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.

When to use Google Wave

There are tons of ways to use Google Wave–here are just a few examples to get you thinking

ORGANIZING EVENTS – Keep a single copy of ideas, suggested itinerary, menu and RSVPs, rather than using many different tools. Use gadgets to add weather, maps and more to the event.

GROUP PROJECTS – Collaboratively work in real time to draft content, discuss and solicit feedback all in one place rather than sending email attachments and creating multiple copies that get out of sync.

PHOTO SHARING – Drag and drop photos from your desktop into a wave. Share with others. Use the slideshow viewer. Everyone on the wave can add their photos, too. It is easy to make a group photo album in Google Wave.

MEETING NOTES – Prepare a meeting agenda together, share the burden of taking notes and record decisions so you all leave on the same page. Team members can follow the minutes in real time, or review the history using Playback.

BRAINSTORMING – Bring lots of people into a wave to brainstorm – live concurrent editing makes the quantity of ideas grow quickly! It is easy to add rich content like videos, images, URLs or even links to other waves. Discuss and then work together to distill down to the good ideas.

INTERACTIVE GAMES – Add a gadget to a wave to play live interactive games with your friends (we’re hooked on Sudoku!). See everyone’s moves as they make them in a fast-paced game or take a break and come back later.

What is the Google Wave API?

The Google Wave API allows developers to use and enhance Google Wave through two primary types of development:

Google Wave is currently available in a developer preview as the APIs and product continue to evolve. Accounts on the developer sandbox will be given out to people intending to build with the Google Wave APIs prior to the public release.

For more information about the capabilities and use cases for each development option, consult the Wave Developer’s Guide.

Google Wave homepage

Featured extensions – here

Request an invitation to Google Wave – here

Commodore64 is back!

Now available for Iphone, it comes with 8 games for free:

• Dragons Den
• Le Mans
• Jupiter Lander
• Arctic Shipwreck
• Jack Attack
• International Soccer
• International Basketball
• International Tennis.

KEY FEATURES:

• Original Commodore 64 game graphics
• Original SID sound
• Auto-save, to continue exactly where you left off
• Realistic joystick
• Portrait and Landscape play
• Vertical and Fullscreen gaming (auto rotate for iPod users)
• and much more…

You can find it here

There are two commonly accepted definitions of Augmented Reality today. One was given by Ronald Azuma in 1997. Azuma’s definition says that Augmented Reality

• combines real and virtual
• is interactive in real time
• is registered in 3D

Additionally Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino defined Milgram’s Reality-Virtuality Continuum in 1994. They describe a continuum that spans from the real environment to a pure virtual environment. In between there are Augmented Reality (closer to the real environment) and Augmented Virtuality (is closer to the virtual environment).

More recently, the term augmented reality has been blurred a bit due to the increased interest of the general public in AR.

definition from Wikipedia

The first Augmented reality application for Iphone.

open source projects:

The Augmented Reality Tool Kit – ARToolKit captures images from video sources, optically tracks markers in the images, and composites them with computer-generated content using OpenGL. Dual-licensed, under the GPL, plus commercially by ARToolworks, Inc.

• download at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit
• Flash AS3 ported version FLARToolkit is available here
• http://flash.tarotaro.org/blog/ – other Flartoolkit examples and other resources

more from the Web:

• http://layar.com – Layar is a free application available for the T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.