That New Wave

This past weekend Ty was babbling about some new technology by Google, Google Wave. He tried to explain how sweet it was, but it wasn't coming out as an unbelievable innovation to me. Because of my faith in my boy Ty, and of course Google, I was stilled intrigued. I searched for it and found myself watching the entire creators' demonstration at wave.google.com (run time, 1:20:12).

This thing is really gonna be the new wave in so many aspects of the technological world. Just in this semi-brief demonstration you can see all of the capabilities wave has. The wave has the capability to wipe out any normal uses of e-mail and instant messaging, while giving new life to blogging and twitter.

Some of My Favorites (with so much more I'm forgetting)
--In a message you receive, you can split it so that you can respond to different parts of the message individually.
--Add a person to a developed convo and they will see all the different places each person talked. Playback capabilities allow the third person to see in what order each comment was said.
--If any or all parties in a convo are online, you see all keystrokes in real time, as typing is updated immediately (this can be disabled if you don't want someone to see all your mistakes).
--Their new spellchecker changes words that are correct but don't fit a particular sentence. Example- 'I have bean to France.' would automatically change 'bean' to 'been'.
--Drag pictures from your computer directly into the wave and enters them into the convo as thumbnails.
--Using the edit tool, a paper or document can be edited by two or three individuals in a collaborative, real-time style.
----Highlights come back to you in yellow and red marks to show you what's been changed in your message.
----Enter the wave late and you can use playback to see how the document started and who made what changes to it.
--Add robots to the wave, such as Bloggy, to ship the wave directly to your blog. If someone comments on the blog post it is automatically added to the wave and vice versa.
----Another robot, Rosie, uses a real-time translator to have a convo with someone who speaks another language.

Creators' Demonstration


Sites
wave.google.com
code.google.com/apis/wave
www.waveprotocol.org