Google unveils the Wave

Google I/O 2009 showed off some of the most innovative web browser tools yet. But none will match up against the collaboration and communications environment that is Google Wave.

After the revealing of the various new extensions, now embedded into the HTML standard, such as The Video Tag, or Canvas tag, Google released the grand daddy of all web APIs.

Communication

Wave can be used for communication purposes, allowing a user to create a Wave, invite people to that wave, and use that wave as one of many different means of communication. Communicating through Wave can be done in various forms, from instant messaging to email. You can also create other activities such as Polls.

Collaboration

Wave can be used as a multi-user work environment, allowing more than one user to edit rich text files simultaniously. Group effort webpage development will be a breeze with the help of Wave.

Open Source

Wave will be completely open source, allowing users to create their own Wave apps and APIs. Anything from games to code editors, you’ll be able to make it with Wave.

Open Federation

Open Federation means that you can create your own Wave API and be able to communicate with anyone within the Wave protocol. For example, if Mikeumus is in the Red Vets Wave API, and Player(1337) is in Player’s Wave API, Mikeumus and Player can both communicate with each other, despite being on two different APIs.

With the release of Wave (hopefully) close, it’ll definitely be a part of my work environment.

For more information on Google Wave or Google I/O, visit

http://wave.google.com/
http://code.google.com/events/io/

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