30 Oct 09 What exactly is Google Wave? What will/can it do?

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Here is a preview of Google Wave and  a nice overview.

Google Wave can make you more productive even when you’re having fun.

About Google Wave

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.

What is a wave? A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. 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.

Some key technologies in Google Wave
Real-time collaboration	Natural language tools	Extending Google Wave
Concurrency control technology lets all people on a wave edit rich media at the same time. Watch the tech video	Server-based models provide contextual suggestions and spelling correction. Watch the tech video	Embed waves in other sites or add live social gadgets, thanks to Google Wave APIs.

Develop
Learn how to put waves in your site and build wave extensions with the Google Wave APIs.
Visit code.google.com/apis/wave.

Build
Google Wave uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system.
Learn more at www.waveprotocol.org.

Exerts from: informationweek.com

Google Riding ‘Wave’ To Redefine Collaboration

… Wave encompasses more than e-mail. It matches or exceeds the functionality of several major application types, including instant messaging, discussion forum software, wikis, and blogs. Rather, it will eventually, as it moves toward commercial release later this year.

Google Wave is a product, a platform, and a protocol. It’s a cross between conversation and document that allows users to do with one tool what they currently do with many. It works in a Web browser on the desktop or on mobile phones, like Apple’s iPhone or Google Android devices.

Just as Ajax technology has blurred the identity of Web sites by allowing content to be embedded on any Web site, Wave blurs the distinctions between communications modes and between content creation applications.

Writing a Wave is a lot like typing text into Gmail, Google Docs, or a blog posting form in one’s browser. To the left of the right-hand column featuring the discussion, there’s an in-box with other Waves. And to the left of that, there’s a navigation pane atop a list of contacts that looks very similar to Gmail’s layout.

Thanks to the federated design, people will be able to contribute to Waves with many collaborators and still mark certain posts private. In cases where there’s a Wave featuring input from individuals associated with several organizations and two participants from the same organizations post privately to each other, those replies can be set to reside on an internal Wave server rather than the Wave server hosting the larger public discussion.

Unlike online forums or wikis, Waves reflect changes in more or less real time: You can see responses appear from Wave participants as the typing occurs, network latency permitting. There is, however, an option to show a reply only after all typing has been completed.

Wave has the makings of a killer app, like e-mail before it. And while it may be tempting to assume that a killer app might put an end to less-capable modes of communication, like Twitter or forum software, Rasmussen insists Google’s goal is to foster connection and communication rather than cull the herd.

Developers, he said, could probably “build a nice integration between Wave and Twitter that would help make Twitter even more popular.”

Even so, as Google Wave breaks and comes ashore later this year, it could leave many applications gasping for breath.

Google engineer David Wang explains how collaborative editing through concurrency control and operational transform work in Google Wave.

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