lists on your blog and website: Twitter Lists Widget: Embed Your Lists on Your Blog
Another nice article from http://net.tutsplus.com/: Feeds 101.
RSS feeds are a most if you want to organise how you view and check your web information.
Personally, I use Google Reader (online) and Thunderbird (desktop install). What do you use?
http://net.tutsplus.com have kindly provided a list of ‘30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners’. A very nice refresher on how it should be done.
Also, checkout their ‘20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners‘ post.
If you know of other similar lists or best practices please share.
The Google story in just over two minutes.
Further reading:
Guardian: Breakfast briefing: Schmidt predicts, Google in brief and safer passwords
Before writing web content consider the following five helpful tips from http://www.wmictchampion.org.uk/5tips:
Any other useful points please share (my call for action).
If monitoring what topics people are twittering about is useful to you then read “Tools of the Trade: Twitter tracking“; a short article from the Guardian.
The tools:
If you know of others, please share.
A social media slide show by David Cushman, enjoy!
Given the recent phishing attacks we are hearing about here’s a very useful Q and A from the BBC tech website to help you get up to speed: Q&A: Phishing for your precious data
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