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Google Wave: New details

Tuesday, November 10, 2009


Held on 10 November in Moscow conference were announced time frames starting platform Google Wave, combining a social network, tools, simultaneous access to documents, instant messaging and much more.

Now Wave is being semi-open beta testing (by invitation). From the words of Lars Rasmussen, one of the developers, and Stephanie Hannon, manager of the projects Google Wave, for 5 weeks invitations received about a million people, and hundreds of thousands of active use of the project. In early 2010 Google Wave will be able to support millions of visitors, and in the second half of 2010 will be open to all comers.

The interest of the public called the story of the protocols Google Wave. Support for these protocols, third-party developers will allow users of different social networks to communicate with each other and work together on documents. Already, it became known that some products Novell will support Google Wave.

Were voiced and some technical details about building Google Wave. Three main mechanisms that extend the functional Wave - a gadget (part of the client), robots (working on to Google) and Embedding (similar to Google Maps). Anyone will be able to create your own application for Wave and share them with friends. It is also possible that the developers can sell applications through the marketplace, just as was done for Android.

And last in importance, but not least - the announcement of the compatibility of various Web services Google. Today, Lars Rasmussen, officially confirmed that the API will integrate documents Google Wave, Docs, calendar entries, Mail-services. In practice, this means the ability to manage virtually all the data that the user keeps on Google, through a single interface.

In the near future we will present an overview of the beta version of Google Wave and has already implemented functional. Stay tuned!

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