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Google Wave is an online software application product of Google, described as a personal communication and collaboration tool. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages, and numerous other extensions. It is still in preview mode, thus not yet officially released.

When Google Wave was introduced it created a wave of enthusiasm all around the world, including from knowledge managers. At the moment, some people still underline its unique opportunities for collaboration, others were dissapointed by the buggy experience of the new platform, they could not see the practical use, or felt all alone because their colleagues weren't on it.

During this chat we will look at experiences people had with Google Wave, explore opportunities and threats, and share tips and tricks.

17:00 UTC = 12pm ET same day

Predictions are hard for any one person to make. The essence of stock markets is that many different decision makers all making bets on their own predictions leads to a consensus of where corporate performance is heading.

The same sort of crowd decision making can be used for anything. If you are interested in this topic, but not familiar with Prediction Markets, there is a lot of interesting research and interesting tools available.

This chat will be a little less formal than a prediction market. We will see what our small sample size of people thinks is going to happen in 2010 and we will hash it out to see if we can get some interesting learning out of it.