What did Google Wave co-founder Lars Rasmussen have to say about the Wave project?
This was the press release: Google encouraged software developers to ride into the future of email with a project called “Wave,” which opens inboxes to text, video, pictures, maps and even social network feeds. “Wave” expands the capabilities of email to let people communicate and work together in real-time with text, photos, videos, maps, and more, according to Google software engineering manager Lars Rasmussen. “In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it,” Rasmussen wrote in a blog post at the California Internet giant’s website. “Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. You see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave.” A “wave” prototype built by a five-person team “holed up in a conference room in the Sydney office” for months was previewed at a Google developers conference in San Francisco on Thursday. “After more than two years of expanding our idea
After months holed up in a conference room in the Sydney office, our five-person “startup” team emerged with a prototype. And now, after more than two years of expanding our ideas, our team, and technology, we’re very eager to return and see what the world might think. Today we’re giving developers an early preview of Google Wave. A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Here’s how it works: 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. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and
Wave is Google’s new collaboration and communications software that combines aspects of e-mail, instant messaging, document sharing, blogging and wikis in a single application. “A ‘wave’ is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more,” said Lars Rasmussen. Rasmussen wrote that e-mail mimics “snail mail” and IM is akin to phone calls. But those forms of communications don’t tie in well with wikis, blogs, collaborative documents and other newer forms of communication. The idea behind the new Google software is that users can create a “wave” and add people to it. Everyone on that wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets and feeds from other information sources on the Web, Rasmussen said. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. And a “playback” feature will let users rewind the wave and see how it evolved. Sources:
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