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The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you’ll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that’s evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.

via The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave.

Need to Know Google Wave At its annual Google I O conference in late May Google unveiled Google Wave a forthcoming online service that will provide a personal communications and collaboration hub for users and an extensible platform for developers. Google s descriptions of Wave are both goofy and unhelpful–example: “Google Wave can make you more productive even when you re having fun”–and the service isn t available yet for testing. But Google Wave is an important new web platform and it presents a credible threat to Microsoft s online efforts. Here s what you need to know about Google Wave.

via Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Need to Know: Google Wave.

Industry experts have given a broadly positive reaction to Google Wave. Still in development Google Wave is a browser-based tool that mixes e-mail with Instant Messaging and real-time online collaboration elements. Harry McCracken of Technologizer.com wrote “It s one of the most ambitious services that Google or anyone else has cooked up”. Google Wave is currently only open to developers interested in building applications for the tool. Google Wave co-creator Lars Rasmussen wrote on the official Google blog: “A wave is equal parts conversation and document where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text photos videos maps and more. “In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text photos gadgets and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly.

via BBC NEWS | Technology | Strong reception for Google Wave.

It’s been interesting watching the reaction of bloggers and main stream media pick up on the “Google Wave”, Since the news broke on twitter last week.

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How could you build a business with the newly announced Google Wave?

Wave is like email mixed with collaborative editing and instant messaging. It’s conceivable that the Google Wave paradigm will replace today’s group collaboration tools with something less fractured (everything’s in one place), universal (document equals IM equals email) and more centralized (one application instead of many). Heck, it could even replace email itself.

via Business Opportunities around Google Wave.