An Introduction to Google Wave

Google Wave was born out of the notion that while email and instant messaging work well, they were both created a long time ago. As the lead developer puts it - “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.” Indeed it is.

Nearly everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web these days, but imagine if you could tie those together with a wiki - and then add real-time playback functionality, on-the-fly language translation and drag-and-drop file sharing. Google Wave does all this and a lot more.

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