Google Wave: Collaboration Reworked

摘要

Over the past several years, Internet users have become accustomed to Web 2.0 and cloud computing-style applications. It's commonplace and even intuitive to drag and drop gadgets on personalized start pages, to comment on a Facebook post without reloading the page, and to compose and save documents through a web browser. The web paradigm has completely shifted over the past 15 years; it's evolved into a multiauthored, participatory communication space.rnBut what about email? And instant messaging (IM)? Apart from some interface improvements (think Gmail), these tools have remained fundamentally the same over the same period of time. Now, thanks to developers at Google, email and IM may be in for some competition.