Google Wave: What it is and how it works

Google's new platform consolidates various communications and social-networking technologies into a single Web application.

Google used its annual I/O conference to announce its new Wave communications platform. Built by the same team of Australian Google engineers who created Google Maps, the latest Web application from the search giant allows you to combine e-mail, instant messaging, photo management and social-networking technologies into a single tool.

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