Below you’ll find the draft Google Wave Federation Protocol, and the canonical copy is maintained in Subversion hosted at: http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/. The intellectual property related to this protocol is licensed under a liberal patent license. If you’d like to contribute to the specification, please review the community principles.
Please note this is a very early draft. A number of areas are known to be underspecified (such as which errors to return when, etc) or in the midst of editing. However, we welcome comments and discussion about it!
The following was reported on in the LA Times blog, a very good over all review of Google Wave.
Ever feel like you have information overload?
You start Gmail to find a few dozen new messages, thousands of spams and a bunch of friends shouting at you via instant message the moment you sign-in.
Then, you hop over to Picasa, Google’s photo-sharing software, to find your family and friends have just uploaded hundreds of snapshots of their trip to Aruba or of your baby
Google Wave is a project announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 28, 2009 [see above video] It is a web application and computing platform designed to bring together e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking, with a strong collaborative focus, mixed with spellchecker and translator extensions, which are able to work in concert, in real-time. It is planned to be released later in 2009.
Google Wave can make you more productive even when you’re having fun.
About Google Wave
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