Google Wave

Google Wave is a new personal communication and collaboration tool that was launched to 100,000 users in October 2009, with each user asked to invite twenty other users.

The platform combines elements of e-mail, instant messaging, social networks and wikis in documents called waves, that can be edited at any point in the conversation. The complete threads, called blips, are stored on a central server, allowing any user to add or remove any of the messaged content from their personal devices at any time.

Any participant in the "wave" can reply or edit any part of it, as well as add others to it. Google Wave's web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit and is written in Java using Open JDK. Essentially a more advanced form of network communication, Google Wave allows for more collaboration among multiple users simultaneously and in real time.

You'll find bloggers talking about Google Wave at sites like Google Blog and Google System.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Google Wave”

• Google Wave overview

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 510
  Something totally non-political for you this morning...watched this last night after seeing it circulated on twitter. Looks like it could be a great organizational tool. Any group can use the wave function to collaborate on documents, circulate ideas, brainstorm. It seems to be a way for groups to tap into a central ...
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• Google Wave Invitation

  
  CheatAd ! — Authority: 123
  Today is surely my day. I got so excited today for finally getting my Google Wave invitation. Even more excited than anticipating my first seminar next week. Oh, well. Anyone has got Google Wave here? Connect with me at alfanhendro@g*****wave.com Related posts: Questions For Google Wave Google ...
  12 hours ago

• ideasareawesome:What is Google Wave?Google Wave is boring if...

  
  Taufiq — Authority: 438
  ideasareawesome : What is Google Wave? Google Wave is boring if you’re the only one that uses it. I don’t have invites to give away (yet), but if you’re already in, add me? taufiq.zainal@googlewave.com
  19 hours ago

• So… Im on google Wave

  
  Weblog of Edward de Leau — Authority: 142
  And thanks to Martijn Bastiaan I now entered the world of Google Wave: Let’s start exploring! Tags: google-wave Related posts Google Wave: A Complete Guide (0)
  21 hours ago

• The Google Wave Invitation Donation Thread Is Open [Google Wave]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 817
  In our continuing efforts to help as many of our readers get a chance to play around with Google Wave as possible, were back again with our (now weekly) Google Wave invitation donation thread. Note: Read the entire post carefully before commenting. If youve got Wave invitations youre willing to donate, post a ...
  23 hours ago

• Get Google Wave Invite – Just Retweet and Leave a Comment !

  
  Geek Blog — Authority: 133
  Finally Google Wave has provided us with some Invites to have more people on the Google Wave. If you are interested to get an Invite for Google Wave, Just Leave a Comment below with valid Email address and Retweet this post . You don’t need to mention your Email address in the comments we will get them ...
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• Google Wave Theory v. Reality [Photo]

  
  Social Media Law Student — Authority: 470
  Related posts: Two Complete Google Wave Guides Available When to use Google Wave Google: The Mighty Gets Mightier
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• Google Wave “following and unfollowing” features

  
  D' Technology Weblog — Authority: 527
  To reduce clogging up Google Wave inboxes from public waves; Google introduced concepts of ‘following and unfollowing’ Wave documents. Now, clicking on a public wave no longer causes it to appear and stay in your inbox; you’ve to explicitly choose to "follow" the wave. Please note: new "unfollow" feature ...
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• Google Wave Disappointment

  
  Paul L. McCord Jr. — Authority: 416
  For those of you that are sitting around on pins and needles waiting for an invite to Google Wave , do not waste your time.  I was doing the same thing from May until October until some nice gentleman sent me an invite.  This invite came in October, over a month ago and so far there is still no one on it.  Of the ...
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• Riding the Wave

  
  Population of One — Authority: 117
  I just got a Google Wave invite after begging Google for one some weeks ago. Which is ironic, since I already got one a week or so ago from a friend in my guild. I poked at it the first day, decided it looked like I didn’t know anyone else with Wave and left it alone while I waited for the power to invite my ...
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• Google Wave invitations

  
  connexions — Authority: 547
  I can’t claim that Google wave is the most important software I’ve ever used on the web, but I have had a bit of fun with it. I’m sure that its usefulness will increase with its userbase. I don’t think it will be everyone’s cup of tea, but what do I know? My record at [...]
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• 20 Google Wave invitation for readers

  
  Computer Talks |Fix Problems of your PC — Authority: 115
  Well,I finally got Google wave invitation from Google . Yesterday, I asked friends on facebook for the Google Wave invitation and was lucky that Google sent me a invitation in the morning.So, I am giving it for 20 readers of mine who are active on ths site. For getting a Google wave invitation do become [...]Related ...
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• Google Acquires VoIP company Gizmo5 for Google Voice

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 492
  Google has acquired Gizmo5, a company that offers voice-over-IP software for mobile phones and computers, for about $30 Million intending to roll the company’s engineers into the team that develops the telephony application/controversy magnet known as Google Voice.Whereas Gizmo5 offers Skype-like software for ...
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• Google Wave invites.

  
  News You Can't Use ! — Authority: 134
  Apologies for the barrage of posts. You asked for it though ! I just received 30-odd invites for Google Wave. If anyone wants an invite, please pass on your Gmail address in the comments section (do not mention your email address in the comment, only where you write your info). Anyone interested ? If yes … ...
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• Trending Twitter Topics- Google Wave

  
  My Philly Network — Authority: 142
  Image via CrunchBase Who is @wave_info ? A quick look up tells this is either a private account or a non-existent one. At any rate GoogleWave is on everyone’s mind. That’s cool, soon everyone will be connected to one huge server cluster. Like like a cloud or a bot or sky net…wait. TrueVisionDubbz ...
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• Catching the Google Wave

  
  Des Walsh dot Com — Authority: 108
  A new user guide to Google Wave will hopefully help some of us see how it can be of use Just when I and maybe others started to wonder whether Google Wave was worth the fanfare, and how to use it in any seriously productive way,  a new guide to Wave has been released, which claims to be comprehensive as well as ...
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• Google Wave: How to Embed Videos in Wave

  
  Babeled - six guys who have never been in your kitchen — Authority: 124
  Great, you’re up in running in Google Wave, you’ve got some contacts and you’ve got some cool videos you want to share. Method 1: Embedding Videos with the HTML Gadget 1. Open up a Wave. It can be a new Wave or one you’re already actively collaborating in. 2. Within the Wave, select  Add Gadget by URL ...
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• Google Adds New Tools to Manage Public Waves

  
  ModCool — Authority: 455
  Google Wave is really just a rough pre-beta right now. So any attempts to clean it up and add features are more than welcome. Today the Wave team posted about the newest feature, following waves . This should make the process of managing public waves much less awkward. From now on, clicking on a public wave will no ...
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• get a google wave invite

  
  Irish Internet Entrepreneur - Smemon — Authority: 127
  A couple of days ago i got an invite from leateds.com to google wave . Up until then i hadn’t really been too bothered about it… photo credit: sifarat I see wave’s potential, but i don’t think it will ever be fully realised any time soon. I do think it’ll pave the way for similar services ...
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• My Latest, Favorite Google Wave Tips and Updates

  
  Web Burning Blog — Authority: 148
  Been hornlike at impact activity The Complete Guide to Google Wave for its PDF entry this month. The Wave aggroup has been making it more arduous with (welcome) changes to the app on the test life of copyedit. I’ve been updating a book-specific Twitter stream, @gwaveguide , with Wave programme and tips, but ...
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