http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/05/28/google-wave en-us 40 Simplicity, Usability, Productivity, Code, Design, Business and more <p>Google will launch in a few months a revolutionary new product, named <a href="http://wave.google.com/">Google Wave</a>. Last time I got so excited about a Google product was on Gmail's launch. But what is Google Wave? Via the <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Google_Waves_Goodbye_to_E-Mail__Welcomes_Real-Time_Communication">Webmonkey blog</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>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</p></blockquote> <p>The <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Google_Waves_Goodbye_to_E-Mail__Welcomes_Real-Time_Communication">Webmonkey blog post</a> also has a screenshot of the service - since some lucky souls are already beta testing it - which I proudly stolen:</p> <a href="http://joaobordalo.com/files/waveuismall.jpeg"<img width="440" src="http://joaobordalo.com/files/waveuismall.jpeg"></a> <p>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.</p> Thu, 28 May 2009 13:24:00 -0500 urn:uuid:9c6dcbe5-cb14-4b1b-98f3-fa2830f493a8 bordalix http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/05/28/google-wave google wave <p>If you need real-time rich collaboration you can already do it in a standard way&#8230;</p> <p>Go and see <a href="http://drop.io/" rel="nofollow">http://drop.io/</a> real-time collaboration areas.</p> <p>You can see a screen cast here: <a href="http://drop.io/howto" rel="nofollow">http://drop.io/howto</a></p> <p>Reading the spec, Wave wants to be a much complete protocol for synchronization. Its very complex&#8230;.</p> Fri, 29 May 2009 01:20:47 -0500 urn:uuid:47275217-624e-4ca6-9a19-a7bf32897c80 http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/05/28/google-wave#comment-830