This Just Blew My Mind! Wave.

[keith - SuPeR K!]

This will effectively replace email, instant messaging, blogging, photo galleries, wikis, and pretty much any other kind of electronic communication.

Google Wave

[BarTopDancer]

I tried to watch it but I got bored.

[CoasterMatt]

Meh.

[keith - SuPeR K!]

Meh now... This is going to take over the web.

[keith - SuPeR K!]

A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Here's how it works: In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.

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[CoasterMatt]

Sounds like vBulletin- The ADHD edition.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Sounds like vBulletin- The ADHD edition.

Perfect!

[keith - SuPeR K!]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Sounds like vBulletin- The ADHD edition.

vBulletin isn't happening in real-time though; it really isn't much like Wave at all... Everything on Wave appears as it is happening without any page refreshes... The wiki aspects of it make it great for creating a document quickly and collaboratively. Multiple people can edit at the same time and they will all see each others edits happening as they happen. When someone is typing you can see what they are typing (this can be disabled by a simple checkbox next to the input area), and in cases where you are IMing it can speed up the conversation because you don't have to wait to see their whole thought before you can start replying. Also, using add-ons you can enable things like real-time context spell checking ("Icland is an icland" gets corrected to "Iceland is and island", "I like been soup" gets corrected to "I like bean soup"), real-time inline translation (if you speak a different language it shows your language below what is being typed), and tons of other crazy cutting edge stuff. You can drag and drop photos right into the Wave from your desktop... No upload form. No direct connection to your buddy. The best part is if you jump into a convo late or a bunch of stuff has happened since your last view of it, you can use playback to walk through the convo and see it unfold, addition by addition and edit by edit. It's really quite amazing...

[Jazzman]

I agree; Meh...

[€uroMeinke]

I'm intrigued - seems like an easy to use wiki to me, which would be appreciated. I think people will have to play with this format a bit to see the true power - does it really replace all those other services, or will it be just another overlay? If you create them for various purposes is it easy to manage a number of "waves?" I'll be curious to see how it all plays out - and if there's an iphone version