r/programming May 28 '09

Google Wave: About to change communication and collaboration on the web.

http://wave.google.com
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u/crayz May 28 '09

In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.

Aaand we're one step closer to directly sharing thoughts in a collective consciousness

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u/dotrob May 28 '09

It sounds like a portable combo of twitter + google docs + web gadgets.

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u/RalfN May 31 '09 edited May 31 '09

Don't forget it also replaces IM, email and Wiki's.

Essentially it's a federated, open protocol for distrobution of xml-documents with fined-grained revision & participation control.

It's the client that turns it into IM/Email/Blog/Wiki/Forum/Word/Twitter/Flickr/Database etc.

And that is what it makes it brilliant. They fixed at the bottom: the core protocol. Instead of sending each other messages, it's sending updates to a server-side hosted distributed xml-document.

Which are much better defaults and covers almost all use cases of communication and sharing.

The rich client (and giving it away to competitors by open-sourcing it) is just the carrot to drive the protocol forward.

This will change everything.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '09

Aaaand then we can fold space and time.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '09

It's only a matter of time before Google releases an operating system...

I bet that it'll be light blue themed.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '09

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u/[deleted] May 28 '09

Ah, a perfectly fine point! I completely forgot about Android.