Google Wave – Presentation of A Personal Communication and Collaboration Tool
A Personal Communication and Collaboration Tool is about to be released later this year by Google. It will be a real time communication platform which combines much of the existing communication applications such as email, wikis, chat, social networks and project management into a browser based client.
If you head to Google’s Wave site you will be introduced to a few terms used in Google Wave, such as Wave, Wavelet and Blip, just to name a few. Once this tool hits the web you probably will get used to it anyway. But for now it would be just a new set of terms used in a new tool.
A Wave is the term for a conversation much like a threaded discussion in a forum or in email messages. A Wavelet is a subset of a conversation. It is contained in a wave. As for Blip, it is a single and individual message within the wavelet or wave, much like a chat bubble in an instant messaging tool.
So what’s this thing about this Wave buzz? Well, to get a basic idea what this tool is about, check out some of the innovative and interresting features in Google Wave: Read more…