Google: Wave, an early version of a collaboration and communication tool, was recently announced and released to developers. It consolidates email, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia, and document sharing, into one interactive application. By presenting Google: Wave to the community now, Google has committed the project to open-source development in hopes of inspiring IT professionals everywhere to find revolutionary new ways to apply their own applications to Wave, before the product’s launch later this year.
“We’re banking on Wave having a very large impact, but a lot of it depends on our ability to explain this to users. That’s part of the reason why we’re putting this out early to developers,” said Lars Rasmussen, Wave project co-founder. “Now is a good time for developers to start picking up the APIs, building cool applications and extensions, so when we do launch later this year our users and their users can enjoy all these things together.”
In their eighty minute presentation at Google’s annual I/O conference co-founders Lars and Jens Rasmussen, of Google: Maps acclaim, demonstrated a number of of already functional applications. This included multiple Wave Clients, Photo Sharing, multi-user live-interaction, contextual spell check, live language-translation, and API’s interacting with applications outside the demonstration hall. With just minimal interaction, Wave easily co-opted its operation with data mining, Google: Maps, an unspecified blog client, and Twitter.
Wave is built on Google Web Toolkit using HTML 5, and is designed to let developers extend its functionality and integrate it with other Web services. By design, Wave lets people create a document using a client no more advanced than a Web-Browser, where multiple users can add and edit rich text, multimedia, gadget applications and feeds concurrently.
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