"A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more." "A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when." "A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time." Watch the video to understand more about it: http://wave.google.com/about.html You could go here, create an account (or just log in if you already use gmail) and check it out yourself: http://wave.google.com
It seems a bit like a deluxe version of Yahoo chat, oriented more for group communications than simple 2-way communication. Did I basically get it right?
It is a real time interaction platform. You can even see what other person is typing. I think it is a good tool but I don't know why google is not giving this to public.
Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files.
From what I understand, Google wave is like an email conferencing. Where you can add other google wave contacts to join the conferencing via email.
Google Wave is online software application product from Google as personal communication and collaboration tool. It is web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol intended to merge e-mail, IM, wikis, and social networking.