Meet Google Wave

Question: Which presentation at the Google I/O Conference 2009 in San Fransisco two weeks ago that was received with thunderous standing ovation?

Answer: Google Wave

The Age reports:

Dubbed Wave, it's the brainchild of Danish-born and now Sydney-based brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen. It targets email, the internet's dominant communications platform.

As any user will tell you, email has its downsides. There's spam: 90 per cent of email traffic is now classified as unsolicited junk mail. There are emails which just disappear into the ether. There are long threads of replied to and forwarded emails where it is impossibly difficult to work out who said what when.

Wave, say the Rasmussen brothers, is what email would be if it was invented today. It brings multiple communication tools including instant messaging, blogs, wikis and even Twitter under one roof and also combines file and document sharing.

Watch the 1 hr 20 min presentation video below, and be waved!