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Google Wave Now in Google Labs, No Need for Invites to Use It

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Six months after unveiling Google Wave in by-invitation-only beta, Google has finally put this service into Google Labs. This means that you don’t need to search or wait for invites anymore. You can just visit wave.google.com and start using this collaboration and communication tool.

According to Google, the latest version of Google Wave in Labs is faster, more stable and much more easier to use. Google has done many improvements to the service for the past six months. These include – email notifications when a wave has changed, easy navigation to unread parts of a wave, and a facility for removing participants which you’ve added by mistake.  In addition, Google has also added permission management options and an extensions gallery to Google Wave.

For Google Apps administrator, Google has also activated Wave. So, you can now easily enable it for all your users.

For developers, Google has also launched several improvements to the Wave APIs and has open-sourced additional components for building customized Wave services.

And in case you have no idea how to use Google Wave for your own collaboration and communication work, here are examples that you might want to emulate:

Business: Co-workers at companies large and small are using Wave, from writing software code at Lyn and Line and coordinating ad campaigns at Clear Channel Radio, to international project communications for Deloitte’s As One project.

Education: University students and professors worldwide have used waves within and beyond the classroom to collaborate on Latin poetry translations, write academic research papers and even build new functionality with Wave’s APIs. An ICT teacher also enjoyed having her 5th-graders do their class research in Wave.

Creative collaboration: From virtual art classes to writing the Complete Guide to Google Wave itself, waves make it easier for groups to review and critique multimedia content like images and videos. (We’ve heard that Wave is fun for gaming, too.)

Organizations and conferences: The Debatewise Global Youth panel explored climate change across 100 countries and waves at eComm (Emerging Communication Conference),LCA 2010 conference and HASTAC 2010 helped track speaking sessions. We are using waves in the same manner at today’s Google I/O conference.

Journalism: Mashable used Wave to interview journalists on the future of journalism, and The Seattle Times experimented with a public Wave to develop their Pulitzer Prize-winning news coverage.

Recapping 2009 in Tech Using Google Wave Video

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Hopefully by now most of you already have your Google Wave account. If not,  send me your Gmail account because I’ve got dozens of invites to give out. Anyway, this news is not about how to obtain a Google Wave invite but just a demonstration of how Google Wave can be used to expressed ideas in the form of video.

The guys at Whirlwind Interactive, who have been playing around with various Google Wave created videos unveiled their latest creation entitled “Waving Goodbye to 2009.”  The title alone is enough to make you want to watch this video from start to finish. In case you didn’t know, these guys are also responsible for the Samuel Jackson Google Wave demo video.

It’s a great way of looking back at the year that was in Tech. And also a great way of exploiting one of the many uses of Google Wave. Of course this is not the only way that you can use Google Wave. There are other features of Google Wave that you might want to explore or have probably explored if you have a Google Wave account already. After all Google Wave is an online collaboration tool, so online videos is not what it is only good at.

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Samuel L. Jackson Demonstrates Google Wave

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When Google introduced Google Wave in an eighty-minute presentation, many people were confused. When Google tried to explain Google Wave in eight minutes, many people were still confused. In fact, there’s a whole Web site listing things easier to understand than Wave.

If you’re one of those confused people, this fanmade Google Wave video will make the wonders of the service crystal clear. From chat to media to polls to games to playback, let Samuel L. Jackson show you how it’s done. Google Wave Cinema presents: Pulp Fiction.

Google Wave, one step closer to the Google OS? No way, it’s even no Beta.

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On the day that Skype announced a new version, completely with screen sharing cross platform-wide (although the new version was only released for Windows), the Big G went one step further and announced Google Wave.
Jens and Lars Rasmussen, creators of Google Maps, discovered that in our modern era online communication the A and O is but still leaves lots to be desired, so they started a new project based on actual restrictions:

  • Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication — email versus chat, or conversations versus documents?
  • Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum? How simple could we make it?
  • What if we tried designing a communications system that took advantage of computers’ current abilities, rather than imitating non-electronic forms?

After two years of development, Google Wave was born.

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What is Google Wave? Let’s not beat around the bush but face things as they _really_ are: Google Wave is the next big thing. It will cook your potatoes, boil your eggs, chop your trees and slice tomatoes for you. Google Wave will become the Rolls Royce of the internet. The whole world wide web and some more agree.

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