Google Wave Aims to be the Next Unifying Platform

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: T2 Communications

This week, Google Wave is being released in beta testing to 100,000 users.  Originally unveiled at a developer conference earlier this year,  Google is taking the foundations of e-mail and adding to it critical elements of instant messaging, social networking and file sharing.  Google touts it as e-mail as if it was created today.

And while there continues to be bugs that need to be worked out, this large scale test is a final step toward the release of a new, major communication tool.  Much like Twitter, SMS, IM and Twitter, Google Wave stands to change the way we interact.  How will this new experience enhance how we communicate in more socially conscious environment?  More importantly, how does it benefit the end user versus other communication tools…

The Danger of Being Too Connected

Monday, 09. 14. 2009  –  Category: Dial611

As a society, we are more connected than we have ever been. With social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook reaching millions of Americans, we have instant access to data. Soon, as I discussed in my previous article, that access will be mobile—making us experts anywhere, anytime. But is all of this connectivity worthwhile?  Do we really need to know each piece of breaking news as it happens?

More importantly, what are we trading away for this instant access?

Deteriorating Interpersonal Communication: Let’s face it–when faced with talking with someone or sending them a message (whether via text, tweets, postings or e-mail), we increasingly choose the latter. And while we like to rationalize that it is out of politeness so as to not intrude, the result is…

What Happens When All Data is Mobile

Wednesday, 09. 2. 2009  –  Category: Dial611

Just a few years ago, smartphones barely existed in the wireless industry.  Research in Motion’s Blackberry was a leader in the space, but its product was focused on business clients who wanted to stay in touch while out of the office.  Flash forward to the present day, and even the casual mobile user has expanded their use beyond simply making phone calls.  Texts, e-mail, downloads and web surfing services have all grown tremendously.

With the introduction of user friendly devices like the iPhone and the Palm Pre, and the expansion of Research in Motion into more personal devices, children and parents alike are now seeing smartphones as more of a need than a want.  This means more connectivity, more applications and more data at everyone’s fingertips.

But…

The Coming Three Screen Convergence

Monday, 07. 27. 2009  –  Category: Enversa Companies

“The times, oh they are a changing,” sang Bob Dylan decades ago as the 60s ushered in all kinds of radical new changes. One of the most radical of these changes was the shift in telecommunication technology, which eventually evolved into that vast entity of webs and tubes known colloquially as the “Internet”. The Internet has caused a major upheaval in the way that the consumers, media outlets, and people everywhere communicate. And according to Andrew Lack, the former president of NBC News, it’s going to keep changing – and for the better.

Today is the era of Google, of YouTube, of Facebook and of Twitter; an age in which all the consumer dictates a vast majority of the content, rather than being spoon-fed stories, articles and…