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The most frequent question I get about Google Wave is: "But what would I use it for?" Personally I can't wait to use it to take meeting minutes collaboratively and to co-write documents like blog posts and articles online with my editors and co-conspirators. Instead of using something like Campfire or IRC to chat with my fellow Lifehacker editors, I could see using Wave as group chat—but with inline and private replies, which are key.

Right now, like all collaboration tools, Wave is only as good as how many of the people you work (and play) with have it. Even though I was one of the developers touched by an angel, with access to the preview, I didn't actually use Wave very much because almost zero of my actual friends and co-workers were on it. So as far as I can see, uses for Wave in your life will open up as the product itself opens up to more users who care enough to wrap their heads around it and start putting valuable information in it.

If you're more of a moving-pictures learner, Google's new Wave overview video nicely illustrates some of the features I've highlighted above.

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Google confirms via Twitter that Google Wave invites are now going out!

There has been no shortage of buzz today around the release of Google Wave.  And people from Twitter to Ebay have been getting in the action.

Well it’s now official – Google Wave Product Manager Stephanie Hannon has just confirmed via her Twitter profile, around 8:50pm EST, that Google Wave invites are now being sent out!

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One of the more intriguing aspects of Google Wave – the much anticipated communication and collaboration platform that debuts later this month – is the fact that Waves can be embedded anywhere on the Web.

Waves, in case you’re not familiar, are essentially individual threaded conversations that take place within Google Wave. So, when we’re talking about an embeddable Wave, it means a conversation that can be placed on other websites, with the same functionality as it would have within Wave itself.

Since some developers already have access to Google Wave, we’re now able to show you what this functionality looks like – and how you may be seeing it in the future – via a WordPress plugin that has already been built for easily embedding Waves in blog posts.

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Google Wave for WordPress

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In the last three weeks, we've seen an amazing amount of activity in the Wave APIs community, with developers churning out new robots and gadgets by the dozens. Some developers have created waves listing their demos, other developers have posted in the forum, and others have created whole domains listing extensions. We wanted to make one central place for developers to share their work - and for people without Sandbox access to get a glimpse of their work - so we created the Wave Samples Gallery. The gallery is based off the code that powers the Youtube, GWT, and App Engine project galleries, but is customized for the Wave APIs.

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Like a bulletin board, a wave enables contributions. It’s hosted messaging that enables embedded commenting within the message and embedded threads. It’s like taking Wiki technology and putting it all into an email; but what is really impressive is that it’s a live hosted conversation..IE you don’t just see that a buddy is typing, NO, you see what he’s typing at the time he’s typing it (you can also turn this off). And that’s pretty cool when you have several people typing at the same time.

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Approximately 60 developers gathered at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California to learn, code, and demo various robots and gadgets developed with the Wave API. In relatively short order, 17 demos were ready to showcase at the end of the day. Pamela has a nice summary of some of the demos, and as she discusses in her blog post, Lars Rasmussen, one of the key figures behind Wave and leader of the Google Wave team, was excited by what he saw.

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Several of the Google engineers had stuff to show as well. David Byttow, lead on the Python Client library, showed off "Monty", an app that runs Python code and evaluates CALC macros. We suspect that this is just another of David's attempts to prove Python is the best language ever, but it was a great demo nonetheless. Alex North, a backend API engineer, showed off a bot based on the classic "Alice" AI. When Alex told Alice that "Google Wave is the shit", she responded, "But is it the only one?" Touché.

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We've had about a week to absorb the Google's pitch for Wave, its new experimental communication platform, and about a day to try the actual early "sandbox" build of the service. See our hands-on review. But there's more to talk about with Wave. It's not just an app, it's an important evolution in the philosophy of written communication.

People will see Wave in different ways. For some, it's a clever take on e-mail. Others will see it as instant messaging with new features. Developers will look at Wave's open specs and APIs, and see a framework for new collaborative apps. But is it really any of these things, or just a crazy experiment from Google's Australian outpost?

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If you want to try Wave, you'll have to wait. Google is making access to the service available to some developers and press, but full availability will not be until "later this year," Google says. The version we tested was very raw, still in development. Many features were not implemented and the system threw us a few errors. But the framework and philosophy is clear to see, and that's what this evaluation is based on.

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I believe there are six reasons why Wave is going to have a huge impact on you. However, this is all predicated on mass adoption of the technology. If no-one uses it, then obviously it won’t have a world-changing affect.

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One thing we immediately noticed is that it takes a little bit to get used to how Wave works. The first thing new users will probably notice is that Wave always shows you exactly what your contacts are typing in real-time (if you ever used the talk command in UNIX, you know what this feels like). Even when adding a map, you can see how somebody scroll around it to mark a spot, for example. After using it for a while, we have come to think as Wave as real-time email with a big dose of IM built-in, but even this only just describes a small part of what Wave can do.

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So I wrote a Google Wave Gadget API emulation layer. Just a tiny little bit of javascript to reimplement just barely enough of the gadget API to allow some of the demo gadgets to run side by side in two iframes. It's very rough around the edge, not very cleanly written, probably full of bugs, and only tested on Safari and Firefox, but here's an example:

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Google Wave is a browser-based app and a place where you can store all your personal content from conversations, emails, Twitter messages, research, pictures, videos and more. I believe it will revolutionize the way people connect, communicate, collaborate and share information with other people online.

Google Wave is an aggregation point. It aims to be the personal hub and combines all our instant messaging, all our emailing, Twittering and other ways we interact and communicate with our existing contacts together. Not only does it combine it all, it also adds a load of functionality on top of it.

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Google Wave, announced today at Google's I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system that will fundamentally change the way we think about electronic messaging. This is foreboding for at least five reasons. (Below, a wave in action.)

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The real question is whether there are really such significant gaps in the current state of Web-based communication that we need something new like Wave. With Google’s tendency to emphasize the consumer world first and the enterprise later, it’s also valid to ask if Wave will really have much impact on businesses. Interestingly, you might be surprised at some of the answers, so let’s take a look.

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In Wave, I see more than a new generation of email cum wikis cum Twitter cum groupware. Because it can feed blog and web pages and Twitter, I see a new way to create content, collaborative and live. I see a new way to make news.

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Our initial impression of Google Wave is a very positive one. Despite being an early build, communication is intuitive and not cluttered at all. User control is even more robust than we first expected. You can already customize the look and feel of your Wave, and don’t think it will be long until themes and draggable boxes are in as well. We also want to note that it works by far the best within the ChromeChrome reviewsChrome reviews browser, which makes sense.

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You’ve probably heard people talk about Google Wave being a game-changer, a disruptive product, or maybe even as an email killer. But while keywords and phrases like these grab people’s attention, they don’t explain why or how Google Wave could be a paradigm-shifter. In this article, we explore these questions by highlighting some of Google Wave’s most unique and promising features. By exploring these features, we can better understand the potential of this new technology.

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