Google Wave launched - with the potential to replace email, blogging and more
Last week Google announced at their 'Google IO' developers conference something I'm sure we're going to be hearing a lot more over the next year, Google Wave.
How do I describe Google Wave?
It's basically a reinvention of how to electronically interact with other people and documents, done afresh from the ground up. It combines collaboration tools and document sharing and editing in what could well be the replacement for email, twittering, blogging, wiki's, teamsites, instant messaging and many other forms of disjointed communication.
You have to go and watch the Google Wave launch video, and although it runs to an hour and twenty minutes you'll soon realise why this could be the "next big thing".
Google have apparently been working on this for the last two years, and although the software is still in a pre-beta state it's still a fairly impressive demo.
Google say they will launch Google Wave later on this year but the Wave APIs and interface protocol have already been made freely available under an open source licence.
One to watch methinks ...
(and I'm not the only one to think this, I just noticed that there's already 3,200 RSS subscribers to the Google Wave Developer Blog)
How do I describe Google Wave?
It's basically a reinvention of how to electronically interact with other people and documents, done afresh from the ground up. It combines collaboration tools and document sharing and editing in what could well be the replacement for email, twittering, blogging, wiki's, teamsites, instant messaging and many other forms of disjointed communication.
You have to go and watch the Google Wave launch video, and although it runs to an hour and twenty minutes you'll soon realise why this could be the "next big thing".
Google have apparently been working on this for the last two years, and although the software is still in a pre-beta state it's still a fairly impressive demo.
Google say they will launch Google Wave later on this year but the Wave APIs and interface protocol have already been made freely available under an open source licence.
One to watch methinks ...
(and I'm not the only one to think this, I just noticed that there's already 3,200 RSS subscribers to the Google Wave Developer Blog)
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