Gallery: Google Wave in action

Need to draw on a virtual whiteboard? Real-time collaboration? Document a brainstorming session? It's all there, both natively and via extensions.

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Choose how often you want to be notified via email of updates to the Waves in which you participate.

See Christopher Dawson's Googling Google blog for the full report: Google Wave is back!

New extensions do a better job of automating tasks based on input and can be coded and live anywhere on the Web, not just Google App Engine.

See Christopher Dawson's Googling Google blog for the full report: Google Wave is back!

Notice the more granular access rights that you can grant to various participants.

See Christopher Dawson's Googling Google blog for the full report: Google Wave is back!

Improved editor, easier adds and removes of participants, and easier navigation to unread Wave elements turn meeting agendas into useful planning and feedback mechanisms.

See Christopher Dawson's Googling Google blog for the full report: Google Wave is back!

Graphics, documents, polls and other robots are now more easily embedded in waves.

See Christopher Dawson's Googling Google blog for the full report: Google Wave is back!