Google Wave

Topic: Google Wave|Level: Beginner|Type: Informational

http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html

Watch for this thing!
Google's answer to "What would email be if it were invented today?"

Simple communication object called a Wave
- Email style conversations
- Instant message style conversations
- Share photos & rich media
- Interact with Blog sites / wiki like sites / any interactive content system
- Collaboratively edit documents
- Rich APIs for interactive content such as games
- Integration with other system APIs (i.e. Twitter)
- APIs to integrate to existing workflow systems

Some of the already created "Robots" in it...
- Context based Spell Check - It recommends or corrects spelling based on the context of the sentence, not purely comparing what you type to list of dictionary words (i.e. it automatically would correct "I want been soup" to "I want bean soup")
- Media Sharing - Photos dropped in the wave conversation are instantly shows to all participants and those people even see thumbnail images before the entire photo is finished uploading
- "Bloggy" automatically posts and persists the wave in a Blog and anybody interacting in the wave conversation in the blog will have their contributions instantly show up in the original participants wave client
- "Rosy" - 40 language real-time translation! You type in your language, your other participants in the wave conversation sees what you type instantly translated to their language.
- "Tweety" Puts your Twitter messages & tweets right inside a Wave and allows you to post tweats and replies from the wave & search tweats for a particular subject and get continual search updates to the list