Google wave

Google’s newly unveiled Wave ,a communication and collaboration tool which have an integrated communications platform that brings together email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management ,photo-sharing, and collaborative  editing features .

Google describes a 'wave' as "equal parts conversation and document".Users  can  create  'waves,' and add documents and collaborators to it. The system will feature concurrent rich-text editing, as well as email and IM-like messaging functions.

Features

• Real-time
• Embeddability
• Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves.
• Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else
• Open source
• Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.
• Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling.
• Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.

A Wave inbox looks much like an email inbox. Wave team basically sees it as a replacement for email and other collaboration tools.The real-time connectedness of Wave is truly impressive. Drop photos onto a wave and see the thumbnails appear on the other person's machine before the photos are even finished uploading.

Read more from Google Blog | Google Wave

Category: Collaboration Tools, Google