In the panel about new media, Rob Quigley, Dave Doolittle and Elise Hu talked about new trends in the new media.
Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google on May 27, 2009.]It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.
Here are some of the Wave's innovative features:
Real-time: you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.
Placement: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.
Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application , developers can build
their own apps within waves.
Wiki functionality:Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else,
because all conversations within the platform are shared.
Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source ,to foster innovation among developers.
Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.
Natural language: Google Wave can auto-correct your spelling, even going
as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.”
It can also auto-translate on-the-fly to more than forty different languages.
Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave
and everyone will have access.
The only way to start using the Wave is by invitation. As of October, 2009, Google Wave is still in active development and is expected to remain in development until later in 2009.It was launched to about 100,000 users on]September 30, 2009. Google Wave invitation can be requested by filing up a form at https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/
Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google on May 27, 2009.]It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.
Here are some of the Wave's innovative features:
Real-time: you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.
Placement: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.
Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application , developers can build
their own apps within waves.
Wiki functionality:Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else,
because all conversations within the platform are shared.
Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source ,to foster innovation among developers.
Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.
Natural language: Google Wave can auto-correct your spelling, even going
as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.”
It can also auto-translate on-the-fly to more than forty different languages.
Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave
and everyone will have access.
The only way to start using the Wave is by invitation. As of October, 2009, Google Wave is still in active development and is expected to remain in development until later in 2009.It was launched to about 100,000 users on]September 30, 2009. Google Wave invitation can be requested by filing up a form at https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/
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