Recently Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5.0 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications & announced an HTML 5.0 based application - still very much in the early stages of development - that represents a profound advance in the state of the art.
Lars and Jens (the original creators of Google Maps) took the stage to unveil their latest project, Google Wave.
It's perhaps no accident that this project, carried out secretly at Google's Sydney office over the past two years, had the code name Walkabout.
jens pointed out, Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum? How simple could we make it?
Google Wave is a new communication service previewed today at Google I/O.
A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.
A wave inbox looks much like an email inbox. But look to the right, and you can see how the replies are embedded right into the middle of the original message.
"In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content -- it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave to see how it evolved."
"Google promises that Google Wave will be available later this year".
For more information:
- http://wave.google.com the eventual home for Google Wave. For now a place to learn more and sign up to be notified when we launch
- http://code.google.com/apis/wave home for the API, documentation and sample code
Source- Youtube, Google wave, Mashable, Techcrunch, Google I/O.
