Developers at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco have gotten a preview of Google Wave, a product which takes a fresh look at how people communicate and collaborate online. Google Wave will be made available to a small number of developers worldwide to allow them to contribute to the technology before it is launched to the public.
Google Wave aims to re-think what a single communications platform might look like if started from scratch, and considers how people might interact online more effectively.
With Wave, multiple users will be able to exchange real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space known as a ‘wave’. Everyone invited to the wave will be able to insert a reply or edit the wave directly, see instantly what fellow collaborators are typing and even publish a wave to a blog or website, where the content will update instantly as the wave changes. The aim is to allow people to communicate and work together in a richer, more instant and integrated way.
“Two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, e-mail and instant messaging, were originally designed in the ’60s. Since then, so many different forms of communication have been invented – blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. – and computers and networks have dramatically improved,” said Lars Rasmussen, software engineering manager. “With Google Wave, we’re proposing a new communications model that presumes all these advances as a starting point. After more than two years of expanding our ideas, our team, and technology, we’re very eager to return and see what the world might think.”
Google Wave will include features like the ability to see text as it is being written in real time in collaboration with other users remotely and to be able to replay realtime events – such as being able to see the removal and replacement of pieces of text.
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