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Messaging & Online Collaboration: Crack Google Developer Team Unleashes the Wave

By Darryl K. Taft on 2009-06-01


At its Google I/O developer conference on May 28, Google demonstrated Google Wave, a new mode of communication out of the team that brought Google Maps to the world. Google Wave is a combination of e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing and a lot more. In a blog post, Lars Rasmussen, a software engineering manager at Google and half of the core team whose original ideas led to both Google Maps and the new Wave technology, said his brother Jens convinced him that the future of communication should be the next concept for the team to conquer after maps.

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Crack Google Developer Team Unleashes the Wave

By Darryl Taft

Here is an example of a group conversation on Google Wave.

Here is how concurrent rich-text editing works in Wave.

This is a sample Wave extension for event planning.

This shows an event planning message with a map.

This is an example of a Wave extension for games.

Here is how you add someone to a Wave.

This is how contextual spell-checking works in Wave.

Here is a video of the demonstration of Google Wave at the Google I/O conference.

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