"A team of Google engineers from Australia has unveiled a prototype replacement for standard email that abandons the reliance on the chronological sorting and stacking of messages which has been the hallmark of one of the internet's first and still most popular applications. Christened Google Wave, the new feature was given its first public viewing in San Francisco earlier this morning Australian time at Google's annual developers' conference...
Wave - which began life as a project codenamed Walkabout - is a combination of email and instant messaging and document-, maps- image- and video-sharing all housed under one roof..."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/...456712775.html
"A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/...ogle-wave.html