Google Wave: A Terrific New Google Product

Google is working on a new product called Google Wave. It will be released as open source and will be open to developers to collaborate and a develop new applications and gadgets, which will likely make it quite popular. It is currently in testing.

It is a amazing collaboration tool indeed where users will share a screen (ro what they want to share) through a browser; they can type and everyone sees each character being typed, they can image, videos, applications. It integrates with all the social apps you can think of (e.g, messages are posted automatically to Twitter or Blogger - bidirectionally). It will be compatible with 3rd party applications, and it works on any browser (IE, Firefox, Safari).

For teams that need to work together in distributed locations, it will be a terrific tool.

It is also a terrific product for traders working together. Add free multiway voice and it's a killer app.



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