Yesterday Google Wave made headlines once again as Big G began to send out the 100,000 preview invitations they promised. The real time communication and collaboration tool’s preview release will reportedly be hosted on the platform’s own website rather than in the separate "sandbox" developers have been using since the platform’s release to developers in May. 

"In addition to the developers already using Wave, we will invite groups of users from the hundreds of thousands who offered to help report bugs when they signed up," said Google Wave Project Manager, Dan Peterson.

Will Google Wave be the next step in communication as so many like to imagine it will? Or the viable alternative to traditional e-mail that Google themselves planned for it to be? Well, we’re about to find out. If you didn’t help report bugs and are feeling lousy about it, don’t worry. Google wave is expected to be officially released for public use early next year. Alternatively, you could comb the net for someone who was invited, as each of the 100,000 chosen also received 5 invited of their own. 

In any case, keep up with the movement here. 

Confirming the recent Forrester Report that showed a widespread lack of management of electronic records, AIIM (news, site) has just published a similar report that shows 26% of organizations admitting that they have no electronic records management policy.

The report also shows that nearly half of companies surveyed (44%) have no procedures for freezing electronic records in the event of litigation or compliance issues.

KMWorld (news, site) has dropped its list of Trend Setting companies for 2009 and there are more than a few familar faces making the list.

There’s always hype around the web and related technologies. If it’s not Web 2.0 then it’s Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or any number of new protocols, trends and standards that have someone convinced that a massive paradigm change is just around the corner.

As you might fear, there’s a new kid on the block: the Pushbutton Web. How is this any different from the point and click web we already know so well? Read on.

Looking for a job? Want to keep a job? Then improve your social media persona. As it turns out, no matter how professional you may come across on your LinkedIn page, employers are getting the real dirt on you by checking out your profile on Facebook.

According to research by Harris Interactive, that was commissioned by CareerBuilder.com and surveyed 2,667 HR professionals, found that 45% of them use social networking sites to research job candidates, with an additional 11% planning to implement social media screening in the very near future.

Of those who conduct online searches/background checks of job candidates, 29% use Facebook, 26% use LinkedIn and 21% use MySpace. One in 10 (11%) search blogs, while 7% follow candidates on Twitter.

Metalogix (news, site) has been in the news a lot lately. From offering a simple tool for restoring SharePoint item level content to a offering a free content archiving solution, they provide solutions to ease the SharePoint administrators life.

Now, they offer a new solution called the Universal SharePoint Manager v2007, designed to make day to day management of your SharePoint environment a little less stressful.

As many a blog entry will reiterate, as of late, there’s been a good amount of buzz around the launch of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.

Moreover, there’s been a decent amount of speculation on what the growing popularity of Bing — along with their recent agreement with Yahoo — will mean in regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices.  As with any buzz in the online world, many marketing blogs, including Forrester, began to postulate what effect Bing will have on SEO, even before it officially launched.