Mechanics is not one of my favourite topics, but engineering always attracts me. I just recently watch this video about differential and loved it, here you go;
(Don’t be fooled with the beginning of the video and watch till the end.)
I am not using Google Wave, and currently even if I would have enough contacts I am not finding it worth using it at the moment. The topic is actually not Google Wave it self, but what it thought me by having some invitations…
I see this picture every morning (UPDATE: now it is removed, but it stayed there for a long time), it is standing in front of office in the building. It says “By 2010, the amount of digitized information in the world will double every 11 hours.”
Could it be real? If it is 11 hours in 2010 then it should be let’s say; 20 hours now, wow! So in 2010 the amount of digitized information will double the double less then a day right? Is it going to increase exponential, is this what we are suppose to understand? Let’s be optimistic and assume it is going to increase linear (at least in 2010). Do you think companies those are somehow involved in producing storage media can double their capacities in a day?
No matter what, it seems storing the information doesn’t seem to be a problem at the moment (at least no one is concerned so far I know). But managing is. Without an accurate search engine I think the web couldn’t be such attractive for everyone.
But for me, nowadays, it is not important how the information is stored or how it is managed or searched… How it flows around in the web is the important point for me. How fast, how often, from where to where…
I realized how fast in fact the information is flowing in the web by my previous post. As you know ‘Google Wave’ is pretty hot keywords nowadays. Just after I made my post telling I have accounts I get many requests. Normally my blog is visited a few times a day. I was expecting the same number of visitors after I made my post and maybe a couple of requests from visitors. But this time it was interestingly different and unexpected. Just after I made the post I started to get comment notification mails. First I though these comments belong to some ‘Google Wave’ account hungry bots which have in fact have my blog address in their database, crawling my site often and found something useful and made the comments… I carefully checked comments if they sound bot language or not but they seemed quite human written. But how fast you guys made those comments? Were you sitting in front of my blog page and hitting refresh every other second? (Despite all those pinging/notification mechanisms of blogs it felt people could not be aware so fast…)
After getting surprised for a while I remembered Google’s recent results feature (Search for something and then click ‘Show options’ then click the ‘Latest’ from the left, now twitter and others are there too). I searched for Google Wave and YES my blog address with previous post was there… But still I wanted to confirm. First I send invitations to all comment owners then I send them email asking how they had find my blog. Majority of them replied with an unexpected response: Twitter (Only one of them said that he has used recent results from Google). Yes, I made a tweet after the post, mentioned my blog address and forgot it at all… I don’t have many followers, if I don’t count fake accounts, and comment owners are not from followers anyway. But apparently people are using Twitter search a lot and getting very up to date results, and now Google supports real time Twitter search results too… This was a nice experience for me to see how people are more connected to each other wherever they are on earth regardless of time…
Internet is evolving faster… Number of mobile devices, in fact the number of mobile devices which can really! consume the web is increasing rapidly… Applications are moving to browser, PCs are getting lighter and more mobile…
YES, by 2010, the amount of digitized information in the world will double every 11 hours, and the digitized information will flow around by doubling its flow speed in every 11 hours…
So the question is; you surfed on ocean enough, can you swim in a fast river?
I recently get my invitation from Google, and I have been playing with Google Wave for a while…
As you can read from rest of the web it still needs bug fixes and performance improvement but these are not reasons not to experiment it.
Just leave a comment with your email to this post for me to invite you to surf on Wave!
Wave Invitation
