It's only days since google expanded the wave invitation process and seriously hurt the coolness and I'm so in factor of wave invites.
Now comes the next step: google acquired AppJet, a company whose main product is EtherPad - something similar to a mature fusion between google docs and wave.

the #wave hashtag has just been replaced as one of the most popular search tags on twitter by #chrome OS#.
But it's good, that something like wave creates a lot of discussion on the way we communicate and make use technology.

A tiny bit of data, when regarded solely, can seem totally unimportant. In most webserver logfiles the referer-bit of log information is not kept. It seems a good strategy to avoid these extra 40 byte of data for every logfile line, every click and every pageview - especially when that data is regarded useless and without any information.
But remember the data warehouse effect: tiny bits of data quickly add up to a big picture. The more the better.

Russel Jones, executive editor at devx wrote a piece about the chances of automation in a downturn economy.
Take a look at the dramatic explosion of a workers productivity. An increase of nearly 15 fold in the last 100 years in comparison with the numbers of 1900 (red line), while steadily decreasing the hours per week worked (blue line). Productivity is expressed as GDP per working hour.

With a growing complexity in business processes comes migration. Constant migration, synchronisation and at one point the need to have a database of databases.