Google releases Google Wave demonstration video

For those who are having a little trouble understanding exactly what Google Wave is all about, seeing it in action might help you wrap your head around the concept.

Google has released video of Thursday's keynote speech at Google I/O in San Francisco, where the company publicly demonstrated Google Wave for the first time before about 4,000 developers. Google Wave is an ambitious, if incomplete, attempt to reinvent e-mail and Internet communication in general.

Developers are just starting to get their hands on Google Wave to try it out for themselves, but the public is not expected to get the same chance for several months. We hope to post a hands-on review ourselves in the coming days, but for now, check out the video if you'd like to see Google Wave in action. Be forewarned, it's long (90 minutes).

[MadLyb]

Wow, email with all the annoyances of IM. The AD Look at me crowd will love this.

[haikaladli]

Google is always making innovations. Moreover ChromeOS will be present at the end of the year ...

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[BlitzBoy1120]

The style kinda reminds me of Facebook, commenting and stuff.

[curious_trout]

If I hear the word "excited" and "delighted" one more time, my head will explode. There should be a limit on how many times those words are allowed to appear in a speech. Why can't I deduce how "excited" the speaker is for myself? (As if I cared.) I've seen people be genuinely excited without them reassuring me every few seconds that this was the case. Why don't they just hook this guy up to some device that would show on a scale of 1 to 10 how excited he is at any moment in time, then stream the results over the Internet for all to see? Aside from all this, I'm a big Google fan and love most of their tools with few reservations. You could say that I'm... titillated by their technology.

[einarabelc5]

He must really miss his mom.

[traxx09]

His tone belies his words. He says he's excited but he doesn't sound like it. Is he the Android they keep talking about?

[yoyoyo3]

This is a pretty cool idea. I love the idea of combining email with IM, like an all in one application and the way they inserted pictures to share sure beats hitting the attach button, then the browse button, and then the send button for each picture.

[stockyjoe]

Pretty neat, but honestly all I see is an app using an IM client with some neat collaboration features.

[sarah_oneill]

This at least promises to change how people think, or maybe their expectations of what real-time can actually do. THat is exciting in and of itself, whether or not we drop our email and pick up wave instead, which I think is highly unlikely. A cool article <a href="http://www.atelier-us.com/non-classe/article/google-wave-re-thinks-real-time">here</a>.

[drgrigg]

I love it! I think it has huge possibilities.

But PLEASE, PLEASE, Google, think about adding some friction or trivial cost into this new system so that it won't be spammer heaven (yet again).

[guytaur1]

This is cool. It is Email and IM in one place. Plus some more. An interesting point is that the design team behind this Wave is the primarily the same team that brought us google maps. My source http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/look-out-outlook-googles-wave-is-coming/2009/05/29/1243456712775.html
One thing I do see from all the descriptions. Proper Broadband is needed for this to work. Dial up will just not cut it. Especially the video conferencing concept.

[PaulMpanga]

yahoo already does this, this reminds me of apple claiming to introduce technology that is already there.

[conorsmurf]

they have invented what people have wanted for years. a way to link all your different social networking sites if wave could be implemented as a standard... am i the only one who thinks this/ imbedded into all the social networking sites would be revolutionary big ****.

[mixerman3d]

this is very cool, the great part about it is only people that are added are the ones contributing live, if there was a bot spamming it could be dealt with swiftly and websites could still use forms of protection like capcha. Perhaps a system that can tell when something is not human as it is sending information live. bots would be very fast and use the same phrase over and over. seems like the wave system could have a built in detection for bot like actions and would require specific authorization to be allowed to add and edit content