Google Pulp Wave Fiction

So I finally managed to get hold of a Google Wave invite (thx @prfection). After reading some of the comments Google Wave got in the blogosphere I wasn’t really that excited anymore and someone even referred to it as an improved chat box.

Google Wave

But that’s because everyone was anticipating Google Wave as the next social network or social networking 2.0 which it obviously isn’t. Google Wave is a real-time online collaboration tool that allows people to work together online. With that in mind I must say Google has done a great job and that it’s a smooth tool to work with. OK, it’s still a little slow at times, but that’s exactly the reason why Google decided to do a soft invite-only release.

This platform has a big future! If you take a look at some of the Wave tools that have been released in the last couple of days you just know Google Wave is going to be big.

An great illustration of what Google Wave can do (at the moment) and what it stands for is the Google Wave Pulp Fiction mashup by WhirledInteractive. Enjoy!


Eat this Microsoft…

Rymdreglage’s 8-bit Lego Trip

Lego is still cool, and so are stopmotion movies. Rymdreglage, a Swedish band, invested more than 1500 hours in combining both by making a movie clip for their 8-bit Trip song:


Funny detail, since this great movie got so much attention, their website is down:

Hello, this Is Rymdreglages new fancy website. But why this extraordinary with text and everything? Well after five years you people out there found us, at last, and start to visit this page. This site was obviously not made for that and reached the maximum limit of bit flow in one hour or something.

But it wasn´t much to see anyway. If you want to listen to the rest of our 44 songs and not only 8-bit trip (well 2 of the 44 is on youtube) you just have to be a little patient. Hopefully they will be on Spotify and Itunes and other modern places on what we call ajnternejt in a few days.

So thank you very much for visit our youtube chanel and keep on enjoying this site. If you stare at this text with crossed eyes for an hour or two you maybe able to reach a higher level but I am not sure.
2009-08-24 (just four month left to Christmas) /Rymdreglage.

In the meantime you can still find Rymdreglage on MySpace.

Facebook manners and you: please behave on Facebook…

Alice, Timmy, Donna and Facebook relationship etiquette.

Have good Facebook manners and the electric friendship generator will be more fun for everyone…


The Rules:

  1. Don’t change your relationship status without consulting the other person
  2. Don’t post embarrassing photographs of other people
  3. Be discreet when posting messages on another person’s wall
  4. Don’t steal other people’s friends
  5. Don’t start hate groups

Strange new Twitter layout

A few days ago, Twitter showed me some strange layout. Beneath the “What are you doing?” box, there was a second box that provided a possibility to send a direct message (or DM in Twitteronian) to one of your contacts. I tried it, it didn’t work, and when I reloaded the page it was gone. Never seen it again since…

Luckily I managed to take a screenshot:

New Twitter layout test?

I guess Twitter is testing some sort of new layout. Anyone who has seen the same thing?

Facebook, don’t be evil!

“Don’t be evil“, the informal corporate Google motto, doesn’t seem to count for social networking website Facebook. While (online) privacy is becoming a bigger concern day after day, Facebook changed their Terms of Use in favor of, yes you guessed it, Facebook.

Facebook new Terms of Use

Most people don’t seem to know (or recognize) they give up the rights to everything they post on Facebook:

“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.“

But nothing new so far. The really new thing in the Facebook Terms of Use is that deleting your content or even your account is no longer preventing Facebook from using it. These lines were removed during the last revision:

“You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.“

In other words, everything you post, share and upload to Facebook will be Facebook property… FOREVER…

Puts things in a whole different perspective, doesn’t it? If you don’t like the new Terms of Use, join the People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS) group on, indeed, Facebook…