Google has announced a new product that is supposed to reinvent email.
The main product combines GMail, including its chat feature, and Google Doc’s real-time collaboration. Each “wave” is like a whiteboard that involves a number of people. Multiple people can edit it at once anywhere in the wave. Photos and other media can also be added into the wave. In addition, Wave will be open-source and APIs will be released, allowing plugins to be included in waves or waves to be included in web pages.
It’s impossible to know if Wave will take off and replace email or die off like so many other Google projects, but it’s good to see someone taking a second look at something so ordinary and everyday.
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surely should make gmail more interesting