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Today is Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:04 am (U.S. central time).

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
-- Blaise Pascal

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Google Wave

Google Wave, currently in beta, seems to be an effort to combine an online document feature (Google Docs) with a live chat feature (Google Chat). Contacts can collaborate on documents in real time. I haven’t tried it yet, and I wonder if the simultaneous live editing feature doesn’t get a little chaotic.

Anyway, I have a handful of invites left to share, so if anyone wants to try the beta version, send me an e. Google says “Google Wave is more fun when you have others to wave with, so please nominate people you would like to add. Keep in mind that this is a preview so it could be a bit rocky at times. Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick. Happy waving!”

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