Has Google started the Wave?

October 8, 2009 • 10:55 am • POSTED BY lhendler

Our friends at Google continue to impress us with user-friendly online tools. They have brought us countless online applications, including Google Maps, and the ever so popular Street Views which has influenced the way the world views, well the world, not to mention caught some pretty weird stuff.  Now, they are trying to start the Wave. This new tool will be launched in the coming months under the title Google Wave. An open-sourced online tool, Google continues to draw upon the collective minds of our generation to continue to elaborate upon an already pretty handy little gadget. Over Twitter already? Start a Twave.

The demo is a little lengthy so here is the abridged version.

Here is the pitch:
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.

Want to sign up? You will have wait for your invite. Will Google wave us into the future?