Google Wave: Email, IM, Documents Revolutionized
By Jared Newman
Perhaps because Google revolutionized e-mail and Web searches, the company is getting the benefit of the doubt for its latest app, called Google Wave. Billed as a reinvention of e-mail, Google Wave lets users communicate through a form of instant messaging that can expand into group text editing, event planning, blogging and gaming. It all depends on what extensions developers bring to the table, and how users themselves decide what to do with them. One example at Google’s I/O conference had a robot translating in real time, while another included real time map manipulation between two users. In the end, all of these creations can be searched, collaborated on, tracked or published, if the user chooses. It’s the kind of creation that seems cool in theory, if only we could understand its reason for existence. There’s no word on when Google Wave will be available to the masses, but I/O attendees will get preview accounts later this week. [via PC Magazine]
