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Free Google Wave Invite Giveaway

I’ve been invited to Google Wave months ago but not active =(

What’s Google Wave?

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using 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.

Source : Google

Google Wave is a self-described “personal communication and collaboration tool” announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages, and numerous other extensions. Initially released only to developers, a “preview release” of Google Wave was extended to 100,000 users in September 2009, each allowed to invite twenty to thirty additional users. On the 29th of November 2009, Google accepted most requests submitted soon after the extended release of the technical preview in September 2009, these users have around 8 invites to give.

Source : Wikipedia

Want to get yourself a GoogleWave account? How to get free Google Wave invite?

If you want to be in the wave too , just simply ReTweet about this article with the url (So that other ppl know about it too) and you will get your Google Wave account right away! I have 16 Google Wave Invitations to give away for free now! Get yours here.

That’s it! Of course, I want you to follow me on Twitter @saimatkong to get latest updates and ReTweet (RT) any articles you like here too.

*Google Wave invite delivery could be delayed for few days. I will inform you if you get the Google Wave invitation from me and please be patient and wait for some time to receive yours.

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Sync your BlackBerry with Google Sync Services

Google launched a sync service that will make our life easier that it will be able to sync google services into our mobile phone! Yes, BlackBerry able to sync too.

Synchronize the built-in calendar and address book on your BlackBerry® with your Google account.

* Get your Google Calendar events to your device
* Synchronize your Gmail contacts
* Be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound and vibration using your BlackBerry’s native calendar

1st Step : Browse to http://www.google.com/sync/ and navigate to BlackBerry icon.

2nd Step : Click on Download Google Sync

3rd Step : Change your country to Malaysia then enter your number and click send me a link. Or type this URL into your phone’s browser: m.google.com/sync

Then you just follow the on the instruction to get started! That’s simple to sync and get connected to the world. How to get your Xpax BlackBerry? Find out more here.

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Google truth, the truth of Google's birth – Ten Years Later, A "Third" Google Founder Comes Out Of The Woodwork

Ten Years Later, A “Third” Google Founder Comes Out Of The Woodwork
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by Erick Schonfeld on September 23, 2008

Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the “third” founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself Hubert Chang claims that as an NYU Ph.D student in 1997 he was introduced to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin by Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani. He then helped the two come up with PageRank (the underlying algorithm that powers Google’s search engine), the name Google, and even the business plan.

So why wasn’t his name on the original PageRank paper? Because, he says, he decided to pursue his Ph.D instead. Then when he did finish his Ph.D n 2002 and contacted Google, he got the big brush off from Larry and Sergey’s handlers. (Surprise, surprise). Remember, boys and girls, always ask for a byline.

Is any of this true? I have no idea. It could be a hoax. But I have emails into professor Motwani, Google, and Hubert Chang asking for more details. By his own account, though, it sounds like Chang walked away from Google because he thought it wouldn’t amount to much. His mistake.

Update: A Google spokesperson got back to me with the following (non) response:

Though many people were involved with Google in its early days, it has been well-documented over the past decade that Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in September 1998.

So Google is not denying Chang’s account or calling him a fake.

Update 2: Stanford prof. Rajeev Motwani does a better job distancing Chang from the early days of Google. He came back to me with the following response:

To the best of my knowledge, his claims about being a founder of Google, coming up with the name and/or the business plan etc, are completely unfounded in reality. I am sure I would have noticed a third founder, if one existed, since I was working closely with Larry and Sergey at Stanford the time.

I do recall receiving a couple of emails from Hubert Chang in 1997 or 1998. Its been such a long time that I don’t have any recollection of their contents but it’s probable I shared those emails with Larry and Sergey. In any case, by that time the basic idea of PageRank was already in place and there was a clear intent of building a company around this. I am pretty certain that none of the three of us actually met with Hubert Chang during that time period.

Update 3: A Google spokesperson has given us the following revised statement:

There is no substance to Hubert Chang’s claims – he had no involvement in the creation of Google. Neither Larry or Sergey have any recollection of meeting him – however, given the number of people they’ve met in the last decade it’s impossible to say categorically that they never have. Rajeev Motwani, the Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Stanford, believes he may have shared some emails from Mr. Chang with Larry and Sergey in 1997 or 1998. But in any case PageRank had already been developed by that time, and Larry and Sergey had already decided to start Google

Source : techcrunch.com

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Google Coming To Malaysia?

Search engine Google eyeing Malaysia? Is Google setting up a base in Malaysia for real? That will be good news to all Malaysian and Asians too =)
I hope Google is really consider Malaysia, so they could offer more job opportunities to us too. Google office environment is one of the best in the world! I wanna join! Haha if they ever hire me.

DAVOS: Google Inc is interested to set up a base in Malaysia due to its huge ICT market, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

The Prime Minister said the Government’s development plans for the ICT industry were also in line with the company’s expansion programme.

“I was told that Malaysians formed the highest group of Google users in South-East Asia,” he told Malaysian journalists after meeting the US giant’s CEO Eric Schmidt on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

It is believed the world’s top Internet search engine company was eyeing Malaysia, India or Vietnam to set up its data centre facilities.

Abdullah said the company felt Malaysia was a good place for the base due to its strategic geographical location.

“They want to make their presence felt in Malaysia. It will be a big boost for our ICT industry,” he said.

Meanwhile, the shift of economic power from the West to the East will be one of the key topics of discussion at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Kuala Lumpur on June 15 and 16.

This historic transformation must be handled with care, said Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Isis) Malaysia chairman and CEO Datuk Seri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan.

He said this would ensure it could become a productive, constructive transformation.

The meeting will bring together over 350 global and regional leaders in business, politics and intellectual thinkers to discuss opportunities in Asia and the potential risks.

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