This is a guest post by Karthik who blogs regularly at http://www.outofthemold.com/

Email revolution started somewhere around 1960’s after which it took various forms like instant messaging, wiki’s, social bookmarking and so on. What next? Here comes Google Wave!!! Engineering and innovation do not have a full stop. And now we are a step ahead in communication engineering. Google Wave paves way to real time collaboration and communication.

A wave is equal parts of conversation, where people can communicate and work together on richly formatted text, videos, photos, maps and so on. I downloaded this video on Google Wave which is pretty long but was astonished at the innovation. It allows you easy email platform. The best thing that admired me a lot is this: When you chat with someone online, you need not wait till the text is entered nor get bored of seeing “X is typing”. You can see each and every character that is getting typed from the other end and so this allows you to easily understand what the other person is trying to intend.

And the attachments can be sent through a simple drag and drop. Again the other person who remains online can immediately view the thumbnail of the attachments during the dragging time itself. The best part of Google Wave is the collaborative writing. When you add members to the wave, any member can edit the document and the playback features allows you to view the entire changes to the document or work. What an idea!!!

Please watch the video on Google wave to know the protocols and other interesting features concealed in it. And the most important aspect is Google Wave is open sourced!!!

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

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