New "Wave" E-Mailing

One of the most interesting experiments in electronic communication I've ever seen is coming from Google. It's called Wave. It's real-time e-mail. What that means is that as you're typing a message in Wave, either a new message or a reply to one you've got, the person you're writing to can see what you're typing as you type it.

Sounds awful, right?

You don't have to use Wave in this real-time way. It also works as a standard e-mail app. What's really different about Wave is that if you're replying to a message and the person you're replying to happens to be online and sees that their message thread is getting updated, they can jump into the conversation at that point, and change what was an email conversation into, functionally, an instant message conversation or a chat.

You're still thinking: this is crazy. I know you are. You don't want to be interrupted. Life is too frothy already. Well, you're right, it is. Life is busy. But Wave really is different. It changes the way you look at e-mail. You no longer see a message as a static thing. You write differently knowing that your message can become an IM at any moment.

It works. If you're responding to a message and the other person comes online and wants to change that dialog into a real-time chat, you can resolve whatever it is you were discussing right then, and clear the conversation from your inbox for good.

 

Another coworker of mine is also on the Wave preview, and our experience with it was illustrative. I started to send him a message, writing as if it was an e-mail. He saw I was writing to him, and chimed in before I was done. We had a little on-screen dialog and agreed to collaborate on a story. In the message itself, we wrote the story together, each writing our own thoughts while we were watching the other contribute as well. Wave helped us do our job more quickly and efficiently than any other system we've ever used.

There were some snags. The message got large and there was one time with my coworker was typing hoping I would respond, but I didn't see his message coming in since I was further down in the document. And in other Wave messages with multiple users at once, the multiple streams of updating text got overwhelming; I found it best to step away from the message until it calmed down, so I could later reader it at my own pace.


Wave is about more than real-time e-mail. It's also a new platform for messaging in which all replies and conversations around a message happen in the messages themselves, not in copies that are sent all over the Net, as in regular e-mail. Multiple recipients of a message can talk within the message, and nobody will get out of sync.

Wave right now is still closed to most users, and everything I've seen so far is experimental. Many of the features in the preview I have access to don't work. And Wave isn't yet connected to other communication systems, like regular e-mail, which means that the only people I can Wave with are other people on Wave as well. So we don't yet know what using wave will be like once it gets crowded like e-mail, and we haven't yet seen how spammers will attack it. Also, the technology behind Wave is far more demanding on servers and the Internet itself than regular e-mail or chat, so we don't know if the technology will work at Scale.

But Wave really is a contemporary re-think of e-mail. A lot of people won't like it. A lot of people didn't like e-mail either when it first showed up, nor IM, or Facebook or Twitter. But people will find real uses for Wave or whatever it becomes, and it's one of the most interesting new takes on communication I've ever seen. When it comes out later this year, give it a fair shake. Even if you don't like it, it will make you think differently about e-mail.

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New Social Media WAVE from Google (Google Wave)

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.Here's a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.

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

 

 

What is a wave?

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

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

 

Some key technologies in Google Wave

 

   

 

Real-time collaboration	Natural language tools	Extending Google Wave
Concurrency control technology lets all people on a wave edit rich media at the same time. Watch the tech video	Server-based models provide contextual suggestions and spelling correction. Watch the tech video	Embed waves in other sites or add live social gadgets, thanks to Google Wave APIs.

New in Labs: Automatic message translation

Back in the early days of human existence, before language had fully developed, our caveman ancestors probably did a lot of grunting. Language, and thus life, were pretty simple: watch out for that saber-toothed tiger ("Blorg! AIYA!!!"); stop riding the wooly mammoth and help me pick some berries ("Argh. Zagle zorg!"); man, it's cold in this Ice Age ("Brrrr.").

Somewhere along the line, all those grunts diverged into thousands of distinct languages, and life became both richer and more complicated. And for the last few eons or so, we've struggled to communicate in a multilingual world. Which brings us to today. Since the heart and soul of Gmail is about helping people communicate, I'm proud to announce the integration of Google's automatic translation technology directly into Gmail.

 

Simply enable "Message Translation" from the Labs tab under Settings, and when you receive an email in a language other than your own, Gmail will help you translate it into a language you can understand. In one click.

 

 

If all parties are using Gmail, you can have entire conversations in multiple languages with each participant reading the messages in whatever language is most comfortable for them. It's not quite the universal translators we're so fond of from science fiction, but thanks to Google Translate, it's an exciting step in the right direction. I use this feature everyday to help me work with teammates around the globe (they think my Japanese is much better than it really is...shhhh!).

Whether you're reading a family update from inlaws on the other side of the world, working with a multinational team, or just trying to bring about world peace, don't worry, Gmail's got your back.

World's Largest Model Rocket Launch Is Blazing Success

At nearly four stories tall, the world's largest model rocket was only a tenth the size of a real rocket. But the craft's April 25 launch in Price, Maryland, was no small feat.

A replica of a NASA Saturn V rocket, the massive model broke the world record for the tallest and heaviest model rocket that's ever been launched and recovered—36 feet (11 meters) and 1,648 pounds (750 kilograms), respectively.

After soaring to 4,441 feet (1,354 meters), the machine broke into several parts, as planned, and deployed parachutes before landing about a half mile (0.8 kilometer) from the launchpad, amid loud clapping from spectators.

The model's designer, Ohio auto-body specialist Steve Eves, is a child of the space race—"something that's stuck in my mind all these years," he said.

But Eves, 51, didn't get into high-power rocketry until the early 1990s. And when he did, he had no inkling how big his pet project would get, he said.

The giant model and Saturday's launch—attended by about 5,000 spectators—cost U.S. $30,000, much of it covered by donations.

Eves planned the project as a tribute to the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned trip to the moon, which launched on July 16, 1969.

During 13 NASA missions in the 1960s and '70s, the original Saturn V rockets—still the most powerful in history—never failed. In Eves's eyes, that makes the Saturn V class "the greatest rocket that mankind has ever built."

Remembering seeing a Saturn V in person, Eves said: "Until you stood at the base of one those rockets, [you can't] imagine the courage it took" for people to take them into space. "It's mind-boggling."

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Fatty Foods May Boost Memory

Feeling forgetful? Munch on a fatty snack.

A hormone released during the digestion of certain fats triggers long-term memory formation in rats, a new study says.

Researchers found that administering a compound produced in the small intestine called oleoylethanolamide (OEA) to rats improved memory retention during two different tasks.

When cell receptors activated by OEA were blocked, the animals' performance decreased.

Though the study involved rats, OEA's effects should be similar in other animals, including humans, said study team member Daniele Piomelli, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine.

Follow the Fat

The team suspects OEA's memory-enhancing activity likely evolved to help animals remember where and when they ate a fatty meal, so they could return to that spot later.

Fats are crucial for a variety of biological functions and structures. While the modern human diet is now rich in fats, such foods are actually rare in nature.

"It makes sense that nature evolved a system for strengthening memories associated with the places and context where fats are gathered," Piomelli told National Geographic News.

While Piomelli doesn't recommend that people binge on fast food to improve memory, his team's findings could explain why kids who eat breakfast and mid-morning snacks generally perform better in school.

"Studies show that it's not because they learn better, but because they remember better," Piomelli said.

In the future, scientists could use OEA or OEA-like compounds as medicines to boost memory or treat diseases that affect memory.

"One idea would be to [use drugs] to activate the same receptor that OEA activates, or perhaps give nutrition that produces enough OEA to cause the same [memory] effect," Piomelli said.

The research is detailed this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

First 3-D Pictures of Solar Explosions Created

 

 

Ionized helium rises from the sun on September 29, 2008, in an image from the STEREO stereo spacecraft.

Other STEREO pictures are being used to create the first 3-D images of solar storms, NASA said in April 2009. The 3-D images should help shorten warning times for harmful space weather headed for Earth.

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Twin satellites have captured the first 3-D pictures of solar storms, NASA announced today.

The new technology will allow for earlier warnings about solar storms that can disrupt GPS signals and power grids, damage satellites, and bombard astronauts with solar radiation, experts said.

The new data come from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), a pair of spacecraft deployed in fall 2006. Not unlike human eyes, the satellites' two points of view allow for combination images that render scenes in three dimensions.

So far, the STEREO siblings have imaged solar storms, aka coronal mass ejections, aka CMEs. (See solar storm pictures from the STEREO craft.)

"Before this unique mission, measurements and the subsequent data of a CME observed near the sun had to wait until the ejections arrived at Earth, three to seven days later," said Angelos Vourlidas, a solar physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and a STEREO project scientist, in a statement.

"Now we can see a CME from the time it leaves the solar surface until it reaches Earth, and we can reconstruct the event in 3-D directly from the images," added Vourlidas, who presented the new findings during a teleconference with other mission scientists. Their work will be published in an upcoming special issue of the journal Solar Physics.

Image courtesy NGC, NASA