web-based e-mail service

The free tool, offered by Google on Thursday during the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's annual conference for software developers, runs in a web browser. It contains elements of e-mail, instant messaging, wikis and photo sharing. All this was done in effort to make online communication more dynamic. As Google hopes that tool simplifies the collaboration and opinion sharing among people. Google Wave will be available to the rest internet users later in this year.