What is it?
- It’s a communication and collaboration tool.
- A ‘Wave’ is a collaborative conversation, but way more advanced than a simple group IM or email.
- It uses real-time all-party data to update info for all participants.
- They’ve only been working on it for 2 years.
So?
- It’s open-source, allowing anyone to develop extra bits for it.
- Developers already have open-source accounts, so when it launches there will be a ton of extras already.
- It’s like having IM in an email thread, except it shows character by character, rather than “Leon is typing…..” for 5 mins and then showing the message
- Join/be added to a conversation half-way through, and see all the stuff that’s gone on
- Reply to a previous part of a conversation – all participants see your input, even though it’s late
- Watch ‘conversations’ like video, viewing the playback of how it got to where it is
- Add music files, video files, images to a conversations, all people see them. No uploading to flickr & sending a link for example
- It seems massively extensible: do a google search from within the Wave and add the link/image etc without needing to go off to a different site and copy things over
- Add Google Maps to your conversation, change the zoom etc after embedding and it updates in real-time for all participants
Further reading…
- More info: http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html
- Really long (1:20:00) presentation here: http://wave.google.com/
- APIs: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/
- Learn about the open-source protocol: http://www.waveprotocol.org/
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