Google Broadening Wave Access With GMail-Like Rollout
Sep 29, 2009 at 11:00am ET by Greg Sterling
As we previously reported, starting tomorrow Google will widen access to its innovative communications platform Wave, offering 100,000 new invitations to use the service. Many of these people in turn will be allowed to invite others to join as well, reminiscent of how GMail propagated. (It's wise for Google to allow these new users to invite friends and family because you effectively can't use Wave without contacts on the system.) Those who will gain full access tomorrow will apparently be developers, early users who provided feedback and some Google Apps customers.
My earlier blog post pro [...]
Filed in: Google: Gears, Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: iGoogle
Google Expanding Access To Wave Soon, First “Hands-On” Impressions
Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25pm ET by Greg Sterling
At the end of next month, September 30, Google will expand the current "developer preview" of Google Wave to roughly 100,000 consumer users. According to Google, "included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps." In anticipation of this wider release, Danny and I got some time with Lars Rasmussen and the rest of the Google Wave team the other day.
By way of background, Danny and I wrote about Wave when it was first announced earlier this year and then offered some third-party developer observations.
Without doing a full "review," I'll offer [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Gadgets, Google: Gmail, Google: iGoogle, Top News
Google Rolls Out Social Gadgets Quickly
Aug 12, 2009 at 3:17pm ET by Greg Sterling
Last week we first wrote about social gadgets rolling out in Australia. Marissa Mayer, whom I spoke with at the time, said the timing of a broader rollout was uncertain. Well it's here today:
Your friends are able to see what you share or do in your social gadgets either by having the same gadgets on their homepages, or through a new feed called Updates. Updates can include your recently shared photo albums, your favorite comics strips, your travel plans for the weekend and more. To help you manage who you are sharing with, we've created a Friends group. You can add and edit friends in this g [...]
Filed in: Google: iGoogle
Marissa Mayer On iGoogle’s New “Social Gadgets”
Aug 6, 2009 at 3:04am ET by Greg Sterling
This morning Google is rolling out a program in Australia enabling developers to create "social gadgets" that permit sharing, collaboration and groups on the iGoogle homepage. The social gadgets will come to the US and other markets in the future, but the timing is undetermined. I spoke yesterday with Google's Marissa Mayer about the new initiative, built on the Open Social platform.
At the outset there are apparently 12 social gadgets, eight of which were created by third party developers. For example, there's a chess gadget and other casual game gadgets -- casual games have become huge on [...]
Filed in: Google: Gadgets, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Orkut, Google: iGoogle, Top News
Yet Another Mobile iGoogle For iPhones & Android
Jun 12, 2009 at 8:52am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Google Mobile Blog announced yet another shot at an optimized version of iGoogle for iPhone and Android devices. About six months ago, Google quietly dropped the iPhone optimized iGoogle, before that, they had an optimized version since January 2008.
After living without an iPhone/Android version of iGoogle for about six months, Google came out with a nice look for the new iGoogle mobile. Here is a look at it:
To try this out on your iPhone or Android device, go to to igoogle.com in your mobile browser and tap "Try the new Mobile iGoogle!"
Further coverage of this story at T [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: iGoogle
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