Google Wave on Ulitzer

The recent news on Google stopping further development on their offering Google Wave did create mixed responses. Thousands of fans even registering support for it and critics liked it. However my interest was on the messaging platform that it used. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) has finally come of age and given its high profile usage such as Google Wave and Talk, there is a thought process if XMPP can be used within organizations for middleware or EAI. It might sound surprising on how a protocol that is used in Internet Messaging services could be used in EAI, but XMPP has evolved and extended itself in the Message oriented Middleware (MOM) domain as well. In my opinion this could be a new dimension for EAI. At present most of the popular MOMs are Queue based such as Java Messaging Service (JMS) where the Architecture principle is centralization. ... (more)

Google's Out to Catch a Wave

Google has a new open communications and collaboration platform up its sleeve that the public won't see for a few months called Google Wave. It combines features of e-mail, instant messaging and document sharing. Conversations, so to speak, wouldn't be conversations any more; they'll be near-real-time "waves" that users invite their ever-widening circle of contacts to join and share all kinds of content. The widgetry, which Google hopes other people will build other services on and federate waves, is based on hosted XML documents and supports concurrent modifications. Google will... (more)

And Then Came the Browser-in-a-Browser

Google, whose Chrome can claim all of 2.8% of the browser market, has come up with an open source plug-in that runs Chrome inside Microsoft's still dominant Internet Explorer. How's that for brass. It calls the thing Chrome Frame and says it works with IE6, 7 and 8 on Vista and XP SP2, but it's really supposedly targeted at the eight-year-old IE6 mandated by many companies. As subversive as it sounds, InformationWeek says, most web pages won't respond because they need a meta-tag using the X-UA-compatible header. It also reportedly louses up IE though when it does work it's way f... (more)

Google Goggles: Tag Killer?

Google on Ulitzer Google on Ulitzer - Mobile Image Recognition (MIR) looks certain to hit the big time now that Google have embraced the technology as part of their new visual search service called Google Goggles. As with any MIR app you point your mobile phone camera at something - Google gives examples of landmarks, books, business cards, artworks etc. - and the image is checked against a back end database of images to resolve to Stewart McKienoreply@blogger.com0 ... (more)

Google To Buy Key VoIP House

Google said Tuesday that it means to buy Norway's publicly traded VoIP codec house Global IP Solutions Holding AB (GIPS) for $68.2 million cash, a move that could put it in contention with Skype not to mention the telecom companies that are selling its phones. The deal, which represents a 27.5% premium over GIPs' closing price Friday, will also give Google ownership of parts of the technology underlying the instant messaging systems used by Yahoo, AOL and Baidu. Global IP Solutions makes the real-time processing software for voice and video calls over the Internet, widgetry used... (more)