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Can't wait more to see the algorithm behind Google Wave. It may have failed(?) as a commercial product, but as a technical product it was kick-ass.

What algorithm in particular? I don't want to imply that getting everything to actually work is a small feat, but I wasn't aware of anything especially clever going on...

The core algorithm is called "Operational Transformation". See http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/understanding-and-applyi...

That's actually really cool, thanks!

I found this paper to be really helpful as well, which is linked to from that article: ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/JupiterWin.ps

Doesn't look like rocket science. Also using XML is just... hrmmm

I'm not sure there's anything that technically impressive that came out of wave.

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