Google WAVE

Last night as I was surfing around the internets..i came across a blog about Google's latest toy, WAVE. Google WAVE is is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps. A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when. A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

I was quite impressed at what it is capable of. They are pretty much in the final stages of releasing this but what I found very interesting is that they are allowing the public to write code for this. This enables the public to view, re-design, and evaluate the product before launch. This allows Google to make any changes or modifications before launch.

I'm not the most computer savoy person in the world, especially when it comes to writing code or html. But i can see for the guru this is must be heaven for them. Being able to write what they want and send it in to be evaluated and possibly used.

One feature I do like is the editing of email and context. You are able to reply to specific parts of an email rather than applying to the whole document. Another one is the ability to update other sites through WAVE without having to open new windows on the desktop, especially with their maps.

Below are two videos explaining WAVE in a more in depth fashion. One is an 1.5 video on the product @ I-O 2009 and the other is a short overview.

Enjoy!