Google’s Lars Rasmussen announced yesterday at Google I/O developer conference that Google Wave is now open to everyone, it no longer requires an invitation. If you have a Google account, simply visit wave.google.com to wave.

“Anyone on a wave can edit or reply to any section, keeping discussion in context with relevant content. Everyone’s typing shows up instantly, and Google Wave lets new participants get up to speed quickly with organized discussions and playback to see how a wave evolved.”

Google Wave is also available in Google Apps, businesses, and organizations now have an extra communication tool.

via [Google Operating System]

If you’ve gotten yourself entangled in Facebooks privacy traps and seriously want to know those privacy settings have to be disabled but are currently enabled on your Facebook account, then use this handy bookmarklet from ReclaimPrivacy.org

Facebook Privacy Scanners does six different checks, as shown in the screenshot above.

• If the Facebook user has opted-out of the Instant Personalization feature.
• If all of your personal information is restricted to your friends or closer.
• If all your contact information is restricted to your friends or closer.
• If all of your friends, tags, connection information is restricted to your friends or closer.
• If your Facebook friends are protected from accidentally sharing your personal information.
• if you have blocked all known applications that could leak your personal information.

ReclaimPrivacy Bookmarklet certainly does a good rating of your Facebook exposure levels but more is needed to get a really locked down Facebook account. If your Facebook friends are not privacy aware like you a lot of your personal information will still be exposed to strangers.

ReclaimPrivacy Bookmarklet Rates Your Facebook Exposure Levels

Unbelievable but true, Tim Anderson’s ITWriting after a conversation with Jeff Teper (Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the Office Business Platform) reports on his blog that Linux fanbois that want to run Microsoft Office’s Web Apps will need a Microsoft Office license even though the MS Office desktop suite doesn’t run on Linux desktops.

Microsoft confirmed with The Register that “businesses using Office Web Apps will need a full license for each and every user, whether they’re on Windows or Linux. Licensing will be extended to Linux users under Microsoft’s standard volume program” — this is Microsoft’s default licensing, but Microsoft’s man Taper added that “our volume licensing is tailored to each customer, we will do specific things for each customer’s need. But the blanket statement is that its available for volume license customers per user.”

Gmail has launched a new feature that permits you to drag messages from your computer directly into a Gmail message. Drag, resize it if you want and send the image, so simple a process, no more dialogs to select images as an attachment. This features works only on the Google Chrome web browser, it will soon be extended to other web browsers.
via [Gmail Blog]

To open your synced tabs remotely, launch your browser, log into your account at My Xmarks.com. On the iPhone, you’ll see something like this:

If you’re working on a desktop, after log-in go to “My Bookmarks” -> Tools menu, there you’ll find “Open Remote Tabs”.

To use this feature, first enable Xmarks Tab Sync in the Xmarks Add-on.

via [Xmarks Blog]

The Canonical Launchpad team is happy to announce that Launchpad web application and website has been completely open sourced. All components of Launchpad including codehosting and soyuz, now have open codes. Launchpad that counts over 13,000 active projects was developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. It is released under the GNU Affero General Public license, version 3. For more information on how to be part of it move the Launchpad Blog.

BitLet is a web-based BitTorrent client that makes BitTorrent available to the occasional user, and to those who can’t install a regular BitTorrent client like µTorrent or Transmission on their computers. No configuration is needed to use BitLet, just drop-in the URL of the torrent file and you’ll get a pop-up window that shows the download speed, download bar, number of seeders, and a download status led that signals potential problems. (see screenshot above). Anyway if you default settings are not OK for you, then go to BitLet Settings where you can modify BitLet’s incoming connection port and maximum upload rate.

BitLet’s code generator offers to publishers, blog owners, an easy way to offer BitLet links (BitTorrent files) to their readers from within their web pages like Miro Internet Tv does.

The BitLet 4 Chrome extension for Google Chrome makes downloading BitTorrent files easy with the Chrome browser. Once installed, Chrome detects all the links to torrent files within the pages you’re browsing and it will make those links open BitLet’s download pop-up, allowing you to start downloading in a click.

BitLet also offers torrent powered video streaming. Of course no installation is involved. Your playback experience has a lot to do with your participation. Its “new” video player leverages the HTML 5 video tag supported by modern web browsers like Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+ and Google Chrome. Sample videos are available for you to try out. Instruction are also provided for those who want to distribute their videos through the service.
BitLet uses the Sun Java platform, it runs on any browser that supports the Java Plug-in and alternatives like the icedtea6-plugin based on OpenJDK.