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I had a lot of respect for Ray Ozzie until I read this article titled “Google Wave anti-web”
It seems that Ray has been drowned in the Microsoft Cool-Aid and has been assimilated by the MS Borg.
Ray Ozzie created Lotus Notes and Groove. Two very well respected and useful collaboration tools. However, a number of statements [...]

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I’ve been reading what I can about Google Wave and it looks to have some really nice features for collaboration on so many different levels. I’ve missed a real collaboration tool since Groove was purchased by Microsoft. I used to use Groove on a daily basis with a number of different people and different projects [...]

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Looks like the Google GMail team is doing some interesting things with HTML5:
The HTML5 draft adds a lot of exciting functionality to browsers. Perhaps the most exciting is adding a way for websites to be launched offline. For devices that have a high bandwidth and highly available connection, offline functionality might not be so important. [...]

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When I first heard of this I dismissed it as I thought they were talking about the demise of email due to Twitter. That would be a ridiculous notion. However, after getting into the presentation further, (found here) I realized Daniel Sandler might be onto something.
From the BirdFeeder website:
Birdfeeder is the prototype implementation of a [...]

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Well, I’ve been a long time Bloglines fan for ages but once again it seems to be having problems updating feeds. This is nothing new in the last month or so as pointed out by the x-cofounder here.
I’ve been forced to checkout Google Reader and so far am liking it. At first I thought there [...]

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