On May 28, Google unveiled their newest product, called Wave. I just finished watching the nearly 1 1/2 hour demo video from the Google IO event, and was impressed. Google has rolled email, instant messaging and online collaboration of documents into one nice package. This brief description doesn’t give Wave justice, so following is a little bit more information.
A more detailed, but simple description can be found on the About Page for Wave. This page has several screenshots to give you an idea of the capabilities of Wave.
The cool thing about Wave is that Google is open-sourcing most of the code. They weren’t clear on what code would be kept closed, but the idea is that there is enough open source code for a developer to be able to roll out their own Wave platform.
APIs are being implemented as well so that developers can expand the capabilities as far as the imagination can go. Developers can build extensions for Wave itself, or embed waves in their own web pages.
If you have time to watch the following 80 minute video, I encourage it. If not, take a read of this article over at Mashable by Ben Parr. It goes into detail explaining the different key areas of Wave so that everything makes sense and you can get a good idea of the potential it offers.
