Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Google invites users to one hundred miles to test Wave


So far booked about 600 happy few, Google opened its future Swiss Army Communications 100 000 privileged testers. Do not expect to win as many invitations to go to Wave. The Internet giant has already distributed.They go to webmasters who attended the developer preview, the first user who registered online to give their feedback on the service and a handful of customers of Google Apps. "Some are wondering what is called a preview.It just means that Google Wave is not ready to be launched in prime time. Not yet, anyway.New features coming Presented as a communication tool all-in-One, Wave can talk live or delayed and share documents from any internet browser. Everyone can see live changes the other makes on the photos, text or Internet services like Google Earth.Since May 2009 when we unveiled the project, we are exclusively focused on adaptability, stability, speed and ease of use of the service ", explained in a note common Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon, respectively engineer and product manager at Google."There are still key features that we have not implemented.Similarly, it is possible to play a chess game with a remote partner and review the game in its entirety since Wave. Developed in open source, Wave works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome.The launch of Google Wave public version is expected in the first half of 2010. In the meantime, here's a little demonstration presented by Google in May last.For example, you can not remove a participant from Wave or group of users, a "remove" is missing, and it is not always possible to configure permissions to allow or not a user, Google announced on Blog's home, while ensuring that these functions will be available in the coming months.