Google Wave is a communication tool developed by Google in 2009 which allows for real-time communication and collaboration, and was designed to join e-mail, instant messaging, wiki and social networks into a single web service. It is planned to be released to the general public in 2009/2010, although it can be accessed now by the use of invitations. The main part of
Google Wave are what they call "waves": threads, designed to substitute e-mail, which can be both a conversation and a document where people are able to work and share information together using by richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Waves are updated to other people in real-time by using AJAX technologies, and can also be edited by other people in the Wave. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and it's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.
There is also support for the integration of widgets and bots, which add different kinds of additional services to the Wave, such as integration with other sites and social networks.
Anatomy of a Wave:
- A wave is an entire conversation on Google Wave. It is like a large back and forth thread with one or more people in a discussion forum or through an email.
- A wavelet is a smaller branch of conversation spawned from a large wave. This is like the smaller group of party-goers having a private conversation in the kitchen while everyone else hangs out in the living room. That same group could later rejoin the larger wave.
- A blip is the smallest unit of conversation. Think of a blip as a single email or a single instant message.
References:
Written by: Alejandro Martínez Castillo
Group 65 - D
Uploading ....