Google Wave co-creator Lars Rasmussen is also one of the people behind the development of Google Maps.  He wrote on the official Google blog: ‘A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

‘In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web.  ‘They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly.’

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