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Google devs chuck email, chat, lifestreaming into blender, create Wave
As if Google apps weren't useful enough already, a team of their developers have taken the wraps off a new project that will provide a major injection of realtime functionality.
Dubbed Wave, Google is positioning the new app as a kind conversation and collaboration system, a logical evolution of communication akin to the jump from mail to email, telephone to chat, or blogging to microblogging. They describe a wave as "equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."
Create a Wave, add people to it, toss in some gadgets, feeds, and photos, and mix with a rich text editor. You'll see new content in near-real time as your friends add it, and you can even hit the rewind button and watch your Wave evolve from scratch. Wave's power will come from its extensibility and ability to integrate with existing activity sources like GMail, Facebook, and Twitter.
Wave is built on HTML5 and the Google Web Toolkit. What's more, the team plans to make the source code powering Wave open source to encourage developer involvement in the project's continued growth and evolution. If you'd like to get involved, head over to the Wave Developer Blog for API information and a look at what you can build with Wave.
[via Official Google Blog ]
Dubbed Wave, Google is positioning the new app as a kind conversation and collaboration system, a logical evolution of communication akin to the jump from mail to email, telephone to chat, or blogging to microblogging. They describe a wave as "equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."
Create a Wave, add people to it, toss in some gadgets, feeds, and photos, and mix with a rich text editor. You'll see new content in near-real time as your friends add it, and you can even hit the rewind button and watch your Wave evolve from scratch. Wave's power will come from its extensibility and ability to integrate with existing activity sources like GMail, Facebook, and Twitter.
Wave is built on HTML5 and the Google Web Toolkit. What's more, the team plans to make the source code powering Wave open source to encourage developer involvement in the project's continued growth and evolution. If you'd like to get involved, head over to the Wave Developer Blog for API information and a look at what you can build with Wave.
[via Official Google Blog ]
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Todd said 4:41PM on 5-28-2009
"...Google [Wave] is a kind conversation and collaboration system, a logical evolution of communication ...describe a wave as "equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."
All without the need of Outlook, HotMail, PowerPoint, Word, or Windows itself for that matter - woo hoo!
Bonus - Browser must support HTML5 to use Wave, which means it will *never* be available for use in Internet Explorer :)
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Thomas said 9:38PM on 5-28-2009
If they are able to somehow integrate Skype into it, I'm in.
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Generic said 10:51PM on 5-28-2009
So will this compete with Flock the way Chrome competes with Firefox?
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wrs589 said 8:12AM on 5-29-2009
I'd say Wave is to Chrome what Flock is to Firefox.