We have some Google Wave invite links to give away:

As a PPC marketer targetting multiple geographic regions, testing your ads can be difficult since they won't show up if you're not in the designated country, region or city. For example, you might be working from the United States, but you also want to target consumers in the United Kingdom. Simply running your query on google.co.uk won't do the trick since Google doesn't rely only on the TLD, but also on your IP address to determine your location.

Luckily, there is a work-around for this problem. You can easily append parameters to the URL;

Google sometimes hides little nuggets in their web applications, which can often be revealed using the infamous Konami code. The Konami Code, is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, although the code later also appears in many non-Konami games:

We stumbled across an interesting solution today for people who need to preload content on a webpage. You wouldn't want to do this with just any page of course, because you don't want people to wait for all images to be loaded before showing them other content without a good reason. However, if you have a web application which isn't useable until all elements are loaded, QueryLoader might be what you've been looking for. Some of its features include;

Yesterday, Google launched "Google Wave" its highly anticipated social platform. The first of about 100.000 lucky users received their invitations today and had the opportunity to find out if Wave lives up to the hype.

Google seems to be experimenting with Sitelinks for Google Adwords in Germany and the United States. Some advertisers are allowed to provide multiple landing pages. Here's a screenshot to show you an example:

Google has issued the following statement:

Many major websites these days use country flags to indicate which other languages the content is available in. For example, the English language is usually represented by the Union Jack or the Dutch language by a flag of the Netherlands. The problem with this approach is that location and language are not really that related. Many countries have multiple languages, such as Belgium which has 3 national languages (Dutch, French and German) or India which has no less than 22.

Creately has just reveiled its online collaborative diagramming and design tool to the public. This RIA allows anyone to create flowcharts, wireframes, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc. These can be shared with other users for easy collaboration, in similar fashion to Google Docs.

We were surprised by the familiarity of the tool; if you've ever worked with Visio before then you won't have any issues getting used to Creately. For example, contextual toolbars provide quick access to the most commonly used features for any selected object.