Google Wave is a pioneering real-time joint tool that has the potential to be a perfect method for members of a group to work together. Yet, it’s not lucid how useful it will be in the real world. It’s the sort of tool that you prefer to use, but one that you might not be able to figure out easily, how to fit into your work life.

In fact,Google Wave seems to be one of those tools that’s extremely difficult to explain to those who haven’t started using it. One way to think of it is as a collection of threaded e-mail conversations and instantaneous messaging. Rich content, together with Google maps, interactive polling, videos and much more, can be embedded in conversations (known as waves). Additionally, the rich content is live and interactive. As an example,if you embed a Google map, all members in the conversation can utilize it as if they were on the Google Maps site.All the above features makes for a kind of profound collaboration that’s impossible with more conventional means of Internet communication. Theoretically, Google Wave can help groups distribute information, take decisions and actions faster.In practice,however, it’s difficult to predict the future of Google Wave, as most people still prefer to use the traditional e-mail.

Presently,Google Wave is still in a fairly strongly controlled, invitation-only beta. Considering that it’s free, however, when it becomes public, or if you’re fortunate enough to obtain an invite, it’s definitely worth to test it out, just for the “coolness” factor.For further details, check wave.google.com

Umibozu.net,the meta search engine seems to be the need of the hour for frequent net users who need to compare the results of Google,Yahoo and Bing(previously MSN).

Will this search engine umibuzo,with the caption “Change the world” on their page, bring about a major change?

For the moment,this caption might be best to describe them, from the following features

1.The results of the search engine are obtained by simultaneously crawling Google ,Yahoo and Bing.Also there are 3 options to display the results,’Matrix’ ,’User’ and ‘Top’.We searched for the word seo and obtained the following results:

Matrix format:

User format:

Top format:

2. The Umibuzo.net is not only a search engine but also can be used as a Bookmarking site. It offers a double advantage by by offering bookmarking features and search engine results. Bookmarking feature can be utilized by creating an account in this site.

3.Additionally once you type a keyword,along with the results of the search engine ,the link “Donate to UNICEF now!” is displayed,enabling users to make contributions to .Well,looks like they are trying to bring about a change on charitable grounds too.

4.Also the recent keywords searched are displayed on the home page of this site.

5.Additionally there are options to add your websites and to access your settings by signing into this site.

For those who like us are amused by the name Umibozu,here is a history behind the name.Umibozu in Japanese means sea bonze(bonze refers to the Chinese or Japanese Buddhist monk). It might have aquired the name bonze,as Umibozus like the Buddhist monks are said to have large ,round heads in resemblance to the shaven heads of Buddhist monks.In Japanese folklore, umibozus are believed to live in the oceans and if anyone in a ship takes the bold step to speak to it, it would capsize the ship.