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Google Unveils Quick-Message Platform: Twitter Competition In A Browser?

Google Wave, a new real-time open-source tool that operates in the browser, could provide instant competition for Twitter. Lars Rasmussen and his brother developed the application -- the same two who developed Google Maps. The plan is to release the communications and collaboration tool later this year.

Google unveiled the Wave at the I/O conference. The tool allows people to communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. One person creates the Google Wave and others add to it by inserting a reply or edit. People can concurrently add rich-text, and nearly instantly, others see the message in the browser. Rasmussen describes it as similar to instant messaging.

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