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Google's "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software

Posted by timothy on from the you-may-be-thinking-of-shimmer-floor-polish dept.

superglaze writes "Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system. Anyone will be able to create a 'wave,' which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space. Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client." Jamie points out this more informative link.

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  1. Public warning by suffix+tree+monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

    (Reply by Google: What are you going to do, quit gmail? Ouch! )

    1. Re:Public warning by EraserMouseMan · · Score: 4, Funny

      It will be in beta for 5 years. So you have no grounds to complain about anything for a long long time.

    2. Re:Public warning by Jurily · · Score: 2, Funny

      Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

      (Reply by Google: We know where you live. )

      Fixed that for you.

    3. Re:Public warning by monkeyboythom · · Score: 5, Funny

      Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

      (Reply by Google: We know what porn you look at. )

      There. Really fixed.

    4. Re:Public warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

      (Reply by Google: We know where you live, what porn you look at, when you look at it, and the phone numbers of your neighbors. )

      Fixed again. Good thing they're not evil!

      Aside: My captcha was "Brothel".

  2. Gmail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Barely out of beta, and now it's obsolete.

  3. Ugh by sexconker · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like email and twitter and instant messaging and facebook all in one.

    Disgusting.

    1. Re:Ugh by Whalou · · Score: 5, Funny

      My real life is still in BETA.

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      English is not this .sig mother tongue...
    2. Re:Ugh by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Get this "real life" you speak of to run on a TCP/IP transport layer and I'm sold!

  4. Re:Windows Only? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since Google's stock price peaked at $700 (give or take) and is currently $400 (give or take), they're a boring company now. Make sense for them to release software on boring Windows rather than cool Mac. :P

  5. Firefly by endianx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can not believe this was tagged Firefly so quickly. I am truly among my peers here on Slashdot.

  6. html 5 and encryption? by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Note that this app uses (or going to use) HTML 5. Not sure if it already contains a tag for encryption.

    1. Re:html 5 and encryption? by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 5, Funny

      yeah, with HTML5, encryption is easy. You just surround any content you want encrypted with <secure>credit card number goes here</secure> and the magic of HTML does the rest!

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      -- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
  7. Google is also... by proc_tarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google is also introducing the new service "Particle" which will be the same service with different properties.

  8. Re:Perfect... by CODiNE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pride 'N Prejudice RPGs? I wanna be Mr. Collins he had his choice of babes.

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    Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
  9. Hotline all over again by plurgid · · Score: 5, Funny

    countdown to this being used for warez and porn ... 3 ... 2 ... 1

  10. Re:Windows Only? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mods have no sense of humor whatsoever today. Maybe they're Google shareholders. :P

  11. Re:Perfect... by GypC · · Score: 3, Funny

    Roll a saving throw vs. Obsequiousness.

  12. Re:Physics humor :) by Timbotronic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Traffic Cop: Mr Heisenberg, do you have any idea how fast you were driving?
    Heisenberg: No, but I know exactly where I am

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    One of these days I'm moving to Theory - everything works there

  13. Re:Perfect... by QuantumFTL · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know it sounds funny, but I have a friend who has been working on a homebrew system for Jane Austin PnP RPGs. Narrativist RPGs actually lend themselves rather well to this kind of thing, especially if the emphasis is on storytelling and social maneuvering, instead of THAC0.