Tumblr, a microblogging platform which allow you to post text, links, images, quotes, audio and videos to your tumblelog. Same as Twitter, you can follow other users and see their posts on your dashboard.

Few weeks back, we posted an article about Tumblr themes and how designers are coming up with new design themes as Tumblr popularity is increasing. Today we will share some  “Beautiful Well Designed Tumblr Themes” to enhance your tumblog.

1. Lost & Found

2. Postcards

3. Rockstar

4. The Captain’s Log

5. Scribble

6. Solaris Theme

7. Backburner Theme

8. Sonic Theme

HTML is the simple markup language of the World Wide Web used to create hypertext documents and CSS is a stylesheet language which is used to format these hypertext documents.

HTML5 and CSS3 are the next big improvements which are still under development. Many designers and developers have already implemented new features from HTML5 and CSS3, which are supported in most browsers, on their websites and many are still experimenting with them.

In this “Ultimate Collection of HTML5 and CSS3 Resources“, you will find articles and tutorials covered on different websites. Demos and examples are also included in this list. I tried my best to collect all useful and related information to put at one place. Still if you find something missing, kindly share it in the comments below.

Articles

HTML5 Basics

The next iteration of HTML has been met with excitement by some, loathing by others and confusion/fear by everyone else. Love it or hate it, HTML 5 will soon define how you build websites.

Get Ready For HTML 5

With support in Chrome, Firefox 3.5, Opera, and Safari, HTML 5 is coming at you like a runaway train. Here are some suggestions to help you prepare to get on board rather than be left at the platform or tied to the tracks.

Structural Tags In HTML5

The HTML5 specification has added quite a few interesting and useful tags for structuring your markup. For a majority of everyday uses, these tags will replace many of our typical div entries from our code. So let’s dig in.

Power Of HTML5 And CSS3

Web designers can do some pretty cool stuff with HTML 4 and CSS 2.1. We can structure our documents logically and create information-rich sites without relying on archaic, table-based layouts. As we continue to push the boundaries of existing languages, HTML 5 and CSS 3 are quickly gaining popularity, revealing their collective power with some exciting new design possibilities.

My Top 5 HTML Coding Preferences

Every coder has his/her own coding style based on personal preferences. Not all of us markup the document in a same way. Some decide to choose one element while other coders prefer some other solution.

Semantics In HTML 5

HTML 5, the W3C’s recently redoubled effort to shape the next generation of HTML, has, over the last year or so, taken on considerable momentum. It is an enormous project, covering not simply the structure of HTML, but also parsing models, error-handling models, the DOM, algorithms for resource fetching, media content, 2D drawing, data templating, security models, page loading models, client-side data storage, and more.

The Future Of HTML5

The HTML 5 spec was originally called “Web Applications 1.0″. Most of the attention has been on the new markup elements, but in his talk he takes a further look at the applications side of the spec …

Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today!

There have been many changes to the HTML 5 landscape since my colleague, Lachlan Hunt’s 2007 article on A List Apart, A Preview of HTML 5. Let’s see what’s happening in the world of HTML 5.

Preparing for HTML5 With Semantic Class Names

This is a brief introduction to the new structural elements in the HTML 5 Working Draft, and how to use semantic class names in HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 markup that correspond to the names of those structural elements. By doing so, you’ll get a head start in understanding how to use the new elements and also go some way towards using plain old semantic HTML if you’re not already.

When Can I Use

Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies. Several features have not yet been fully defined, and thus have only experimental support.

HTML5 Again

If you’re a front-end developer, I want you to do me a favor. I want you to pick a project and mark it up in HTML5. I’m not going to ask you to code a game experience inside the canvas element or replicate a YouTube video player or do anything really, except challenge you to declare semantic information about your content blocks.

Designing A Blog With HTML5

Much of HTML 5′s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to investigate these, let’s look at marking up a blog.

5 Techniques To Acquaint You With CSS 3

CSS is a well-known, widely used language to style websites. With version three in the works, many time-saving features will be implemented. Although only the most modern browsers currently support these effects, it’s still fun to see what’s around the corner! In this tutorial I’ll show you five techniques.

Web Designer’s Checklist

Very useful checklist of CSS3 Properties, CSS3 Selectors, HTML5 Web Applications, HTML5 Embedded Content and HTML5 Web Forms

CSS Code Structure For HTML 5: Some Useful Guidelines

In this post I want to illustrate some useful guidelines about how to implement a well organized CSS code structure in view of introduction of HTML 5 markup language. They are not general rules but simple suggestions you can follow in order to improve the readability, manageability, and general organization of CSS code.

How To Get HTML5 Working In IE And Firefox 2

HTML 5 may be the latest and greatest technology, but some browsers don’t have native support for the new semantic elements. Let’s momentarily forget about the really sexy functionality, like full control over the <video> element, and just focus on getting the elements rendered.

Building Web Pages With HTML 5

Depending on who you ask, HTML 5 is either the next important step toward creating a more semantic web or a disaster that’s going to trap the web in yet another set of incomplete tags and markup soup.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About HTML5

So CSS3 lets you have rounded corners, and HTML5 gives you <header> and <footer> elements. Big whoop. Sometimes it can be hard to get excited about what’s being added to the core web technologies, but Ernest Delgado is here to change that.

Cheat Sheets

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

In the spirit of the upcoming change, Smashing Magazine decided to release a handy printable HTML 5 Cheat Sheet that lists all currently supported tags, their descriptions, their attributes and their support in HTML 4. The cheat sheet was created by Veign.com and released exclusively for the readers of Smashing Magazine.

HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet

This new HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet is an update of HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet that was published for the first time some months ago on old blog (http://woork.blogspot.com).

HTML5 Id/Class Name Cheat Sheet

Drawn from the fine work of Andy Clarke (Marlarkey) and Jon Tan(gerine), esq.

Tutorials

Introduction to HTML5

Are you interested in HTML 5 and what’s coming down the pipeline but haven’t had time to read any articles yet? I’ve put together an educational “Introduction to HTML 5” video that goes over many of the major aspects of this new standard,

Google’s HTML 5 Work: What’s Next?

Learn about new features in HTML 5 that enhance and enrich the web experience. Learn about new features in HTML 5, how they’ll be supported in Chrome, and our latest plans for new functionality. The web browser is quickly evolving into a rich platform with access to all the capabilities that your computer has to offer.

Features You Want Desperately But Still Can’t Use

As the HTML5 effort reaches its first big milestone — feature completeness — browsers are starting to implement it. It will be years before you can rely on HTML5 support when writing Web pages and applications, but you can start to experiment today to get a feel of what the new standard offers. This talk will explore some of the most recent implementations of HTML5 features.

HTML5 + CSS3 = Awesome

HTML5 is the next version of the web markup standard. New features include new tags, offline dbs, and geolation aware browsers. CSS3 is the next generation styling language. Together, they make will make the web a great experience.

Create Windows 7 Start Menu Using CSS3 Only

Janco is fascinated with how much you can do with so little using CSS3. Many user interface elements that require images in order to have appropriate visual appearance now can be styled only with CSS3. In order to prove that Janco assigned himself a task to create Windows 7 start menu only with CSS3 (and some icons).

HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

HTML 5 is the next major version of HTML. It introduces a bunch of new elements that will make our pages more semantic. This will make it a lot easier for search engines and screenreaders to navigate our pages, and improve the web experience for everyone

Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template

Changes do not come from nowhere. The early adopters are already using what we are going to use day-to-day a few years from now. One of these technologies is HTML5 – the new version of the fundamental language of the web.

Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

While it is true HTML5 and CSS3 are both a work in progress and is going to stay that way for some time, there’s no reason not to start using it right now.

CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

With version three of CSS, many exciting features will be implemented. CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Many time-saving rules are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image ,multi-column layout, etc…

Quick Tip: Learning About HTML5 Local Storage

In this video quick tip, we’re going to build a working, though very basic, to-do list in just a minute or two. Thanks to HTML5′s local storage, we can make advanced browsers “remember” what we type, even after the browser is closed or is refreshed.

Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms

Here we’re going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you’ve read this article.

Touch The Future: Create An Elegant Website With HMTL 5 And CSS3

Five macro-steps to build an effective website using brain, pencil, paper, Photoshop, HTML and CSS. But technology doesn’t stop, luckily, and we have other two great allies for the future to design better website: HTML 5 and CSS3.

Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5

HTML5 is definitely the flavor of the month, with everyone in the design community getting excited about its release. In this tutorial we’ll get a taste of what’s to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects.

CSS3 Gradient Buttons

In this tutorial, nickla show you how to put the CSS gradient feature in a good practical use. The buttons are scalable based on the font-size. The button size can be easily adjusted by changing the padding and font-size values. The best part about this method is it can be applied to any HTML element such as div, span, p, a, button, input, etc.

12 Excellent CSS3 Button And Menu Techniques

HTML5 and CSS3 Demos & Exampels

HTML5 Canvas

HTML5 and CSS3 Experiments

HTML5 Readiness

CSS3 Previews

HTML5 and CSS3 Templates

HTML5 Video Player

Sublime Video – HTML5 Video Player

Projekktor – HTML5 WebTV and Video Player

Video For Everybody

HTML5 Video & Media Javascript Library

HTML5 Media

Tools

• CSS3 Generator
• CSS3 Please
• CSS3 Gradient Generator
• Border Radius
• Cool Tools & Toys For Web Developers
• Widget Pad

Useful Information & Other Resources

• Dev W3C
• The WhatWG Blog
• Wikipedia – HTML5
• HTML5 Gallery
• Less Framework
• HTML5 Sites
• HTML5 Video
• 52 Framework
• 101 Best HTML5 Sites
• Dive Into HTML5
• HTML5 Doctor
• Simon Pieters
• 52 Framework
• Introducing HTML5
• HTML5 Pocketbook
• HTML5 Tutorial

Tumblr is increasingly growing in popularity, and as it does so too does the number of designers creating and sharing cool new tumblr themes. This post brings together 20 examples of the best themes available, perfect examples of the class and style that can be brought to a Tumblr account. Many of the themes below come ready-made to be both visually beautiful and totally functional, but can also be customised to meet users’ requirements and taste.

1. Nigredo

Nigredo is a simply stylish theme designed by Redfield. White text on a black background with a left-aligned sidebar offers an elegant blogging platform. The theme is customisable, with the option of switching to black text on a white ground.

2. Fluid

Fluid is currently one of the most popular Tumblr themes around. It’s easy to see why it has so much appeal, with the sparkling soft focus light touches, nice coloration and great use of transparency achieving just the right contrast between text and background.

3. Mac Envy

Mac Envy takes its design inspiration straight from the iPhone interface, a perfect Tumblr theme for Mac fanatics.

4. Vertigo

Saul Bass was one of the most important American graphic designers of the 20th Century, famed for his work on film titles and movie posters. This theme is based around the stunning title sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, with typography and graphical touches inspired by Bass’s iconic animation work.

5. Terminal Flashback

This theme employs the cool retro chic of late 1980s and early 1990s computer terminal interfaces, with single-column acid green text on a black background.

6. Futura

This theme focuses on Paul Renner’s Futura typeface; the crisp design has a modern, airy aesthetic.

7. Munich

The Munich theme is reminiscent of the German Modernist design of the early 20th Century, with attractively balanced typography, composition, and colour scheme against a dark page.

8. Penguin Classics Recycled

In 1935, publisher Allen Lane was at Exeter railway station with nothing to read during his journey to London. The collection of paperbacks the station shop had on offer proved such a severe disappointment that Lane resolved to start his own series of quality titles with distinctive covers, and Penguin Books was born. This theme is styled on the classic paperback books, adhering to Lanes mantra that ‘good design is no more expensive than bad‘.

9. Strict

Strict is a light minimalist theme with clean typographical design.

10. Paper Walls

This theme has a refined vintage feel with subtly striped background, torn paper page layout and ink drawing detailing creating an old-fashioned intimacy.

11. Dark Lights

This is a dark theme with great use of light grey text on a muted background, the typography offering a cool contemporary aesthetic.

12. Transparent Theme

A sense of depth, blurred dark colours and measured use of transparency make this a particularly good-looking theme.

13. I Am Sofa King

I Am Sofa King has very strongly designed layout with content laid out in a single column. The default setting is simple but effective with white text, black boxes and white background, but the colours are customisable, as is the coding.

14. Ultralite

Sharp minimalist typographical design makes Ultralite a perfect theme for personal text and photo blogs.

15. Esquire Theme

This theme is styled around the design and art direction of the US edition of Esquire magazine.

16. iBlack

iBlack is a sleek theme taking its inspiration directly from Apple’s characteristic branding and applications.

17. Cheerful Girl!!

Cheerful Girl!! Is a crisp theme with a refreshingly juicy pink and white colour scheme.

18. PhotoBoard

PhotoBoard is a theme that offers a beautiful way of presenting photographs. The images can be arranged with two or four per row, and the design creates the effect of pictures attached to a cork pin board. The images’ information is revealed with mouse rollovers.

19. Helvetica

This is another theme designed around a classic font, in this case Helvetica, the beautiful typeface created by Swiss designer Max Miedinger in 1957. It’s a nice and bright design with the focus on readability and accessibility.

20. Adaptation

This theme has a strikingly bold design with great text layout in black and white, against a truly eye-catching deep red background. Adaptation is a great choice for users who want a bright, modernist blogging platform that oozes confidence and style.

I was going to use the adjective essential in the title rather than useful but no one book is essential when it comes to learning web design. There are thousands of online tutorials to help you master the profession and there are dozens if not hundreds of books on all aspects of web-based creativity. Not having access to any one book will stop you from learning your desired skill but some books will greatly assist you in the process. 10 of these such books are below.

1. CSS Web Site Design by Eric A. Meyer

Eric has been involved in online activity since the early 90s and has managed to carve a position for himself as one of the main authorities on CSS – he’s so important to web design that he even has his own Wikipedia entry! (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Meyer)

CSS Web Site Design is part of the Lynda.com Hands-on training series and was first published in 2007.

If you are looking for a resource on learning CSS then Meyer’s Lynda.com publication will guide you through all the main rules of CSS 2.1 including typography, layout, margin and borders and styling for print. The book also comes with a CD-ROM that contains 10 video tutorials and all the exercise files.

Other books by Meyer include Smashing CSS, CSS: The Definitive Guide and the CSS Pocket Reference.

2. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Developers by Steve Souders

Steve Souders is probably the world’s authority on the burgeoning discipline of frontend engineering. He really gained this reputation while being Yahoo! Chief Performance officer and has since then spoken at major conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo and OSCON as well as lecturing at Stanford University on this subject.

If you are serious about providing faster page load times on your sites – and you should be as Google now considers this essential – then High Performance Web Sites is a book that you have to read.

It covers all aspects of web page optimisation including how to make fewer HTTP requests, compression, expires headers, reducing DNS lookups, minifying JavaScript and configuring Etags.

3. PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites by Larry Ullman

Ignore the crap title – there is no PHP 6 with 5.3.1 being the latest version – and concentrate on the content written by Larry Ullman who is also responsible for QuickStart guides to C, C++, Adobe Air, Ruby and Ajax. Without doubt this book has assisted thousands of people in their quest to learn PHP as is testified by the four and a half stars out of five as voted for by 61 reviewers on amazon.co.uk.

Many web designers start to become interested in PHP after first mastering CSS and HMTL. Realising that some knowledge of this language is invaluable for creating CMS templates, they then look for helpful tutorials.

It’s best to grab any learning resource at all when it comes to grappling with PHP because if you don’t come from a programming background it’s a steep learning curve.

This covers everything you would expect from such a book: an introduction to MySQL, error handling and debugging, cookies and sessions, security, regular expressions and using forms.

4. Don’t Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug

Alright so this book always makes these types of lists but there is good reason for that: it remains, ten years after it was first published, the best introduction to usability in web site design.

That author Krug had already worked in this area for years at major online companies such as Apple, Netscape and AOL, and the book was a way of solidifying his knowledge into a digestible format for all to use.

Not only is the advice spot on but the means of presenting his message by using cartoons lets the reader breeze through the 196 pages in the course of one afternoon.

I bet Steve never thought that Don’t Make Me Think! would have such a massive impact as it has done but lets just state this – web designer, if you haven’t read it then you haven’t lived.

5. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan

This book has been republished multiple times by O’Reilly Media since 1996 and with good reason as it still remains one of the key texts when it comes to learning the frontend language JavsScript.

Weighing in at a massive 1032 pages David intended this book to be both a learning guide and a reference.

Programmers often look down their nose at JavaScript and disparagingly refer to is as a scripting, rather then a programming language; however, as the author states in the introduction:

“JavaScript is a full-featured programming language, as complex as any and more complex than some. Programmers who attempt to use JavaScript for nontrivial tasks often find the process frustrating if they do not have a solid understanding of the language.”

If you don’t have any knowledge of JavaScript then put it on your Things To Learn In 2010 list as it is becoming essential as understanding CSS or HTML

6. Learning jQuery 1.3 by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg

jQuery is a ubiquitous presence across the web and it’s a feature of a wide range of web sites.

Created by John Resig in 2006 it is today the most popular JavaScript library with even Microsoft and Nokia announcing that they plan to bundle jQuery into their platforms.

Much of the reason for jQuery’s success is that it is just so god-damn easy to use as the creator stated in a recent interview: “This simplicity is all throughout jQuery. The API is simple, the good documentation makes it simple to start using it, and the covering up of browser bugs makes it simple to keep using it.” (source: http://www.html.it/articoli/johnresig/index.html

Packt, like O’Reilly and Lynda.com, is a publishing company that specialises in web technology and this book, released in February 2009, is one of eight jQuery guides in their series.

The authors run through selectors, events, DOM manipulation, AJAX, form manipulation, plugins and they finish with various examples of the script in action.

7. Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Hands-On Training by Todd Perkins

I hold my hands up here as I’m recommending a book I haven’t read. My version of Flash hands-on training is for MX 2004 and is written by Rosanna Yeung, but this CS3 edition is by Todd Perkins. However, all lynda.com books are of the highest standard, and written with amazingly loving care by their respective authors. If the guide to CS3 is a good as that for MX 2004 then expect a professional introduction to Adobe’s software.

Although Flash is a niche skill it still remains today the foremost animation web tool and is set to keep that position for the foreseeable future.

As with most hands-on training books it comes with a CD-ROM attached with a series of video tutorials that are easy to follow.

8. Drupal 6 Themes by Ric Shreves

Drupal is a great CMS to use but it can be a real challenge to get to grips with the administration section let alone the actual dynamic code that it is written upon.

As has been noted elsewhere, there are countless quality free Joomla and WordPress themes to download and use across the net, but very few decent Drupal themes.

If you are serious about Drupal then sooner rather then later you will need to create your own theme rather than rely on somebody else’s creation.

Drupal 6 Themes should provide you with most of the information necessary to carry out this task although some basic knowledge of PHP would be of use when tackling this book.

9. Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders

This was published in 2009 and was intended as an extension to 2007′s High Performance Web Sites. Again, Souders is the author but chapters are also written by Ben Galbraith of Mozilla, Stoyan Stefonov of Yahoo and Google software engineer Tony Gentilcore.

The most important chapter for everyday web designers is that about how to effectively optimise images which doesn’t just look at the theory but also recommends some valuable tools.

The section on CSS examines how to write efficient code while there are multiple chapters on the correct use of JavaScript in a website.

10. PHP 5 Advanced by Larry Ullman

PHP is an expansive language and one that takes years to thoroughly learn. Once you’ve got past the initial headaches and confusion and you are starting to use it to create actual working forms and applications then Larry Ullman’s guide for advanced users will be useful.

Building on the knowledge he presented in PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites, Ullman looks at more complex database and security concepts and techniques as well as introducing the reader to Object Orientated Programming (OOP).

OOP is not for the faint hearted but if you want to use PHP to its maximum potential you’ll need to tackle this approach rather than just relying on procedural programming.

What books have helped you become a better web designer or developer?

2009 was a great year and we hope every body have enjoyed this year. Different topics were discussed in this year but Design Inspiration and Tutorials were the two hot topics around different websites in 2009. Throughout year there were great articles posted related to design inspiration and tutorials. We learned a lot of new stuff from these resources and expecting much more amazing stuff in 2010.


Below we have compiled a list of “Design Inspiration, Tutorials and Resources” for our readers. We have tried to bring Best of the Best from the year 2009 in this list. We must have missed a lot of resources and expect from our readers to mention it in the comments. We will try to keep this list updated if the link is worth of putting in the list.

Thank you for all your support in 2009 and we wish you all 2010 a very successful year.

Design Inspiration

55 Excellent WordPress Site Design for Design Inspiration

50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration

100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design

16 Popular Website Redesigns Of 2009

65 Creative And Stylish Footer Designs of 2009

60 Humorous Print Advertisements to Tickle Your Bones

45+ Creative and Refreshing WordPress Designs

45+ Inspiring Examples of Vintage in Web Design

34 Places to Get Design Inspiration – Online and Off

Resources

Smashing Highlights 2009

The Most Popular Posts of 2009

The Best Photoshop Resources of 2009

50 Best Web Design Blog Posts In 2009

The 15 Best Articles for Designers in 2009

69 Coolest Web Apps of 2009

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009

Designs of the Year: 2009

Best of 2009 in the Blogging Industry

Best WordPress Themes Websites Every Blogger Should Bookmark

Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques

Best Logo Design Resources

Top 50 Best CSS Articles and Resources

Tutorials

49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009

The 30 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009

The Best Vector Tutorials of 2009

Best WordPress Tutorials of 2009

Best Collection of CSS Rounded Corners Tutorials

Best Photoshop Website Layout Tutorials of 2009

13 Tutorials to Help You Grow Your Blog Readership Next Year

WordPress Website Design Process for IT-IS Ltd

A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials

Photoshop.com is your free online photo editing and sharing resource. Upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.

Also it is the perfect place to upload, share and store your favourite videos. We support the most popular file formats. Use the UPloader App for videos up to 2GB and upload them in a snap. Use email to easily share videos with friends and family. Enjoy the full playback and slideshow support by uploading your videos today!

Step 1 – Upload

Upload photos and videos from virtually any device, store up to 2 GB on us, and know that we’ll never, ever shrink your files.
And that’s good thing.

Step 2 – Organize

Say goodbye to lost photos and videos – find them fast with tags. Then sit back and enjoy reliving all the fun with your albums and clips.

Step 3 – Edit

Add creative juice. Season to taste.
Spice up your photo’s looks with a touch up, tint, and trim. Try it yourself

Step 4 – Share

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Share your photos and video clips in galleries. Expand your reach with an easy drag and drop to transfer photos to Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa and other sites.

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Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.

What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Learn More About Google Wave