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 Preview survey ‘3 things you like most’

  
  D' Technology Weblog — Authority: 546
  Google Wave is currently running an online survery to get users feedback about their Wave experience and to know ‘how people use Google Wave differently over time?’ Google shared about what people’re actually doing with waves, while this may not be a complete representative sample of all Wave users, ...
  1 hour ago

• How to Ping Any One of Your Contacts in Google Wave

  
  Technically Inspired — Authority: 136
  If you want to send instant message to any one of your contacts live in Google Wave , you can just Ping them. Pinging is similar to chatting . Once you ping them that conversation will become a wave. The contacts who are online will appear with green ball at the bottom of their profile image similar to in Gmail. ...
  4 hours ago

• Google Wave Invite Give Away

  
  Blazing Minds — Authority: 534
  Hey everyone, I have several invites for Google Wave to give away, so I thought I would give readers the opportunity to get an invite! If you are interested in getting an invite for Google Wave , then simply leave a comment here on this post and I will then invite you to use Google Wave, but this is a first come ...
  5 hours ago

• Google Wave so far

  
  JortK.nl — Authority: 136
  We’re thankful that so many people have been willing to try out Google Wave in a host of different areas: personal, business, government, education and even not-for-profit. We’ve been glad to see positive responses, especially since we’re still in a limited preview and not quite ready to give accounts to ...
  6 hours ago

• Google Wave has potential for making you more productive? Users Feedback

  
  Ub News — Authority: 522
  Google wave is introduced for communicating and collaborating and really this has lot of potential to make you more productive. The beta version is under testing and lot of people are actively using Google wave and Google is busy in collecting Feedback from its ongoing Survey. Everyone has accepted that Google Wave ...
  7 hours ago

• Your thoughts on waving so far – Google Wave Blog

  
  Dawns Divine Designs and Writings, "A Business and Spiritual Site" — Authority: 156
  This is on the google blog, the reviews are coming in from Wave. Some complaints on email and other issues, and people complaining of not enough invites, although the only ones supposed to have filled out the survey were the ones who tried it. I guess that is what the joke meant that I posted up earlier this week of ...
  8 hours ago

• What Users Like/Dislike About Google Wave [DATA]

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 869
  Google has been actively collecting feedback on Google Wave with an ongoing survey, which was distributed via email, the help center, and Twitter. Today they’ve published the initial findings for public dissection. So far results indicate that users love the concept of Wave, appreciate the collobartion ...
  12 hours ago

• Get Your Google Wave Invite Here

  
  Multimedia-PCs — Authority: 129
  It seems like a good day to give away free stuff. So I’ll start it off with some Google Wave invites. I’ll give at least 10 invites out. All you have to do is leave a comment below. Make sure it’s a valid email address. I will use random.org to select the winners. I’ll pick the winners on Sunday. ...
  18 hours ago

• Google Wave Invitations were sent!

  
  mail2web.com Blog — Authority: 130
  Thank you so much for your participation! Google Wave invitations run out, for now. Keep following us! Related posts: Google Wave Invitations! D-Wave Quantum Computer Redux Google Circa 1999
  20 hours ago

• Google’s cool new look, here’s how to try it yourself…

  
  Livbit — Authority: 142
  The world’s most heavily trafficked website, Google.com will soon have a new look. Although it is not drastically different, but there are some new prominent cosmetic changes. The first and foremost are the extra-bluish “Google Search” and “I’m feeling lucky” buttons, which I think some people might find a ...
  20 hours ago

• Google Wave, Happy Black Friday, New Moon, Christmas, Wal-Mart, Happy Thanksgiving, BlackFriday and other Trends

  
  Athens GA Properties - Athens Area Real Estate — Authority: 129
  Google Wave Happy Black Friday New Moon Christmas Wal-Mart Dubai openwebawards Xmas Happy Thanksgiving BlackFriday Went to Twitter a few minutes ago and tried to see what was “trendy” today.  Post-Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and apparently for some reason Dubai made the list.  I can understand New ...
  21 hours ago

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

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 816
  Were pretty into Google Wave, and we want to give our readers get a crack at playing around with the invite-only preview, so were back with our 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 comment ...
  21 hours ago

• 15 Google Wave Invitations Must Be Won By #Twittercism Readers

  
  Twittercism — Authority: 463
  Google Wave has been a top ten trending topic on Twitter for weeks now and gets thousands and thousands of mentions each and every day. Google originally limited the preview release of Wave to just 100,000 users, and while over a million people are using the service now, access to Google Wave remains invite-only. ...
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• Google Wave Summary

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 140
  Our internal wave published at TechCrunch : Why Google Wave sucks , and why you will use it anyway ; http://j.mp/8vRVv7
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• What Is Google Wave

  
  Marketing A Home Business Online — Authority: 129
  Google has launched a new tool called Google Wave.This tool can be used for real-time communication and collaboration.A Google Wave can be a document (a map, photos, video, formatted text…) or just a conversation. Those who deal with online teaching or online marketing will find Google Wave very useful.Because a ...
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• Christmas has come early for you! (If you want a Google Wave invite for Christmas) (提前发送圣诞礼物啦！（如果你想要Google Wave邀请）)

  
  Oli's Shanghai Blog — Authority: 113
  I think I was the last person to get access to Google Wave, however now I have it I want to use up ALL of my invitations to other people before it become OPEN and everyone can use it! 我想我大概是最后一个得到Google ...
  1 day ago

• Google Wave invites

  
  Backup & Beyond | Vembu StoreGrid - Online Backup Software — Authority: 413
  . We’ve got 5 a sack-load of Google Wave invites to give away – to the first five people who ask for them in the comments below. Go ahead; add your name below. We’ll accomodate all we can. PS: invites will be emailed to the email ID associated with your profile.
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• More Google Wave Invitations Give Away

  
  CrazzyCool Tricks Hacks & Tweaks — Authority: 125
  I have got couple of more Google Wave invitations today. So I would like to share with you. It is quite simple as last time. We will not check whether you are lucky or not but are the first one to pick it up. I have around 5 extra invitations ( I mean nominations ). First five people who give out a valid email ...
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• Google Wave - The Worst of...

  
  Illinois Pedant — Authority: 137
  email, Twitter and IM rolled into one. Okay, thats a simplification.  Perhaps Im just getting too damn old for this stuff, but the more I look at Google Wave the more Im inclined not to use it.  Sure, there are some good things about it and some pretty neat functionality.  But too much of anything can be bad.  ...
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• Google Wave: Theory vs. Reality

  
  Daily Entertainment blog — Authority: 485
  I do have some invites available, if someone needs one.
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