Google Wave, Real-Time Communication and Collaboration Tool, Explained for Beginners.
Google has worked a lot on perfecting its eagerly awaited product Google Wave. There has already been lots of buzz on the Internet and people have been waiting for next big thing from Google’s stable. But after watching Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 in May 2009, curiosity levels of everybody who has been a regular on Internet has gone up. 30th September 2009 was an important day for Google Wave when Wave invites were sent to 100,000 users.
Google describes Google Wave on their website as
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.
Google Wave has been coded in Java using OpenJDK and is a equal parts conversation and document. It has the features or both email as well as instant messaging depending upon whether the two users are offline or online. While emailing each other, we send emails with all related messages and previous conversations. These messages and data are then stored on each other’s Inbox. But in case of a Waves, the multimedia messages are stored on central server.
These waves can be shared and collaborators can be added or removed at any stage. At any stage Wave can be edited by any of its active collaborators. All replies and edits can be seen online step by step., character by character. All Waves can be linked to each other. Their past history is preserved and is stored in the Wave itself. So that at any time one can resort to playback option to see what changes have been made by each of their collaborators. Documents can be just dragged and dropped on to the screen for all collaborators to refine and edit.
There are some interesting videos on YouTube which describes Google Wave and some of its cool features.
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009.
Google Wave: Live collaborative editing
May also like to read: Microsoft Groove Vs Google Wave.
many people who have registered long back are upset for Google has sent the invitations randomly and many of those who registered long back are not invited. I am one among them.
Yes. But I suppose Google apart from registration date has used other criteria as well to filter out the applicants for Google Wave.