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Hi,

Google has unveiled “Google Wave”.

Google Wave is in designing state and it was a developer preview.
It is expected to be launched by the end of this month.

Google wave is another product by the creator of Google Map.

It is a html5 Application. It is the combination of gmail and google docs.


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Several useful threads of thought have appeared here. brought the item to attention, expressed the natural curiosity many have, and raised the key adoption questions: how simultaneous editing affects structured work and what client/mobile support will emerge.

A concise technical sketch helps explain the tradeoffs. The platform’s concurrency engine (an operational-transform style approach) enables live, character‑level collaboration and a “playback” of how a document evolved. It also supports small embedded apps and automated participants (gadgets and robots) that can push notifications, transform content, or sync with external systems. Those capabilities make rapid collaboration powerful, but also make governance, auditing, and exportability important early considerations.

Practical checklist for teams evaluating it now:

  1. Run a short pilot with a small cross-functional group and three real workflows (meeting notes, brainstorming, one approval process).
  2. Observe user behavior: where simultaneous edits help and where they create confusion; capture examples for rules.
  3. Build a simple robot/gadget to automate one pain point (digest, ticket creation, or notification) to validate the API and security model.
  4. Define a retention/export plan: how final artifacts will be archived, how access is controlled, and how changes are audited.

Final cautions: treat this as an experimental layer over existing processes rather than a drop‑in replacement. Expect interface and client gaps early on (mobile and offline are common weak spots). For business use, formalize edit/ownership rules and automated archiving before broad rollout — that addresses the collaboration worries voiced while letting teams explore the new interaction patterns mentioned by .

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Member Avatar for bethennyengland

Sounds like a great concept/idea. I'm going to check this out and read the article you have shared. Thank you; it really sounds interesting.

Member Avatar for MktgRob

I just checked out the official Google Wave page and I have two thought right off the bat. First, as it looks like multiple people can all be on the same conversation adding content at will at any point in the message this will need some heavy refining if google is hoping to have any part of the business community adopt it (beyond a tool for remote collaboration by programmers who will probably adopt this quickly because of the open source nature of the product). Second, and probably the more important point, is that if this is heavily adopted in a short period of time and because Google plans on giving anyone and everyone the ability to develop apps and widgets at will, how soon will it be before we see apps for any of the various mobile devices and phones.

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