Google's "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software

superglaze writes "Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system. Anyone will be able to create a 'wave,' which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space. Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client." Jamie points out this more informative link.

Public warning

[suffix tree monkey]

Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

(Reply by Google: What are you going to do, quit gmail? Ouch! )

Gmail

[Anonymous Coward]

Barely out of beta [slashdot.org], and now it's obsolete.

Re:Public warning

[EraserMouseMan]

It will be in beta for 5 years. So you have no grounds to complain about anything for a long long time.

Ugh

[sexconker]

It's like email and twitter and instant messaging and facebook all in one.

Disgusting.

Re:Windows Only?

[__aaclcg7560]

Since Google's stock price peaked at $700 (give or take) and is currently $400 (give or take), they're a boring company now. Make sense for them to release software on boring Windows rather than cool Mac. :P

Firefly

[endianx]

I can not believe this was tagged Firefly so quickly. I am truly among my peers here on Slashdot.

html 5 and encryption?

[E IS mC(Square)]

Note that this app uses (or going to use) HTML 5. Not sure if it already contains a tag for encryption.

Re:Ugh

[Whalou]

My real life is still in BETA.

Re:Ugh

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Get this "real life" you speak of to run on a TCP/IP transport layer and I'm sold!

Google is also...

[proc_tarry]

Google is also introducing the new service "Particle" which will be the same service with different properties.

Re:Public warning

[Jurily]

Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

(Reply by Google: We know where you live. )

Fixed that for you.

Re:Perfect...

[CODiNE]

Pride 'N Prejudice RPGs? I wanna be Mr. Collins he had his choice of babes.

Hotline all over again

[plurgid]

countdown to this being used for warez and porn ... 3 ... 2 ... 1

Re:Public warning

[monkeyboythom]

Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

(Reply by Google: We know what porn you look at. )

There. Really fixed.

Re:Windows Only?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mods have no sense of humor whatsoever today. Maybe they're Google shareholders. :P

Re:Perfect...

[GypC]

Roll a saving throw vs. Obsequiousness.

Re:html 5 and encryption?

[Lord Bitman]

yeah, with HTML5, encryption is easy. You just surround any content you want encrypted with <secure>credit card number goes here</secure> and the magic of HTML does the rest!

Re:Physics humor :)

[Timbotronic]

Traffic Cop: Mr Heisenberg, do you have any idea how fast you were driving?
Heisenberg: No, but I know exactly where I am

Re:Public warning

[Anonymous Coward]

Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

(Reply by Google: We know where you live, what porn you look at, when you look at it, and the phone numbers of your neighbors. )

Fixed again. Good thing they're not evil!

Aside: My captcha was "Brothel".

Re:Perfect...

[QuantumFTL]

I know it sounds funny, but I have a friend who has been working on a homebrew system for Jane Austin PnP RPGs. Narrativist RPGs actually lend themselves rather well to this kind of thing, especially if the emphasis is on storytelling and social maneuvering, instead of THAC0.