We are trying out the developer preview of Google Wave . Please keep in mind that this is a very early version of Google Wave with known bugs... this is not a final product yet. Each Wave document consists of several sub-parts, called "Blips". Tony and I can chat along inside a Wave, and we're seeing what the other types letter by letter. (PS: Oops, I miscorrected Tony's sentence at around 3:30!) In Google Wave,

When Iran had their most recent popular revolution in 1979, people around the world had no 24 hour news source to convey what was happening. CNN would be launched the following year by Ted Turner so coverage was limited to shows like ABC's Nightline (which was created in response to the hostage crisis which grew out of the uprising) and the regularly scheduled network new programs, as well as the daily newspapers like The New York Times and newsweeklies like Time magazine.

by Vera H-C Chan Terracotta warriors will rise one more time... again. After 20 years, archaeologists are back to Pit A in Xi'an, China, the 2,000-year-old graveyard for 6,000 clay soldiers (plus a few hundred chariots and horses). At least that's the estimated troop number for the lifesized figures. Only 1,000 warriors had been uncovered before the dig was stopped in the 1980s, because 20th-century oxygen was ruining the soldiers.

by Vera H-C Chan Six Flags ...bankrupt? What about Sasquatch? Bizarro? The Terminator Salvation ride? Save your fear for that 221-foot 'coaster drop. Six Flags Theme Park filed for Chapter 11 on June 13, but all attractions remain open and no one's getting fired â?"not any staff, not the management team, not Mr. Six (A.K.A. the Dancing Old Guy who's now the Dancing Twittering Old Guy).

Robin Goad, our UK Research Director wrote about the surge in traffic to Facebook in the UK in response to the premier this weekend of personalized or vanity usernames. Here's a daily chart of Facebook's U.S. marketshare: While we also witnessed an uptick in marketshare this weekend, up 2.8% from Friday June 12th to Saturday June 13th (personalized usernames were made available at 12:01am on Saturday), the more interesting chart trend in the U.S.

Last week, YouTube Senator of the Week Chris Dodd (D-CT) asked you for your input on the health care legislation that Congress is currently drafting. You responded enthusiastically on the Senate Hub , contributing over 500 unique ideas on health care reform and casting over 26,000 votes on these ideas, making this the most successful round of Senator of the Week to date. Today,

In its continuing effort to make searching from mobile Web gadgets easier via voice instead of typing, Google today said it added voice search for Google Maps on Google Android-powered phones. Instead of typing, users can search Google Maps for Android by speaking their destination queries , including home addresses, businesses and other locations. Google's voice recognition engine, which rolled out to iPhone users first last fall and finally to Android users in February ,

by Mike Krumboltz What it means to be a man depends (a lot) on who you ask. To some, it means being a good husband and father. To others, it might have something to do with the ability to drink copious amounts of mind-numbing liquids and still stand (The Buzz disagrees with this theory). And to two guys from Indiana , being a man isn't just one or two traits - its an attitude... an attitude that is best shown off on National Man Day .

by Vera H-C Chan Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. 1. Indoor Digital TV Antenna (Searches increased 1,230%). The June 12 transition finally pushed procrastinators to research the best ways to get a signal. Lookups also popped for "hd antenna," "smart antennas," and "antennaweb.org". 2. Kobe Bryant Wife (+542%). Kobe Bryant proved he could perform without Shaq , but the little woman surely helped the Laker in his NBA championship quest . 3.

I want to take this opportunity to comment on IBM's big cloud push, which the company unfurled in an exclusive today to the New York Times' Steve Lohr . GigaOm's Om Malik summarizes the offerings as consisting of: a Smart Business Test Cloud - A private cloud behind the client's firewall; a Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud; and IBM CloudBurst, a comprehensive, pre-integrated set of hardware, storage, virtualization and networking. In short,