Coming: Google Wave

by on September 30, 2009 · 3 comments

I noticed on Twitter that Google Wave was a trending topic, so I went looking to see what the hell it is. Many of you already know, I’m sure, but for those of you who don’t: It’s a hosted/’cloud’ communications platform that could supplant email, IM, chatrooms, wikis, word processors, and a few other things. Might be good for simple games too.

This video of a preview presentation to developers is long, but it takes you through a lot of the features. No idea whether Google Wave will take off, but it looks pretty neat. I’ll look forward to learning about privacy tools and portability of data.

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Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.

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    This is great news. Best of luck for the future and keep up the good work.

  • caroljns8

    In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it.
    Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos,
    gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web.
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  • caroljns8

    In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it.
    Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos,
    gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web.
    Mio Navman Spirit S300

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