Google Wave???????

Google Wave, what is it?

I have recently received an invitation to use Google Wave, in which some "social networking experts" think it is going to be one of the BIG hits in the coming years!But as a tool, should Google Wave be categorized as:
*An instant messenger?
*A social networking site?
*An online document/project sharing platform?An improvement to Gtalk?Or
* just another communication tool?

Google's official words about Google Wave:

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversationand a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.


Tested it lately. Seems like Google Wave can be used as:

1. A brainstorm tool in which many people speak at the same time for ideas.
2. A communication tool in which a project team with members in different and remote locations can discuss their project and work together.

Google Wave would be a great tool to support the "remote" office idea, after all, when it is used "correctly".

List of 107 Free and Paid Press Release Sites

http://www.prweb.com/ - PRWeb

http://www.pressflash.com/ - PressFlash

http://www.prleap.com/ - PRLeap

http://www.prnewswire.com/ - PR Newswire

http://www.prwebdirect.com/ - PRWeb Direct

http://www.sbwire.com/ - SB Wire

http://www.theopenpress.com/ - TheOpenPress

http://www.hotmicrocap.com/ - Hotmicrocap

http://www.billhartzer.com/ - Billhartzer

http://www.free-press-release.com/ - Free-press-release

http://www.dbusiness.com/pressrelease.htm - D Business

http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/ - Software Marketing Resource

http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/ - Press Release Network

http://www.macgo.net/news/submit.php - Macgo

http://www.devpress.com/addNews.html - Dev Press

http://www.betanews.com/ - Beta News

http://www.softpressrelease.com/ - Soft Press Release

http://www.devarchive.com/ - DevArchive

http://www.ideamarketers.com/ - IdeaMarketers

http://www.i-newswire.com/submit_free.php - I-Newswire

http://www.afreego.com/ - A Free Go

http://www.lunareclipse.net/pressrelease.htm - Lunareclipse

http://www.hspstreet.com/pr/ - HSPstreet

http://www.marketwire.com/ - Market Wire

http://www.mediapost.com/ - Media Post

http://www.baygo.com/press/ - Baygo

http://www.urlwire.com/ - URL Wire

http://www.webwire.com/ - Web Wire

http://www.press-base.com/ - Press Base

http://www.newspad.com/ - News Pad

http://www.storebuilder.co.uk/ - Store Builder

http://www.creativecommons.org/ - Creative Commons

http://www.emediawire.com/ - EMediaWire

http://www.businesswire.com/ - BusinessWire

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi - Pressbox.co.uk

http://www.pressmethod.com/ - Pressmethod

http://www.click2newsites.com/ - Click2NewSites

http://www.newswire.ca/ - Canada Newswire

http://www.cdn-news.com/ - Canadian Corporate News

http://www.malebits.com/ - MB Publishing Press Releases

http://www.internetworldstats.com/press.htm - Internetworldstats

http://www.forrelease.com/ - For Release

http://www.hungarynewswire.com/ - Hungary newswire

http://www.groupweb.com/ - GroupWeb

http://africa.emailwire.com/africa/a...edia_list.html - Africa Newswire Service

http://www.prfree.com/ - PR Free

http://www.openpress.com/ - OpenPress

http://www.downloadjunction.com/submit_press_release - Download Junction

http://www.majon.com/advanced/advanced-pr.html - Advanced Press Release

http://www.itilcommunity.com/modules...me=Submit_News - ITIL Community

http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/ - Press Release Network

http://www.ideasiteforbusiness.com/cpress1.htm - Ideasiteforbusiness

http://www.media-press-release.com/ - Media press releasean

https://www.promaxum.com/promaxum_newsflash.html - Promaxuml

https://www.prudentpressagency.com/ - Prudent Press Agency

http://www.dime-co.com/ - Dime-co.com

http://www.thehostingnews.com/gate.h...me=Submit_News - Host News

http://www.webazar.com/ - Webazar.com

http://www.software-review-center.org/act/addnews.php - Software-review-center

http://searchwarp.com/ - Searchwarp

http://www.tmcnet.com/ - TMCnet

http://www.bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm - Biz Europe

http://www.symbcity.com/new/public - Symbcity

http://www.programmersheaven.com/ - Programmers Heaven

http://www.openpr.com/ - Open PR

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/ourwo...ish/index.html - Our World

http://www.eceurope.com/index.htm - ECEurope Buy Sell offers

http://www.press-release-writing.com/ - Press Release writing

http://www.seo-pr.com/ - SEO-PR

http://www.internetwriters.com/ - Internet Writers

http://www.gebbieinc.com/ - Gebbie Press

http://www.xpresspress.com/ - Xpress Press

http://www.imediafax.com/ - Imediafax

http://www.earthvision.net/market/addstory.cfm - EarthVision

http://www.webnewswire.com/ - WebNewsWire

http://www.opportunityupdate.com/articles/ - Opportunity Update

http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/ - Internet News Bureau

http://www.ereleases.com/ - eReleases

http://upload.it/shareware_soft_000005.htm - Upload.it

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/ - 24-7 Press Release

http://store.1choice4ystore.com/articles.html - YStore

http://www.ideasiteforbusiness.com/cpress1.htm - Click Press Direct

http://www.threadwatch.org/ - Threadwatch

http://www.eworldwire.com/ - EWorldWire

http://www.afly.com/ - aFly

http://articlecity.prwebdirect.com/ - Articlecity Press Release

http://www.powerhomebiz.com/BizNews/pressrelease.htm - Powerhomebiz

http://newslink.org/ - NewsLink.org

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ed...ewsstatsca.jsp - MediaINFO Links

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi - Pressbox

http://www.bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm - Biz Europe

http://www.pr-scotland.com/addpr.htm - PR Scotland

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/pressrelease.asp - Fashion and Garment News

http://www.e-syndicate.net/ - e-syndicate.net

http://www.our-hometown.com/ - Our Hometown

http://www.emailwire.com/ - Emailwire

http://www.africanewswire.net/ - Africa Newswires Service

http://www.express-press-release.com/ - Express press release

http://www.prbot.com/ - PRBot

http://highwire.stanford.edu/ - Highwire Press

http://www.newzalert.com/ - Newzalert

http://www.addpr.com/ - Add PR

http://www.click2newsites.com/press.asp - Click2newsites

http://www.profnet.org/press.html - Press Release Resources

http://mediapeak.com/ - Mediapeak

http://www.softwarewire.com/SubmitRelease.htm - Software Wire

http://news.baou.com/ - OfficalWire

A press release gives you numerous benefits, including high powered links to your sites, possible media exposure and reaching new customers.

When writing your press release you must cater to two totally separate audiences. The first would be the media, if they smell a sales pitch they won’t even consider contacting you. The second is your customer, if there is nothing to interest them, they won’t pay any attention to you at all.

To write the best press release, study a few of the ones that are already out there. Always be sure to put a link to your website in every press release.

List of 180 Social Bookmarking Sites in Page Rank Order

List of 180 Social Bookmarking Sites in Page Rank Order

http://del.icio.us/ - PR8

http://www.fark.com/ - PR8

http://www.furl.net/ - PR8

http://www.kuro5hin.org/ - PR8

http://www.technorati.com/ - PR8

http://www.bloghop.com/ - PR7

http://www.blogpulse.com/ - PR7

http://www.connectedy.com/ - PR7

http://www.digg.com/ - PR7

http://www.google.com/notebook - PR7

http://www.icerocket.com/ - PR7

http://kinja.com/ - PR7

http://www.librarything.com/ - PR7

http://www.newsvine.com/ - PR7

http://www.nextaris.com/ - PR7

http://www.shadows.com/ - PR7

http://www.stumbleupon.com/ - PR7

http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ - PR7

http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml - PR6

http://www.beanrocket.com/ - PR6

http://www.blinklist.com/ - PR6

http://www.blogmarks.net/ - PR6

http://buddymarks.com/ - PR6

http://www.citeulike.org/ - PR6

http://www.cluebacca.com/ - PR6

http://www.diigo.com/ - PR6

http://www.feedmarker.com/ - PR6

http://frassle.net/ - PR6

http://www.gibeo.net/ - PR6

http://www.hanzoweb.com/ - PR6

http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/ - PR6

http://www.jots.com/ - PR6

http://www.kaboodle.com/ - PR6

http://linkfilter.net/ - PR6

http://www.linkroll.com/ - PR6

http://listmixer.com/ - PR6

http://maple.nu/ - PR6

http://www.mecanbe.com/temp/default.aspx - PR6

http://myprogs.net/ - PR6

http://www.mystickies.com/ - PR6

http://www.netvouz.com/ - PR6

http://www.nowpublic.com/ - PR6

http://www.rollyo.com/ - PR6

http://scuttle.org/ - PR6

http://www.simpy.com/ - PR6

http://www.spurl.net/ - PR6

http://suckingfish.com/welcome.do - PR6

http://supr.c.ilio.us/ - PR6

http://www.tailrank.com/ - PR6

http://www.wists.com/ - PR6

http://www.wurldbook.com/info/ - PR6

http://www.yoono.com/ - PR6

http://www.30daytags.com/fresh - PR5

http://adoppt.com/ - PR5

http://www.ambedo.com/ - PR5

http://www.blogmemes.net/ - PR5

http://www.bookmark-manager.com/ - PR5

http://www.bookmarktracker.com/ - PR5

http://www.browsr.com/ - PR5

https://www.chipmark.com/ - PR5

http://www.connectedy.com/ - PR5

http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/ - PR5

http://www.fantacular.com/ - PR5

http://www.feedalley.com/ - PR5

http://www.filangy.com/index.jsp - PR5

http://www.gather.com/ - PR5

http://gnafi.com/ - PR5

http://www.gravee.com/ - PR5

http://www.igooi.com/ - PR5

http://www.jeteye.com/ - PR5

http://www.kmfavorites.com/ - PR5

http://www.lifelogger.com/ - PR5

http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Home - PR5

http://www.lookupthis.com/online/signin.asp - PR5

http://www.lookmarks.com/ - PR5

http://meneame.net/ - PR5

http://www.millionsofgames.com/ - PR5

http://motor.crispynews.com/ - PR5

http://www.mybookmarkmanager.com/ - PR5

http://www.myhq.com/ - PR5

http://www.mylinkvault.com/ - PR5

http://www.mypip.com/home/ - PR5

http://www.myvmarks.com/ - PR5

http://www.openbm.de/ - PR5

http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ - PR5

http://www.peoplefeeds.com/ - PR5

http://www.phigita.net/ - PR5

http://www.pligg.com/ - PR5

http://www.plugim.com- PR5

http://www.portachi.com/ - PR5

http://www.rrove.com/home - PR5

http://segnalo.alice.it/ - PR5

http://www.shoutwire.com/ - PR5

http://www.sitejot.com/ - PR5

http://www.squidoo.com/ - PR5

http://www.stylehive.com/ - PR5

http://www.tabmarks.com/ - PR5

http://unalog.com/ - PR5

http://uvouch.com/ - PR5

http://yummy.printfu.org/ - PR5

http://www.youtube.com/ - PR5

http://www.zurpy.com/ - PR5

http://aworldofhelp.com/home/index2.htm - PR4

http://www.allmyfavorites.net/ - PR4

http://articletag.com/index.php - PR4

http://www.blinkbits.com/ - PR4

http://www.bmaccess.net/ - PR4

http://www.bookkit.com/ - PR4

http://www.butterflyproject.nl/ - PR4

http://www.clipclip.org/ - PR4

http://www.clipmarks.com/ - PR4

http://www.esnips.com/signin/index.jsp - PR4

http://www.favmark.com/ - PR4

http://3form.com/ - PR4

http://www.givealink.org/ - PR4

http://www.guicookies.com/ - PR4

http://indiagram.com/index.php - PR4

http://www.linkarena.com/ - PR4

http://www.linkologia.pl/ - PR4

http://www.oyax.com/ - PR4

http://www.peoplefeeds.com/ - PR4

http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces - PR4

http://www.stanmx.com/sabrosus/ - PR4

http://www.stylefeeder.com/ - PR4

http://www.taghop.com/ - PR4

http://www.ticklr.net/ - PR4

http://www.urlex.info/ - PR4

http://my.xilinus.com/ - PR4

http://www.de.lirio.us/ - PR3

http://www.eigology.com/dogear/ - PR3

http://dohat.com/dohathome3.html - PR3

http://www.favoor.com/ - PR3

http://feedmelinks.com/portalc - PR3

http://www.flipskipper.com/ - PR3

http://www.i89.us/ - PR3

http://www.lilisto.com/ - PR3

https://ma.gnolia.com/ - PR3

http://www.meme-stream.com/ - PR3

http://www.onlywire.com/ - PR3

http://tagsy.com/ - PR3

http://6-clicks.com/ - PR2

http://www.bloglot.com/ - PR2

http://www.crispynews.com/global - PR2

http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/ - PR2

http://www.indiamarks.com/ - PR2

http://www.listible.com/ - PR2

http://www.sitetagger.com/ - PR2

http://www.smarking.com/ - PR2

http://www.30daytags.com/fresh - PR1

http://www.getboo.com/ - PR1

http://www.syncone.net/ - PR1

http://www.blabb.com/user/blabb.php - PR0

http://bookmarks.blauerbote.com/ - PR0

http://bluedot.us/friends/dots - PR0

http://www.collectfavorites.com/ - PR0

http://www.complore.com/ - PR0

http://www.eggkeg.com/ - PR0

http://www.fatredfish.com/ - PR0

http://www.forumsofindia.com/ - PR0

http://www.fungow.com/ - PR0

http://mybookmark.gokodo.com/ - PR0

http://www.goobtoob.com/ - PR0

http://linkatopia.com/ - PR0

http://www.linklog.nl/ - PR0

http://www.markaboo.com/ - PR0

http://www.minddeposit.com/ - PR0

http://www.pixelmo.com/ - PR0

http://popurls.com/ - PR0

http://recommendit.dehsoftware.com/ - PR0

http://www.reddit.com/ - PR0

http://www.rojo.com/ - PR0

http://say.something-everything.com/ - PR0

http://www.searchles.com/ - PR0

http://www.shoppersbase.com/ - PR0

http://socialbookmarking.org/ - PR0

http://www.taganiche.com/ - PR0

http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag - PR0

http://thumblicio.us/ - PR0

http://www.tutorialism.com/ - PR0

http://www.ticklr.net/ - PR0

http://www.wirefan.com/ - PR0

http://www.clipfire.com// - PR6

These sites do NOT utilize the No Follow tag:

Blinkbits.com

Blogmarks.net

Chipmark.com

Clipmarks.com

Connectedy.com

Digg.com

Dzone.com

Feedmarker.com

Furl.net

I89.us

Indiamarks.com

Jots.com

Linkagogo.com

Linkatopia.com

Ma.gnolia.com

Metafilter.com

Nachoo.com

Rawsugar.com

Reddit.com

Stumbleupon.com

Saysaid.com

Shadows.com

Shoutwire.com

Simpy.com

Sphere.com

Spurl.net

Techtagg.com

List of Social Bookmarking Tools:

Onlywire - Submits to 19 Top Sites with 1 Click

The Socializer - Helps to automate Submission to over 50 sites.

Bookmarking Demon - Get Social Bookmarking automation software and blog commenting software for one small investment!

Take a moment to listen to the Podcast below to utilize these sites to the fullest!

List of Video Hosting Sites, Tools, and Podcast

http://www.addictingclips.com

http://www.blinkx.tv

http://www.blip.tv

http://www.bofunk.com

http://www.bolt.com

http://www.break.com

http://www.brightcove.com

http://www.castpost.com

http://www.clipshack.com

http://www.dailymotion.com

http://www.dropshots.com

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/tags/video

http://eefoof.com/gallery/videos

http://www.expertvillage.com

http://www.eVideoshare.com

http://www.eyespot.com

http://www.fark.com/video

http://www.fliqz.com

http://www.funniestspace.com

http://www.funnyplace.org

http://www.gofish.com

http://www.grouper.com

http://www.guba.com/home_free

http://www.holylemon.com

http://www.ifilm.com

http://www.imageevent.com

http://www.JuiceCaster.com

http://www.jumpcut.com

http://www.killsometime.com

http://www.leechvideo.com

http://www.lulu.tv

http://www.metacafe.com

http://www.motionbox.com

http://www.myspace.com

http://www.myheavy.com/videos.php

http://www.openvlog.com

http://www.panjea.com

http://photobucket.com/videos/

http://www.pixparty.com

http://www.putfile.com

http://www.revver.com

http://www.sharkle.com

http://www.stickam.com

http://www.stupidvideos.com

http://www.theshoutout.com/

http://www.thevideosense.com/

http://www.tmz.com/videos

http://www.unoriginal.co.uk

http://www.vsocial.com

http://www.vmix.com

http://www.vimeo.com

http://www.vidilife.com

http://video.aol.com

http://video.google.com

http://video.yahoo.com

http://videoaddon.com

http://www.video-clips.co.uk

http://www.videoegg.com

http://www.videowebtown.com

http://www.viewdo.com

http://www.veoh.com

http://www.yikers.com/

http://www.yourkindatv.com

http://www.zaable.com

Video Marketing Tools:

Affiliate Video Brander: This tool allows you to have your affiliates brand your videos and boost their conversions. I personally tested it against a standard email and had an increase of 434% in my own conversions.

Camtasia: This is hands down the top video tool for an internet marketer. Perfect screen captures and powerful audio functions make this the best video software online. Download the 30 day trial and make it pay for its $299 price tag!

TubeMogul: Submits your videos to the top video directories all at once and for free!

Regards,

Sonika Soni

http://www.swaniexportsindia.com/

Search-based keyword tool: New keyword tool for advertisers

The Adwords Insider Blog has announced the launch of a new keyword tool for advertisers - the "search-based keyword tool".
Interestingly, it will give keyword suggestions based on spidering data (you supply a domain name - it matches keywords within title and on-page keywords of URL in that site). If you use it for sites within your Adwords account, it won't suggest keywords you're already using.

From an initial play around, it looks like it will be very useful for campaigns that potentially have lots if missed opportunities for good paid keywords - particularly for larger sites where there may be product pages and the like that are easily overlooked. Spreadsheet export is nice too.

Data returned for sites you don't have Adwords for seems pretty screwy, unfortunately ;)

The tool's located at http://www.google.com/sktool/
Regards,
Sonika Soni
http://www.swaniexportsindia.com/

Good News for (Alcohol) Product sale marketers in UAS

Google Allows Alcohol in the USA on Search. This is firsrt time when google allowed such type of ads on SERP. I have seen Ads for blackhat SEO also on google SERP.
May be google will allow alcohol Ads in India also
See compleate News at Inside AdWords: An update to the AdWords alcohol policy

Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website

Google Friend Connect is a much-awaited service from Google that lets you add social features to any website or blog. For instance, your blog readers can join your site (remember MyBlogLog) via their Google Account and then add comments, rate pictures or even interact with other members who are part of your blog.

If you like to see Friend Connect in action, go to Orli Yakuel’s blog and check the Friends widget in the right sidebar – that’s an OpenSocial Apps powered by Google Friend Connect. The Google blog has more details about how Friend Connect works while this press release touches upon some more possible uses of Friend Connect.

Benifits:

* Anyone can join your site with one click by using their existing Google, Yahoo and other accounts.
* Visitors can evangelize for your site by inviting their friends and publishing their activities to their social networks.
* Social gadgets will keep these visitors more deeply engaged with your site, and with each other

Regards,

Sonika Soni

http://www.swaniexportsindia.com/

Separate metrics for Google and search partners are now available

Adwords advertisers will (finally!) be able to see separate metrics for Google and the search partners.
One cool feature that isn't mentioned in the post is that there is now a drop-down menu which allows you to choose how you want to see the stats: all rolled up, search rolled up but content separate, or all separate. Very cool.
Search Engine Roundtable has a nice screen shot.

Even more exciting is this upcoming feature, from the blog post
"Additionally, separate Google and aggregate search partner statistics will soon be available in the Report Center."

Yes! While search partners generally perform well for most advertisers, we've been asking for a while for more transparency into what's working and what's not, so we can improve our campaign ROI. Hats off to Google for once again leading the pack in giving us some of the transparency we crave.

Regards,
Sonika Mishra
http://hr-horizons.blogspot.com/

Google Content Central: Grow your audience, reach more users

Grow your audience - reach more usersGoogle can help you reach out to the world by distributing your content on Google Web Search, Maps, Product Search, iGoogle, and more

Google introduces a new section named as ‘Content Central’ a one point shop for webmasters to submit their websites to various Google services. They also have launched an official blog http://contentcentral.blogspot.com/ from the Content Partnerships team - includes people from the YouTube, Book Search, and the Local/Core Content Partnerships teams;.
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From the Content Central page you can go with the following options:
Submit a URL for inclusion in Google’s index. Increase your visibility by submitting and optimizing your website for Google search, and distributing your content across Google and the web at large
Submit a Sitemap through Webmaster Tools.
List your business in Local Business Center. Drive traffic by sharing information about your business - whether it's customers through your front door or users to your website.

Also YouTube and Product Search are available at present. Grow your audience by promoting and distributing your media to millions of Google users around the world.
You can also submit different types of content such as:
Website
Business Info
Events
Gadgets
Real Estate Listings
Blogs
RSS and much more…
Regards,

Sonika Mishra