Google Wave is an online message tool for real-time communication and teamwork.

A wave can be both a discussion and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps. Wave builds on the concept of cloud computing.

Google wave is going to become a wave of the future. It is a next generation web-based communication and collaboration tool.

Google wave can merges service e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking together at one single platform.

Common terms which are used in Wave are Wavelet, Blip, Document, Extension, Gadgets, Robots

Key features of Wave:

• Real-Time information

• Live transmission of any type

• Used as faster conversation

• Wave is used as new way of creating dialogue among group of users

• Google Wave contains gadgets and tools

• In Google wave there are gadgets like Wikify which can brings Wikipedia to your Google Wave account.

• It include tools for checking spelling and grammar

• It has a great futures like translating between 40 different languages by using Rosy Extension.

• It has TWav