By Brett Winterford, itnews
The Sydney-based brothers that built Google Maps have released to developers a new tool called Google Wave that has the potential to succeed e-mail, instant messaging and collaboration tools.
Google Wave (see screenshot gallery right), announced at Google's IO developer event in San Francisco, is an Ajax-based communications tool hosted in the cloud that blurs the boundaries between an e-mail message, instant message and rich-text document.
The technology was built by Danish-born and US-educated brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, now based in Sydney's Google office.
The Rasmussen brothers were also the driving force behind the team that invented the mapping technology behind Google Maps.
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