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Yesterday's Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications. This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application - still very much in the early stages of development - that represents a profound advance in the state of the art.

Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the original creators of Google Maps, will take the stage to unveil their latest project, Google Wave. As Lars describes it, "We set out to answer the question: What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?"

That is exactly the right question, and one that every developer should be asking him or herself. The world of computing has changed, profoundly, yet so many of our applications bear the burden of decades of old thinking. We need to challenge our assumptions and re-imagine the tools we take for granted. It's perhaps no accident that this project, carried out secretly at Google's Sydney office over the past two years, had the code name Walkabout. That's the Australian aboriginal tradition of going off for an extended period to retrace the songlines and learn the world anew.

In answering the question, Jens, Lars, and team re-imagined email and instant-messaging in a connected world, a world in which messages no longer need to be sent from one place to another, but could become a conversation in the cloud. Effectively, a message (a wave) is a shared communications space with elements drawn from email, instant messaging, social networking, and even wikis.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-wave-what-might-email-l.html
 
Re: Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?

as with google,

love the ideas, hate the execution.
 
Re: Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?

boatsandstars said:
as with google,

love the ideas, hate the execution.
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This is from Google.

What are you talking about? Google.com? Google Chrome? Gmail? Or all of it?

Ed O.
 
Re: Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?

Also, it should be noted that the mock-ups were just examples of how it might look/work. The ultimate plan is not for this to be a Google product...but rather a standard web service, like e-mail or IM, neither of which is owned or produced by any company. Clients and servers are created by anyone to allow users to take part in the paradigm. That's the idea here, too...so how it works or looks would be based on who's client you used.
 
Re: Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?

synchronicity
 
Google Wave

Google just released their new Cloud-based software called Google Wave. It is completely free but there is a catch... They are only sending out 100,000 invites for the first stage of testing.

So my question is, anyone have an invite they want to send to me?! :D
 
Re: Google Wave

What exactly is it?
(not computer smart)
 
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Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
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It is basically a social network but EVERYTHING is there.
 
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Ronan said:
It is basically a social network but EVERYTHING is there.
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So this is what will replace facebook...er and everything else?

Sounds too good to be true.
 
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Ronan said:
Google just released their new Cloud-based software called Google Wave. It is completely free but there is a catch... They are only sending out 100,000 invites for the first stage of testing.

So my question is, anyone have an invite they want to send to me?! :D
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My friend got it. He was on the list. I am going to ask him to send it to me. Then of course I will share the wealth!
 
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Looks like a great business application for companies that have distributed offices, I hope we get an invite soon, it would be very useful.
 
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yeah. problem is that it needs to get integrated through everyone...perhaps its a better version of "Gotomeeting" from what it seems like with a more integrated IM client?
 
Re: Google Wave

Same here. I'd rep you for the rest of your life. lol ;)
 
Re: Google Wave

He wrote back. Google has not released it yet. He was on the waiting list like a month ago. They said it was supposed to be released on Wednesday. So maybe sometime tonight.
 
I heard that the started releasing the invites earlier today, but that could be just a rumor. It is a trending topic on Twitter so I just assumed it was the truth.

They will probably slowly send out the invites, though.

Thank you for the merge, Minty. :)
 
my prediction: people will use it for about a week then it will be forgotten for the most part.
 
Me = International conference calls

You = meetings with the dishwasher at International house of pancakes
 
I've tried some of these "cloud" solutions...Evernote, freshbooks, MS's online doc story, Zoho, google docs, I-Disk..most of them are still very naive and what I wouldn't consider very usuable in their current form.

I use skype for IM and phone calls, but that's about it. Gotomeeting.com and Gotomypc.com and other ones too (logmein, etc) but those really aren't cloud computing.

I have a shared cloud disk on Jungledisk but there's a lag with accessing files and its not that great
 
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