Etymology
The science fiction television series Firefly provided the inspiration for the project's name. In the series, a wave is an electronic communication, often consisting of a See more

During the initial launch of Google Wave, invitations were widely sought by users and were sold on auction sites. Those who received invitations and decided to test Google Wave could not communicate with their contacts on their regular email accounts. The … See more

Google Wave was accepted by the Apache Software Foundation's Incubator program under the project name Apache Wave. The Google Wave Developer blog was updated with news of the change on December 6, 2010. A Wave Proposal page with details on the … See more

Google Wave provides federation using an extension of Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the free Wave Federation Protocol. … See more

Google Wave was a new Internet communications platform. It was written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface used the Google Web Toolkit. Google Wave worked like … See more

On August 4, 2010, Google announced Wave would no longer be developed as a stand-alone product due to a lack of interest. Google's statement surprised many in the … See more

Google Wave is extensible through an application programming interface (API). It provides extensions in the form of Gadgets and Robots, and is embeddable by dropping interactive windows into a given wave on external sites, such as blog sites.
The last version of … See more