ogle wave
Google Wave is a new revolutionary in communication software introduced today at Google I/O. Google Wave let you chat and edit your docs like photos, video, maps and more in real time.
What is Google Wave? Think of an open-source version of Gmail constructed via instant messaging. To start a wave, two users start what is essentially an instant-message session, which can be archived as a conversation. Other users can then be invited to join each wave or conversation in Google Wave, and there’s even a “playback” feature to track the process of the conversation. Google also said it intends Wave to be a platform as well as a protocol, with the appropriate tools and extensions for each.
In fact, it might not even be accurate to call it a reinvention of e-mail. Google executives tied the instant-message/e-mail model to real-time document collaboration, even search, and extended it to the Web and to blogs thats Google Wave
Images can be shared easily in Google Wave. What’s amazing, however, is that those images or embeddable objects can also be Wave gadgets: for example, in a demo, a Google Map of Bora Bora was dropped into a wave. However, Rasmussen(the creator of Google Wave) was able to use the map in real time from his monitor.
Real-time updates seem to be a critical element of Google Wave. Not only can conversations be updated in real time, but users who allow others access to their google wave can allow those users the ability to update thier waves in real time.
Rasmussen displayed the design document overseeing Google Wave, which featured not only collaborative editing but also embedded conversations within Google Wave, an interesting tweak to the collaborative tools already inside Microsoft Office and other suites.
A tool called “Bloggy” allows you to publish the entire wave, which can itself be updated like a normal wave in google wave.
Rasmussen and Hannon also said that the Google Wave model will be extended to Android for mobile updates. Integration with Firefox was also demonstrated as well.
Google will provide APIs so that developers can integrate their own code in to Google Wave. One of the ones demonstrated was with Twitter.
In Google Wave, tools called “Searchy” and “Linky” also will allow embedded links and real-time search. Google has come up with extensions called robots, which are embedded tools. The search is real-time, too: in one demo, Hannon searched for “wave”. Rasmussen, on his screen, saved his wave as “wav,” then again as “wave”. When he added the final “e”, the document showed up in Hannon’s search. Saving it again as “wav” instantly removed it from the list of search results. The team even added a real-time spell-checker in Google Wave.
Waves can be made private. Although Google monitors the ongoing google wave so that it can add links and other real-time capabilities, making a wave private blocks Google from viewing it at all, Hannon said.
No word yet on when Google Wave will be launched, but all I/O attendees will be given accounts for a more in-depth preview, most likely on Friday. Welcome Google Wave!
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