A friend sent this to me last night. I have been complaining about Novell for months now. It looks like Novell has been working on a real time collaboration tool for quite some time now. Honestly it looks better than Wave and has more functionality (please forgive me oh great Google gods). According to sources [...]

Yesterday Google Wave went down for maintenance for about two hours forcing hundreds if not thousands to utilize slower, more outdated forms of communication, like Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook. I’m not quite sure how those older social media sites managed the influx of traffic, but kudos to them. Job well done!

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With the rise of Web 2.0 social media has exploded on the internet. It permeates almost every aspect of your internet experience. The biggest question here is how can we utilize social media to enhance our online and offline lives? I have always been interested in how social media can help teachers and students achieve [...]

Soon after Microsoft announced a deal with Twitter to include real time updates in Bing searches, Google fell in step as well. I have to wonder though. Will this be good or bad for these search engines? Will it bring us the information that we are looking for, or will it rend junk? At any [...]

I’ve been asked about Google Wave quite a bit lately. There are so many features to it that it is hard to condense into a few short sentences. So, I decided to find an overview vid to better explain this new innovation. Web 3.0 here we come.

Here’s two funny web series from a group called The Big Honkin.
The first is a creative take on super heroes called Defenders of Stan. There are 20 episodes in all.
The second series asks, “What if Google was your creepy roommate?”

Google Listen is a new app for the android platform for listening to podcasts and general audio feeds on the tubes. Google claims that they will index ALL web audio in the future. Right now the podcasts etc. are fairly limited but it is “brand spanking shiny car” new
From the Labs Page.
“Listen is a research [...]

The 80’s had the Valley Girl and all the slang that went with that. Then there was the 90’s and Rednecks were the cool kids on the block. Now is the age of the Geek. How well do you know your geek speak? Are you a guru or simply a padewan when it come to [...]

Vanish is a project where you set a timer on a blog post, email or even a facebook entry. When the timer runs out the information is encrypted and no one can read it afterwards. Sounds good to me.
From the website: “For example, using the Firefox Vanish plugin, a user can create an email, a [...]

OK, so it’s not really a true BETA phase for our site since we are not promoting software. However, we at the JUL would love any and all feedback from our followers. What do you like, don’t like, and what haven’t you seen on here that you think needs to be here?
Tired of websites not [...]