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on 2009-07-08 by grahamperrin

Referred from http://www.twine.com/item/12vl3j33d-1bl/google-wave-drips-with-ambition-a-new-communication-platform-for-a-new-web

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Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it.

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We now have a much more robust web full of content and brimming with a desire to share stuff. Or as Lars Rasumussen put it, “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.”

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“Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.”

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“Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.”

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a list of your contacts, from Google Contacts

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it feature the faces of your friends who are involved in each thread.

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Clicking on any of the wave threads will open another pane to the right of the inbox that shows that wave in its entirety. Let’s say one wave is a message from a friend and you want to reply to it. If they’re not currently online, you can do it below their message just as you may in Gmail. Except there’s no bulky new message creator to pop open, you simply start typing below your friend’s message. But perhaps you want to respond to a particular part of their message — well you can do that too simply by starting to type below the part you’re replying to

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You can also edit things wiki-style with concurrent group collaboration.

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if you have a browser with Gears installed, all you have to do is drag and drop the pictures right into the Wave window

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it wants you to be able to use it across all sites on the web.

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you could enable anonymous collaboration on the wave on your site

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For example, plenty of companies user some type of management system for communication beyond email or IM. We use Yammer, and when I was with VentureBeat, we used a FriendFeed private room. Yammer is good but it is just basically Twitter on your own system. The FriendFeed room is much more dynamic, but FriendFeed hosts that. Wave could offer the best of both worlds, and they’re all for companies or even individuals hosting Waves on their own servers.

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Google isn’t just thinking of Wave as another web app that it creates and you use on one site — it wants you to be able to use it across all sites on the web

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“We want it to be an open system like email. We want other services to build Wave services even in competition with Google,”

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The first is Google Wave, the product, which Google creates, works on and eventually releases to the public as a web app. The second is Google Wave, the platform, which we outlined above as a system in place for developers to get involved in and create things for. But the third aspect is Google Wave, the protocol, which is its existence as a web communication platform. Find out more at the Waveprotocol.org site.

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Wave is very much centered around the key fundamentals Google is focusing on with HTML 5: The canvas element, the video element, geolocation, App Cache and Database and Web Workers.

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key fundamentals Google is focusing on with HTML 5: The canvas element, the video element, geolocation, App Cache and Database and Web Workers.

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