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”

• Restore, Read-only Features for Waves Coming Soon

  
  Technically Inspired — Authority: 135
  Google is asking users to make Google Wave productive for uses by not only editing their waves but also editing other’s content as well.Google Wave is generally more useful for recording notes and for other projects which involves others participation.Google asks users to edit others content for tidying the wave ...
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• Jayne Miller and Rob Lang actually scooped Marc Steiner on Dixon resignation?

  
  Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog — Authority: 494
  Apparently both Jayne Miller of WBAL TV and Rob Lang of WBAL AM beat Marc Steiner to the punch on the Sheila Dixon resignation story. David Zurawik originally gave Steiner the credit. Baltimore Brew has more (via DCRTV .) Zurawik also blogged about the “social media” aspect of the breaking story ...
  19 hours ago

• Underwhelmed by the Overwhelming Features of Google Wave

  
  Marketing Technology Blog — Authority: 116
  I’ve been using Google Wave now for a number of months. When I first heard about Wave, I thought it sounded like it might be interesting. I then watched the incredibly long video about the tool and was overwhelmed by the power and potential of what seemed to be a pending revolution in online communication. ...
  22 hours ago

• Using a public Wave to engage a news audience

  
  Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology — Authority: 468
  Today’s guest writer is Hilary Fosdal, who is the Interactive Content Manager for Barrington Broadcasting in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. You can read her blog at http://hilaryfosdal.com and follow her @hilaryfosdal . By Hilary Fosdal Many people are still trying to figure out what to do with Google Wave ...
  23 hours ago

• Listen to Competitors Rather than Customers - Google, IBM, Tribune, Cisco

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 117
  Leadership Listen To Competitors--Not Customers 01.06.10, 03:10 PM EST The accepted wisdom that the customer is king is all wrong. Thats the start to my latest Forbes column ( Read here .)  Think about it.  What would Apple be if it had listened to its customers?  An out of business niche PC ...
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• Google Wave Invite Contest: The Winners are…

  
  The iPhone Blog by Simon — Authority: 130
  Thanks for everyone who have joined the Google Wave Invite contest that was posted a week ago. As said, I would send out 5 Google Wave Invites to the winners. And, it turns out that I got two more invites in this week. So, I decide to send out these two invites as well. And, here are the winners: Jason Joseph Ian ...
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• Google: Five Initiatives to Watch in 2010

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 520
  Google had a heck of a 2009, kicking off with the launch of their authorized reseller program and wrapping up with the announcement that the City of Los Angeles was going to Google Apps . Last year also marked the launch of several new technologies under the Google banner, including Voice , Chrome — the ...
  2 days ago

• Boost Your Business in Hard Times

  
  Young Entrepreneur Blog - Small Business & Entrepreneurs Blog — Authority: 128
  When times are really hard, it seems that we spend an inordinate amount of time just worrying about the very survival of our company. Sometimes it seems as if we are afraid to breathe, unless another one of those “shoes” will drop. While the people who hold the purse strings may be watching the falling footwear ...
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• embed google apps documents in a wave

  
  jazzsequence.com — Authority: 126
  while the fact that google wave isn’t natively integrated with all things google already — something that still baffles me; this is the technology that’s going to take over the world, isn’t it? — this particular trick works brilliantly and cleverly disguises the fact that your document isn’t actually ...
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• Five Platforms for a Classroom Back-channel Chat

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 524
  Over the last month since I shared my positive experiences ( here and here ) of using a back-channel chat in my classroom, Ive received quite a few questions about services that can be used for hosting back-channel discussions. The following are five free platforms that can be used hosting a back-channel chat. ...
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• Teaching with Google wave

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 561
  Parry, M. (2010) How to teach with Google Wave Chronicle of Higher Education , January 4 An article about the use of Google Wave by Ray Schroeder at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He has used Google Wave to link classes between Springfield and Sligo Institute of Technology, Ireland. One interesting ...
  2 days ago

• Backing Blackblaze; siding with David against the giants

  
  Andrew R H Girdwood — Authority: 117
  As much as I like Bing and as much as I’m impressed with Google Wave I’m not giving them my vote in the 2009 Crunchies. Instead I’m going to support a backup company I’ve been running on my home laptop and travelling laptop, without bother, for over a year now: Backblaze . Not only do I find Backblaze ...
  3 days ago

• Vuuch, Social PLM and Google Wave Evaluation…

  
  Daily PLM Think Tank Blog — Authority: 124
  Last year I had chance to talk about social aspects of PLM with Chris Williams from Vuuch.com . Moving enterprise software into the “social” direction is a very interesting aspect. The main change I see in this approach is that element of people communication becomes a main driver force for system to be used. ...
  3 days ago

• Twitter For The Masses

  
  Netizen — Authority: 129
  Image via CrunchBase 2009 was Twitter s year, no doubt. But towards the end of 2009 Twitter s growth had plateaued. What could Twitter do to reach the masses and end up with hundreds of millions of people using the service? Simplify, simplify, simplify. Right now it is so easy to get lost in the service when ...
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• Twitter Killed, Long Live the Statusphere: Why the 10% Solution will Fail

  
  uber.la — Authority: 131
  There are apps and websites that do Twitter much better than Twitter. And a lot of the "improvements" the Twitter execs and designers try to make are rejected by the users. Just as Google cant OWN email, Twitter.com and Twitter the Company will not OWN the Statusphere. They will own Twitter.com and a proud trophy in ...
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• Google Chrome OS Could Become A New Target For Hackers In 2010

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  The start of the new year has brought some of the most exciting events that are slated to take place in the world of information & technology. One of them being the official launch of Google’s very own in-house designed and developed operating system, called Google Chrome OS. The new OS was announced way back in ...
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• Weekly Video: Waving Goodbye to 2009

  
  Mike McCready — Authority: 112
  As we’ve closed the year 2009, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back on the past year.  Whirled has created a video using Google Wave to take a look back on 2009.  I hope you enjoy this video, I did.
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• Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 32: Collaboration

  
  Writing Excuses — Authority: 106
  For starters, let’s clear the air. Yes, the first episode of the new year is also the last episode of Writing Excuses Season 3. And yes, we’ll be getting Season 2 and Season 3 on CDs pretty soon here. Collaboration! This is one of our all-time most requested topics, and we’re covering it now because we still ...
  4 days ago

• Signs You Might Be Working Twitter Too Hard: Or Not *Workin* It At All

  
  uber.la — Authority: 131
  So these days I think youve got to feel for the folks just getting into Twitter. When it was first released to the public in 2006 during SXSW Interactive, I didnt get it at all. The phrase "microblogging" still rings hollow to me. Twitter is NOT BLOGGING folks.But you can really tell when some one, [...]
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• UnGoogled: A Week of Discovering Alternatives For Google’s Services

  
  MakeUseOf — Authority: 685
  The other day, when I came to know about Google Dashboard , I thought I’d check out just how much of my life is in Google’s servers. I was shocked with what I saw. I was practically living my life with Google. And the revelation set my brain in motion – that maybe… just maybe, I’d become a Googaholic. I ...
  4 days ago

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