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Google on Wednesday will send out more than 100,000 invitations to developers to preview Google Wave, a new communications and collaboration tool that Google plans to release next year.
Similar to a bulletin board system, Google Wave lets users create shared, ongoing, real-time conversations called Waves. The application makes it easy for users to share videos, photos and maps.
Google Wave has useful features such as playback, which allows participants who jump into an ongoing conversation to read the previous conversation. All the participants in a wave can add more participants, but participants also can send private replies to each other.
Google Wave offers many features common in document authoring tools such as automatic spelling corrections, inline editing and change tracking.
Google Wave works with a variety of browsers, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Under development by Google's Sydney office for more than two years, Google Wave was previewed at the Google I/O Developer Conference in May. Google said then that Google Wave will be an open source product that features a new communications protocol.
Google said it will send the 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to developers, early users of Google Wave and customers of Google Apps.
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Sign UpBy Anonymous on September 30, 2009, 1:28 pmYou can sign up here: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/ I don't know how soon you'll get an invitation though.
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Umm... okayBy tnjman on September 30, 2009, 1:56 pmSo, it's a "chat room" - with ability to scroll up and down. Why should this impress? This has been available for YEARS - but I'm sure they put a "pretty face" on...
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Actually no it's not. Maybe you should take the time to actuallyBy Anonymous on September 30, 2009, 4:52 pmActually no it's not. Maybe you should take the time to actually watch some of the demonstration video footage before you actually start talking out the side of...
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WAVE invitesBy Anonymous on September 30, 2009, 6:42 pmThey will be buying / selling them online here, apparently, as soon as they become available: http://www.wave-invites.clickstuff.com/
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You'd think that with so many people obviously impressed you'd tBy Anonymous on October 1, 2009, 11:04 amYou'd think that with so many people obviously impressed you'd think, 'hey, this might be impressive' rather than, 'I guess the whole world except me is stupid'. Of...
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Google WaveBy Anonymous on October 1, 2009, 11:20 amI found a link to get a GWave ( Google Wave ) invitation : http://ul.to/ou2sjz Please Follow me and ReTwitt this link to get one... :)
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