Google Wave – web based real time communication platform
During the Google I/O keynote, Google utilized the opportunity to launch its new communication platform called Google Wave. We all know that Google likes to surprise the world by developing application that changes the rules of the game. This time around they have raised the bar further by launching Google Wave as an open source application. Earlier anyone outside of Google never knew what they are up to or what’s next, but this time around they have launched as open source and the lucky few who got to attend the Google I/O Keynote will all get Google Wave accounts to play with and give feedback. You can view the detailed video where Google’s VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra shared the vision behind Google Wave and where the immense possibility with HTML 5 standards to do all those cool stuff within your browser.
The way I look at it – Google Wave will provide single and integrated interface for Email, Chat, Social Media, collaborative communication, knowledge management, sharing of information and various productivity tools. It will enable Real Time communication right from your browser. Real time communication is the next big thing to happen on the internet and Google wants to take early lead by having an army of open source developers helping them build wonderful gadgets, widgets, extensions using Google Wave API.
If Wave gets acceptance level that Gmail has today then I am sure that it will change the Social media communication landscape forever.
What all can I do with Google Wave using its single interface:
- Emails – They prefer to call it a wave as according to Google Email is dead
- IM – In a new Wave and also within an email conversation
- Micro blogging
- RSS reader
- Documents sharing and collaborative editing
- Project Management, Task allocation, and measurement (extent not knows as yet)
- Google Maps
- Games
- Post articles on my blog , receive blog comments and reply blog comments
- Social and Business networking
- Information aggregator
- Let me not forget – Search
- And much more as going forward individuals will find newer better ways to use Wave to communicate across applications.
Google Wave Features: Following are the ones that appealed to me.
- Real-time communication – Yes it surely is real time transmits character by character.
- Embedding – Google wave can be embedded on any website or blog or any online
- Extension – Just like Firefox and Word press developers will be able to develop a lot of extensions
- You can create your own wikis within Google Wave by starting a new wave and allowing multiple users to edit at the same time while managing the complete authoring rules.
- Drag and Drop – Each and every feature right from Images, Videos, and documents can be used by individual and a group. You do not have to upload anything anywhere. There is no upload functionality.
- Natural language processing and translation – you have to see it to believe it.
- Playback- watch conversation history in a playback mode.
The best thing I liked about Google Wave is that it has been released as open source and as a result anyone can develop a Wave service and have them interact with their own or with Google wave. This will enable effective communication across the web and we the end users surely tend to gain from this wonderful application.
Companies like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Slideshare, and YouTube (these companies are just an example)representing various aspects of social media will have to rethink their strategy to create/protect their own niche by developing something even better or adopt wave as a part of their strategy. Will this hold true 6 months later after its released, you guess is probably as good as mine.
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My goodness. My final project in school is exactly like this!!! :D