WAVE NEW WORLD

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Google’s latest product combines communication, collaboration and media-sharing into one very useful application.

This may be the new e-mail. For now, imagine an e-mail connected to a social network like FACEBOOK and

add exotic extensions. It can connect to twitter. You must answer Wave or put an answering machine on it. There is

storage for information coming in.

Google wave looks like a Facebook page, but a Window panel on the side, further there is room to store messages, and to collaborate with another. There is a chat line for your immediate use. Messages can easily be attached to pictures or

videos.

INTERACTIVE TELEVISION

2009/ 10-19/THE ECONOMIST

This interactive television advertising is built around a television remote that has blackberry qualities. Unlike the QVC

Channel, where you can call in an order or on the internet order with a strategic number, this goes beyond this.

As an advertisement is on television, if you like something, you are promised a prize and order from the remote. Most

major corporations have invested in it. It is more concrete and can help figure how much of something that you want.

So far in pilot project rough 3.5 % of the viewers checked in on the television.