Google Wave

Google Wave was probably the most exciting product announcement from Google since Gmail. Take Twitter, Gmail, Instant Messenger, Flickr, and Google Docs. Pour them into a blender; stir in robots and open the whole thing up to developers to the mix and start blending. You might have something like Google Wave
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.
A few Google Wave features:
- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.
- Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.
- Applications and Extensions: Just like a facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own
apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.
- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations
within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a
developing conversation.
-Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.
-Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.
-Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar
words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.
-Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.