Google has been actively collecting feedback on Google Wave with an ongoing survey, which was distributed via email, the help center, and Twitter. Today they've published the initial findings for public dissection. So far results indicate that users love the concept of Wave, appreciate the collobartion features, and like the extensions, gadgets, and robots. On the flip side, however, the most perplexing part of the Wave experience is that users' friends and contacts don't have access to Wave... Read Full Story

Extensions are coming to Google Chrome in the near future. The current developer build supports them, and there's a lot to be excited about in the implementation -, you don't have to restart the browser to use an extension you've just installed like you do in Firefox, for example. On the other hand, the group of brave folks using the developer build don't have nearly as many extensions to pick from yet. Firefox has the best lineup in the browser biz, so let's play a wishing game; here are som... Read Full Story

The story of Michaele and Tareq Salahi should serve as a lesson in the wrong way to seek fame. The couple, which is being considered by Bravo for the DC version of The Real Housewives series, somehow managed to make it past a security checkpoint to attend the White House state dinner on Tuesday evening, where they proceeded to party with the political elite. It also just so happens that Michaele Salahi has a public Facebook Page, which she used to post a smattering of photos from the evening,... Read Full Story

Black Friday is upon us and retailers online and off have brought out the big guns for the busiest shopping day of the year. While most of the doorbusters are long gone, you can still catch some terrific bargains online. We scoured ads, online deal sites, and our Twitter accounts (hey, if we have to work today, we're going to try to shop at the same time) and found five can't miss deals. Amazon.com $150 off MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops — Edited to add: Amazon.com has sold out of the regul... Read Full Story

In time for Black Friday, Microsoft and eBay are partnering to offer eBay Daily Deals to Internet Explorer 8 users directly from the browser. Via a Internet Explorer Web Slice, Microsoft will offer users the best "Daily Deals" from eBay from within the browser. The deals will be found within Favorites Bar on IE8, and will be updated daily within the browser. In conjunction with the new feature, eBay will also launch a "12 Days of Deals" promotion that will feature a deal of the day within t... Read Full Story

Adconion Media Group announced this morning that it has acquired certain key assets from Joost, the ill-fated online video service started by the infamous Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but it's likely a firesale that isn't bringing any returns to Joost's investors. Last June, Joost announced a change in its business strategy to focus on providing white-label video platforms, and Adconion says it plans to pursue this... Read Full Story

Woot, the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot. The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/geek focused, there are special subsites for shirts, wine, and a handful of others). Unlike these sites, Deals.Woot is run by its users — it's essentially a Digg for bargain... Read Full Story

With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate. And one has to hand it to them: although it doesn't have a huge user base in the desktop web browser space, Opera is always one step ahead of the rest, for better or for worse. With version 10.10, Opera has taken its biggest step into the unknown so far, marrying the web browser with the web server. It definitely makes it unique in the world of web browsers, but there's al... Read Full Story

BNO News, the news wire service famous for publishing breaking news stories through its @BreakingNews Twitter feed, just announced that it plans to launch a new news wire service early next year. In order to focus on this project, the BNO team will hand over the management of the @BreakingNews feed to MSNBC.com. According to BNO News, MSNBC will provide 24/7 breaking news headlines via BNO's Twitter feed, which will include updates from the new BNO wire service and other news organizations. ... Read Full Story

A couple of weeks ago, the first iPhone worm appeared, spreading on jailbroken devices with the SSH application installed (vulnerability being the fact that many users haven't changed the default root password). As far as worms go, this one was quite benign, merely "rickrolling" users; i.e., changing the background image on the device to an image of Rick Astley. Now, according to early reports of strange activity by Dutch ISP XS4ALL, and later confirmed by Sophos, there's a new worm in the wi... Read Full Story