As mentioned in my last post, Google has a new tool coming out later this year for communication and collaboration on the Web. Google Wave is a combination of all the technologies that were introduced to us in the past decade. It enables real-time conversation similar to instant messaging to a degree where you can introduce a third person into the conversation who can play back a previous conversation that was ongoing before their arrival.
According to Google, "A wave is equal parts conversation and document." They are using the conversational technology introduced in Gmail in this brand new medium where collaboration and work become more synergistic. A wave is shared where any participant involved in this conversation can actively contribute to the final product/conversation/result conclusion.
Google has made the wave live, meaning it is an instant transmission of data as you speak it, similar to a phone conversation but now it’s text based, and it’s even faster than instant messaging as you can see the text being typed by the other person as they press the keys.
Google has introduced several extensions such as Linky, Mapy, and Searchy, which drop in results from those media on the fly. Linky will activate a selected text to make it a link as it detects what is typed, Mapy inserts a map in the place of a selected text or an address, and Searchy plugs in the links from a searched item. And this is just the beginning. In the demo, the Twitter extension was also enabled, which lets you check your Twitter feed from within the client. Waves can also be integrated with blogs to enable commenting on blog posts from within the Wave client.
With this brand new platform, which is something that we've all have been waiting for but didn’t know it, Google has done it again. Google Wave will be available later this year and they've opened up the door for developers to come in with their ideas to build tools based on Wave.
Pretty soon, we'll be saying good-bye to email and hello to Wave...
-- Contributed by Junaid Ahmed
According to Google, "A wave is equal parts conversation and document." They are using the conversational technology introduced in Gmail in this brand new medium where collaboration and work become more synergistic. A wave is shared where any participant involved in this conversation can actively contribute to the final product/conversation/result conclusion.
Google has made the wave live, meaning it is an instant transmission of data as you speak it, similar to a phone conversation but now it’s text based, and it’s even faster than instant messaging as you can see the text being typed by the other person as they press the keys.
Google has introduced several extensions such as Linky, Mapy, and Searchy, which drop in results from those media on the fly. Linky will activate a selected text to make it a link as it detects what is typed, Mapy inserts a map in the place of a selected text or an address, and Searchy plugs in the links from a searched item. And this is just the beginning. In the demo, the Twitter extension was also enabled, which lets you check your Twitter feed from within the client. Waves can also be integrated with blogs to enable commenting on blog posts from within the Wave client.
With this brand new platform, which is something that we've all have been waiting for but didn’t know it, Google has done it again. Google Wave will be available later this year and they've opened up the door for developers to come in with their ideas to build tools based on Wave.
Pretty soon, we'll be saying good-bye to email and hello to Wave...
-- Contributed by Junaid Ahmed
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