Google Wave is a personal communication and collaboration tool announced by Google at the 2009 Google I/O conference. It is a web-based service designed to merge e-mail, IM, wiki and social networking, boasting automated translation between 40 languages, as well as robust spell/grammar check and numerous extensions.

And you can extend it even further with the Google Wave APIs. Go to wave.google.com for a developer preview. Also, be sure to check out ninjaforge.com for Ninja Wave, a Joomla! extension for embedding Google Wave on your Joomla! website.

Ninja Forge is a subscription based Joomla! extension web site. They call themselves the “first and premier Open Source Extension Club”, providing cutting edge quality, trust, support, freedom and technology. Stian Didriksen is a 19-year-old developer, busy pushing the envelope – you may want to follow at @stipsan at his site, ninjaforge.com.

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