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Google Wave features

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Google Wave could transform the way we communicate by allowing friends to chat and share documents, photos, maps and links in real time, over the internet.
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1. Layout A Wave can be a live conversation and a document at the same time. Eleven people are taking part in this Wave. Their profile pictures are shown at the top of the screen and those who are looking at the Wave at the moment are indicated by a green dot. Underneath the pictures of the participants are the basic controls for the Wave. The Playback button is the key innovation. It allows the entire Wave to be played back edit by edit and is invaluable if a conversation has been complicated.
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2. Multi-person editing Everyone who is added to a Wave can edit it, add to it or reply to it at the same time. However, unlike a wiki, the edits are displayed in real time so you can watch people make changes. This can look a little confusing at first because the document alters in several places at once. When someone is editing the Wave, their name appears alongside their edits in a coloured box. Everyone gets their own colour. The Wave shown is being simultaneously edited by Dan, Gregory and Casey.
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3. Reply anywhere In an email or instant messenging, messages are displayed in a linear fashion. Google’s GMail was one of the first programs to present email as a conversation, but it was still limited by the way email works. A Wave is different because any part of it can be edited or even deleted if it’s incorrect or no longer relevant. People on the Wave can reply to any part of the message, even singling out an individual word. In the screenshot, left, Dan has replied in the middle of the first sentence to ask what Luna Park is.
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4. Adding media All kinds of media can be attached to a Wave and content from other websites can be pulled in, too. In this case, four photos have been added to the Wave. Everyone can see them and download them if they wish. Wave uploads thumbnails into the Wave first to keep the conversation moving and then uploads the full image in the background. A Wave can contain YouTube videos, messages from Twitter and even games that you can play without leaving the Wave. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/6021018/Google-Wave-f...