Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google Wave, a collaboration tool that combines email, instant messaging and rich content such as video, interactive polling, and maps, has been released to the general public. The availability of the online tool, which Google described as "a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration," was announced during Google's I/O conference [...]

New York City (ip-192.com): AOL has a new friend – Facebook. As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL announced that starting today users of its AIM instant-messaging service can chat with friends on Facebook. An upgraded version of AIM connects with the instant-messaging function on Facebook's Web site. [...]

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google plans to add status-updates similar to Twitter to its Gmail, according to a Wall Street Journal report, citing "people familiar with the matter." The new feature could go live as early as this week and comes at a time of hyper-competitive activity among social networking, media and search sites as they [...]