About Google Wave
Google wave
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document.
People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
Some key technologies in Google Wave
Real time collaboration. Concurrency control technology lets all people on a wave edit rich media at the same time.
Natural language tools. Server-based models provide contextual suggestions and spelling correction.
There is a huge extensibility of Google wave. This will make it possible to embed waves in other sites or add live social gadgets, thanks to Google Wave APIs.
There is a so called Google Wave Federation Protocol
“Google Wave introduces a new communication and collaboration platform built around hosted conversations called waves. The wave model enables people to communicate and work together in new and more effective ways. The Google Wave Federation Protocol is the underlying network protocol for sharing waves between wave providers. The protocol is open to contributions by the broader community with the goal to continue to improve how we share information, together.“ (Source www.waveprotocal.org)
There is a very long introductory video for Google wave, about 1 hour long…but if you have some min, try to watch it, it has some pretty good introductory and demonstration of how and what Google is all about.
More information about Google Wave from Google wave preview site
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