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I’m certainly jealous. Google first showed off its new integrated communications platform, Google Wave, back at Google I/O in May. When I first heard the stories, I was all ready to roll my eyes and berate the new technology. IM and email and pictures and social networking-type stuff in the same place? Get real.
And then I watched the video. I don’t doubt that it would be overwhelming to some. But the more you look at Google Wave, the cooler it looks. And now 100,000 testers are going to get to look pretty closely at the platform, starting tomorrow.
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Unless you are a college football fan (hang in there social media geeks, we’ll get to your stuff soon enough 
) you probably wouldn’t even have a clue what this post is about. Honestly, unless you are a Texas Tech student or fan or resident of Lubbock, TX you may not know what a Red Raider is. One thing for certain though that more folks in the social media world will know about them because their coach, Mike Lynch, has banned Twitter usage from his team completely.
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There’s no doubt that Google’s feeling the heat from Twitter. Just about everyone wants to know what Google has planned to address Twitter’s rise in dominance for "real time" search results. 
So it was all for nothing.
If you are going to school it is probably hard to imagine a better resume builder than an internship at Google. I suspect that those folks will have a bit of an advantage in an interview situation over the kid who tries to spin his gig waiting tables at the beach for the summer by saying he “managed workflow and expedited product delivery in a fast paced, food related industry.” So what were these busy, industrious over-achievers up to for the summer? Trying to make school easier, of course, through improvements in Google Docs.
