Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web. It is an open source project yet to be launched to public use.
Features of Google Wave:
- Can communicate and work together with rich text, photos, videos, maps and etc.
- It differs from the standard email communication in many ways
- Any participant can reply anywhere in the messages, edit, add content and add new participants too
- New participants can playback to see the earlier conversation
- Instant messages are transmitted character by character, so we don't have to wait until some one finish typing and hit enter
- Live transmission of data makes a real-time interaction
- Easy drag n drop to attachment
- Server-based spelling suggestion
- A large number of participants can edit a single document real-time and each can be seen separately
- Support many other gadget extensions
- And a lot more
The list about contains only a few features which came to my mind. A very nice demo can be seen at:
The official blog:
