Thanks to everyone who requested a Wave invitation. Invitations have been submitted for everyone who requested one as of the time of this writing. As mentioned previously, you now need to wait for Google to act on the invitations. Keep an eye on your inbox and your spam box, and hopefully Google will send them out within the next couple of days. If you get yours, hop on over to the 40Tech Public Wave, and try out Wave.
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12/3/09 update: We’ve hit the 48 hour mark. We’ll get a post up tomorrow, but everyone from Ashish through Randall will be getting an invite. Thanks for posting!
We previously wrote about how to organize the Google Wave sidebar with tags, and we have at least a couple of additional Wave-related posts coming soon. These posts probably don’t interest you, though, if you’re not using Wave. Wave invitations were once very hard to get, but have become more common now. We’d like to do our part by offering 20 invitations. Read on for how to get one, so that you can get in on the fun.
With the holidays just around the corner, the time has come to start scrambling for gift ideas. If you have a tech geek on your shopping list, you actually have it easier than most shoppers, for there are many gifts out there that will make a tech geek’s eyes light up. To help you find something at different price points, here are 11 gift ideas, ranging in price from under $3 to just under $400 at the time of this writing. How about we make this a collaborative post? I’m always searching for gift ideas, so when you’re done checking out the list, give us your gift suggestions in the comments. That way, we can all help one another during this holiday season.
As we approach the six month anniversary of 40Tech’s launch, we are taking a look behind the curtain here at the site. In this post and a future post, we will take a look at the basics of the site, the inspiration behind the site launch, and other questions that arise when starting a blog. If you’re considering blogging, it might give you some helpful insights into what it is like to get a blog up off the ground. If you have your own blog, and are like me, then you enjoy learning about other blogs. In future posts, we also will take a look at traffic growth and site stastics, and the motivations and non-technical decisions associated with starting the site. But first let’s look at the nuts and bolts of the site.
We’d like your input concerning credibility and integrity in product reviews that appear on blogs. Specifically, we’re interested in what factors you, our readers, think influence the credibility of a product review. Your input will factor into some decisions we make here at 40Tech.
By way of background, we’ve been contacted twice here at 40Tech by two different companies, with requests to run articles about software products. In both situations, the articles were written by the software developers themselves. We didn’t run either article, for obvious reasons. Situations won’t always be so clear cut, though. When, if ever, is it OK for a blogger to write an article, if solicited to write it by an outside party? Read more