Google Wave
Posted by bordalix Thu, 28 May 2009 18:24:00 GMT
Google will launch in a few months a revolutionary new product, named Google Wave. Last time I got so excited about a Google product was on Gmail's launch. But what is Google Wave? Via the Webmonkey blog:
Wave is a web-based application that marries multiple forms of communication and collaboration, including chat, mail and wikis, into a unified interface. Everything inside Wave happens in real time: You can even see a comment being made as the person is typing it, character-by-character
The Webmonkey blog post also has a screenshot of the service - since some lucky souls are already beta testing it - which I proudly stolen:
That's a terrific productivity tool, instantaneous (latency of low milliseconds) and licensed as open source. It becomes now clear why Google isn't interested in Twitter.
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If you need real-time rich collaboration you can already do it in a standard way…
Go and see http://drop.io/ real-time collaboration areas.
You can see a screen cast here: http://drop.io/howto
Reading the spec, Wave wants to be a much complete protocol for synchronization. Its very complex….