What the Heck is Google Wave?
by TS on 20/12/09 at 6:33 pm
The Googe Wave Protocol is a real-time collaboration tool that is like the Swiss Army knife of email/chat/file collaboration and a million other uses.
They should have called it the Google Shmoo!
I love this video!
I enjoy the way they boil down a lot of heavy lifting tech to something understandable.
Check out this screen shot to see it in the wild:
Here is the low-down:
Pros: Free, easy to set up, versatile and truly promising.
Cons: Takes FOREVER to get invited. I know they want to throttle the service, but too much of a shortage will kill interest.
The good news is there are other services out there that collaborate like Wave. Check out EtherPad.
Visit the official Google Wave Blog, or visit http://wave.google.com
Want more? Check out the full Google Wave video from 2009 I/O [80 min]
2 Comments
chris
Dec 21st, 2009
At my college we use a different tool for working on our projects online.
Its free and needs no installation since its online, go to http://www.showdocument.com
pretty useful for me since i usually do my projects on the laptop. -chrisman
TS
Dec 21st, 2009
Interesting tool, I will have to look at their TOS to see what they do with the data. Some clients are sensitive about whether or not the ideas are being “monitored”.
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