Justin, DK, Justin

Stories this week:
[1:04] Google Stops Google Wave Development
Let’s Celebrate Google’s Biggest Failures
[12:03] Google Multiple Sign-in, Now Available
[15:23] RIM announces BlackBerry Torch and BlackBerry OS 6
[24:07] The 7 people who can restart the Internet

As promised a few months ago, we finally got a chance to spend more time with and tell you more about the Google Nexus One, Google’s own Android 2.1 device.

Link: Google Nexus One

Daniel, DK, Justin & Justin

Stories this week:

[1:30] Twitter adds local trends to Web site
[4:35] Google ends support for IE6
[9:30] Apple iPad

- Daniel, Jerrick, NTT

Topics This Week:

[06:00] Jerrick: Star Trek MMO
[20:15] Daniel: Nexus One
[33:20] NTT: Solid State Drives

[46:20] Side Track: Command & Conquer 4

Theme Music by Ivan Chew – MyRightBrain.wordpress.com

We found a friend who ordered the Google Nexus One and who was willing to let us do the unboxing on his behalf! So we went out and met him at the KFC over at the Lot1 shopping mall last night and unboxed it for him! Because of that, we didn’t have the usual proper equipment or the best sound, but I’m sure you’re not going to care, right?

By the way, this was also the first time we streamed the unboxing live over Ustream! We had about 15 people in the chat room asking us questions about the Nexus One, which we did our best to answer and show off on the spot. The whole event lasted for about an hour and half and was streamed entirely off an iPhone 3GS (and subsequently an HTC Hero)! We had a lot of fun and we’ll try to do that more often in the future! So do follow our twitter feed to be informed for things like that!

Link: Buy the Google Chrome

Last week, Google Singapore announced a collaboration with LTA that brought traffic information as well as transit information into Google Maps in Singapore. DK and myself were there, and we recorded their demo on video for all of you to see.

Here’s a tip: One of the best ways to make the most out of technology is to watch the demonstrations of a newly launch product, as most of the time there are new and powerful features that you wouldn’t be aware of unless someone told you about them, and product demos usually help you be aware of these powerful features in that product. So I do encourage you to watch product demos for products that matter to you.

Read on for the second part of the Demo where they show off some cool extra features on Google Maps Singapore.

DK, Farinelli, Justin & Justin

Stories this week

[1:40] StarHub to offer iPhone
[7:55] Google investing in a mobile future with AdMob
[10:00] Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
[15:00] Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++
[23:10] ZiiLABS ZMS-08 offers Cortex A8-powered Full HD and Flash acceleration for netbooks
[30:20] Xbox 360 Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm hit Nov. 17
[36:10] Tech65 website was hacked on monday night
[38:00] HackerSpace.SG

[43:20] Byte of the week: Prezi

By the way, I think we have found our new home at 8 Shenton Way Starbucks. (Formerly Temasek Tower) Do pop by every Saturday morning to join us at our recording. For more updates on where and when we are doing our 65bits recording, follow our twitter account.

Daniel, DK, Farinelli, Justin & Justin, Nicole

Stories this week

[1:50] Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0
[4:10] Google’s New Mobile App Cuts GPS Nav Companies At The Knees
[10:40] Motorola DROID review
[16:05] How Motorola Stopped Sucking
[16:25] Bad news! Singapore will not be getting Palm Pre or WebOS device anytime soon
[22:40] Check It Twice: Twitter Lists Now Open To All Users
[26:20] Twitter, Outlines, Lists, Directories, Y!ou
[31:20] HTC is ‘Quietly Brilliant’
[34:10] Witty Taglines and Wicked Tattoos by HTC

By the way, we are just kidding about the title.

Daniel, DK, Justin, Nicole

Stories this week

[1:15] Windows 7 has landed in Singapore
[8:30] Easing XP Netbook owners’ path to Windows 7
[10:52] Amazon: Windows 7 is ‘the biggest pre-order product of all time
[13:30] Linus Torvalds Gives Windows 7 a Thumbs Up
[14:22] Apple Targets Windows 7 With Three New ‘Get a Mac’ Ads
[17:00] Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
[19:18] Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too
[20:43] Barnes & Noble Nook dual-screen reader officially announced
[25:05] Apple redesigns iMac and 13-inch MacBook, revamps Mac Mini
[36:35] Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement
[39:05] Dell Adamo XPS Can Only Be Opened By Rubbing It

[45:56] Bonus: Leave a comment and stand a chance to win one of the three T-Shirt (Thanks to Kevin)

Google Wave is the hot thing in the geek world today. It’s the second Gmail, both literally and figuratively. Google is touting Wave as “email if it was invented today”. But also like Gmail when it first came out, it’s an invite only service. Invites are scarce and everyone’s out there hunting for one to get access to it. As a result, it’s not surprising that some people have decided to take advantage of this situation to start harvesting for email addresses to sell to others. It’s come to my attention that a lot of people, even the geeks who have been advising their non-geek friends against phishing attacks, have been falling for such scams. So I’ve decided to write this post to remind everyone to be alert.

So how do you make sure you don’t end up giving away your email address to someone who wants to use it for nefarious reasons? Well, here are some questions you should ask before you give that precious email address away, along with a possibly legit site, and the status of Google Wave invites now:

1. Why would Google give this random website so many invites? And why does this website have so many ads??

This is actually the simplest question to ask. If you think about it, Google is a pretty big website. If they were to give rare invites away, wouldn’t they want to choose someone that is established? If Mashable.com or Techcrunch were to give away Google Wave invites, I could totally understand and trust. But why would Google give some random website that popped out of no where so many invites? Especially if that website did nothing but “provide” Google Wave invites. Sure, there may be reasons why Google would do that, but are you willing to take the risk?

2. Why does this website need me to tweet this before they will give me an invite?

Because they probably want more people to put their email address inside that text field?

These websites are also taking advantage of the fact that “it might take a while before we can send you an invite”. You may never know that your email address is now in the hands of one more spam bot.

Example of a website that’s very likely to be legit

GoogleWaveInvite.com was one such website. I say “was” because it’s no longer working (I’ll explain this later). But let’s look at what they claim. They do not claim to have invites, but they say that they’re building a website that allows people who DO have invites to give them to people that DON’T have invites. That makes a lot more sense. They’ve built something like a marketplace, a community of sorts, to let geeks help each other out and give invites. Also, they don’t ask you to “invite 5 more friends” or to “tweet this to more people” before you’re allowed to be part of it. Sure, they suggest you do that so that the community grows, allowing a better chance of people with invites to give them out to those who want them, but they don’t force you to. Why would that be necessary anyway?

Of course, there’s still a chance that this website could be one very elaborate plan to steal your email address, but if they’ve put in so much effort, they deserve to steal my email address. In any case, I’d trust them more than those other websites that have been popping out lately. Plus at least their explanation makes sense.

The bad news about Google Wave Invites dot com

As I mentioned earlier, they’re no longer around because they discovered that Google doesn’t give “secondary” Google wave users invites to give away. This makes me trust them even more should they come back. If they were really a scam site they’d have continued sourcing for users even though there weren’t any invites to give away.

In other words: the more you should be careful

Speaking of that, this means that there’s even lesser chance that someone would be able to give away invites today. My advice? Go to the official Google Wave website, sign up for the invite, and wait patiently. It’s the safest way to secure yourself a Google Wave account.

Remember: It’s better wait longer for an official Wave invite straight from Google than to give your email address to spammers. If you’re not sure, don’t give your email address to anyone.