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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.

6 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Re:first by GreyLurk · · Score: 5, Informative

    From my reading, they're requiring TLS on the XMPP stream, which pretty well covers encryption.

  2. Re:Public warning by Blice · · Score: 4, Informative

    The first "client" is actually a web app. A pretty one, at that.

    Screenshot here~

  3. Re:first by sam.thorogood · · Score: 5, Informative

    TLS sounds about right. The protocol also provides a verification protocol (see http://waveprotocol.org/), so actions performed by any participant in a hosted conversation can always be verified by other participants in that hosted conversation, regardless of their provider. What this means for you: encryption (TLS), and your contributions can't be tampered with.

  4. Re:Firefly by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here: http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/CortexLexicon

    Scroll down to "wave".

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  5. Re:Windows Only? by Zarel · · Score: 4, Informative

    They always release their software for Windows first. Will this be the same? I wonder...

    Considering Wave is an online service, it would be pretty difficult for them to make it Windows-only. None of Google's other Web pages are Windows-only.

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  6. Re:html 5 and encryption? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seriously mods this was sarcastic, not informative ...