Google wave

Even though I’m on vacation, things with the potential to completely transform the way we teach and learn come along so rarely I had to share. It’s called Google Wave.

Google Wave is a new communication service previewed today at Google I/O. "A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web,You can see some screenshots of the service and find some details about the API that could be used to extend the service and the Wave protocol that allows anyone to run a "wave" server. Google promises that Google Wave will be available later this year.

Does Google Wave mean the death of Gmail and Google Docs?

Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra said, “There may be other places as well where you may see those exact capabilities.” In other words, this may be less about phasing out Gmail, and more about phasing Wave-type abilities into Gmail and Google Docs. In the long-term, however, while I may not get rid of my Gmail account, I could imagine Wave becoming the center of all my online activity, the way Gmail is now.