Google has announced their new Google Wave, an online collaboration tool by the same people that came up with Google Maps.

According to blogger Reuven Cohen at ElasticVapor:

“Busy day for cloud interoperability related news. Google just announced a new service called Google Wave, described as an open communication and collaboration platform & protocol based on hosted XML documents (called waves) supporting concurrent modifications and low-latency updates. In simple terms Google Wave can be thought of like an ajax spreadsheet over XMPP. “

Check out his entire article at: http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/05/google-jump-into-cloud-wave-ajax-over.html

G.ho.st is a quasi-OS for The Cloud, and it’s been reported they want developers to write apps on top of their technology, using The Cloud instead of desktops.

Read Write Web describes the G.ho.st services as:

A fabulous, ambitious virtual operating system, G.ho.st launched at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco two years ago. The browser-based computers allow users to leave their desktop, files, and applications in the Amazon-hosted cloud and access them from just about any place or device with an internet connection.

It’s great to see The Cloud as a more useful platform for productivity, and obviously divShare looks to help lead the charge in this.  See the entire story on this at: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ghost_virtual_computing_adds_api.php