Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google Wave Now Open To All

Posted by timothy on from the and-do-you-care dept.

tonyfugere writes "After a year of testing by invitation only, Google Wave has been opened to the public. From what I have seen, it looks like it could be beneficial for documenting brainstorming sessions beyond simple instant messaging protocols." (Google Wave is "also great for entertaining the masses," says tonyfugere, who links to the slightly NSFW demonstration below.)

2 of 180 comments (clear)

  1. big deal by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    google just open sourced vp8. That means we can stop eating the ogg theora shit sandwich and start using a codec that doesn't suck ass.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  2. Re:The link you actually care about by MrHanky · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, this is the link you're looking for. Wave is old (relatively), and people found out they couldn't use it for anything. WebM is a "new" container format for streaming internet video (apparently a subset of Matroska) to be used with Google's recently open-sourced VP8 and Vorbis.

    I have no idea why Slashdot decided to run with the Wave news before that.