{"id":881,"date":"2009-07-08T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2009-07-08T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:00:06","slug":"technology-google-on-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-google-on-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Google on Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has announced their vision of web Collaboration, and they’re calling it ‘Wave’.<\/p>\n

There’s similarities between Google wave and Microsoft SharePoint and Alfresco’s Share application, but there’s a lot that’s new or at least has been recrafted with a different twist. Google’s Lars Rasmussen described the idea as follows:<\/p>\n

“A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the Web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave.”<\/p>\n

Google Wave is designed as the “next generation”<\/a> of Internet communication. Instead of sending a message and its entire thread of previous messages or requiring all responses to be stored in each user’s inbox for context, objects known as “waves” contain a complete thread of multimedia messages (blips) and are located on a central server. Waves are shared and collaborators can be added or removed at any point during a wave’s existence.<\/p>\n

Some of the features that Wave will offer include:<\/p>\n