Very Cool... But Will it Work? Google Wave

On May 27, during the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. It's called Google Wave.

From Google:

About Google Wave
Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.

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

There is also a great article about the announcement on TechCrunch named "Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web."

Featured on Mashable... Top 18 Social Media Resources for Developers

For those of us who are development savvy, or if you are are not a developer but the DIY type when it comes to building out web sites, Mashable once again wrangles up some great resources for the social cause. This time the focus is for resources developers can leverage for their social offerings.

From the article:

The stereotypical view of a coder is that of an anti-social hacker, sitting alone in a darkened room, banging away on a keyboard by the glow of a monitor (or six) until all hours of the night. But that’s not true to life - today’s programmers, developers, and code enthusiasts have fully embraced social media. Whether you have a simple code question or are embarking on a collaborative code project to build your company’s next big product, code is best done learning from and working with others.

80+ Online Resources for the Digital Enterprise

Here's a very comprehensive list from WebMama of online resources that all of us (creative types included) can leverage. Best of all, most of these tools are FREE!

From WebMama:

There are a plethora of tools available on the Web to help you develop and optimize your Web site, and during this miserable economy, it’s especially important to have all the tools, tricks and tips at hand and easily accessible.

That’s why we’ve created this list of over 80 resources to make your life easier. You’ll find everything from general site research tools, to analytics, to social media monitoring, to technical performance; many of which can be used for competitive analysis, visibility and growth.

Featured on Mashable: 85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow

Here's a collection of designers who Tweet in service of others in their field. I'm planning to follow a few of these fine individuals myself... :)

The power of Twitter (besides figuring out how to monetize it) is exactly what these people are doing. Designers, get connected! If not with these 85 "strangers" then I challenge you to find a way to use Twitter like this in your own "community" of people you do know.

Go connect!