Newsletter of Computer Science Association, BITS Pilani
ISSUE 1 OCTOBER 9 2009 THE TEAM: Newsletter of Computer Science Association, BITS Pilani Anirudh Mangipudi Dharmik Kumar The news so far Google has announced a new open Joyneel Acharya source development platform called Google Wave, which will be available K.A.R. Shyam Sunder next year. Wave was created by Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the Australian Karthik Sriram brothers who developed Google Maps. This Web application Mihir Patil from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs Saurabh Khanna and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called Shivam Rai a "hosted conversation" or a "wave". Google demonstrated Wave at the Google I/O developer conference in Tanay Upadhyaya San Francisco, California, in May. Tech bloggers have largely cheered the release of the product. One of the questions which resounded from Umang Dhawan all their blogs is “What will Google Wave mean to SharePoint?” SharePoint can be used to host web sites that access shared work- spaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined appli- cations such as wikis and blogs. All users can manipulate proprietary WAVE POINTS controls called "web parts" or interact with pieces of content such as lists and document libraries. Users can chat about certain sections of Wave documents in real time, where all users Wave is early in its evolution, but there is some stiff competition for MS's see what a person is typing as much lauded business collaboration platform, SharePoint. However, de- it is typed. spite all the hype that is prevailing, Wave is not going to challenge Share- Point anytime soon.
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