As Google promised to reveal something interesting on the second day of the Google I/O conference, and they announced Google Wave- the next evolution of email.Google wave a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool which was created by the two programmers jens and Lars Rasmussen who were behind Google maps.

Jens and Lars with his team of five people of sydney, Australia a prototype.They started this project two years ago and they are ready to show their product later this year.


Google new real time communication platform Google Wave is a next generation hybrid mailing and IM service.The interesting feature is that the ability to replay conversations because it records the entire sequence of communication, character by character. Because of this, discussions are also live in Google Wave, you will see your friends type character-by-character.

You can drag and drop your attachments from your desktop and it loads the file and immediately to anyone who are in conversation with.Google Wave is also embeddable, so you can embed Google Wave conversations on any blog.



It looks like normal Gmail Inbox service but more focused on your Contacts and User interface which will make users more convenient.As for conversations ,Well! its a bit different that usual as you can add thoughts to your conversations and the communication is really shared ,you can even go for conference too.



The features don't stop here are few more:

* Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.

* Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.


* Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook (Facebook reviews) application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.


* Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a developing conversation.

* Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

* Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.


* Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.


* Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.

It’s also important to note Wave is very much a web app, built entirely in JavaScript and with several HTML 5 elements for modern browsers which support the nascent spec.

There were several other great extensions and robots that were demonstrated at google I/o. Here’s just a few of the coolest ones:

* Debuggy: A robot that responds with debugging information about each event on a wave

* Stocky: Automatically detects stock quotes and provides real-time stock information

* Bloggy: Pushes wave content to a blog

* Maps: Allows for collaboration on a Google map to plan events

* Bidder: You can turn a Wave into your own eBay

* Ratings: All Wave participants can rate and review items - then it will show you a tally of the results.

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