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The Rasmussens (the brothers who came up with Google Maps) have now given shape to what may be the next biggest revolution (no, really!) in Internet communication & collaboration. Enter Google Wave. Codenamed “Walkabout”, Wave is a whole new way of looking at communicating with people – it is a mix of Facebook, LinkedIn, orkut and Twitter.

Wave can be pictured as a mashup of rich text, pictures, videos and similar varied content. Now think of putting all this in a chat room where you’ve invited all your friends or associates; all of you could share information of that sort with one another. Also, Wave adds real-time tracking, or better, ‘live’ conversations that lets others see what you are typing as you are actually typing it! Neat!

And then there’s the Google Wave API for developers which provides a framework for extending the capabilities (rather, the possibilities!) of Wave. There is no fixed roadmap for the project, though you can expect it to be out by the end of this year . You could sign up for updates on Wave here. This might just mark the demise of IMs

Check out the hour-long Wave keynote presentation at this year’s Google I/O below!

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